Activity of (great desert skinks) at burrows in relation to plant cover and predators.

Increased predation where ground cover is reduced after severe wildfire is increasingly implicated as a factor causing decline of vulnerable prey populations. In arid central Australia, one species detrimentally affected by repeated wildfire is the great desert skink or (), a distinctive lizard of the central Australian arid zone that constructs and inhabits multi-entranced communal burrows. We aimed to test whether or predator activity at burrow entrances varied with cover and how respond to predator presence.