Excited to be headed to #KaurnaCountry next week for #ESA2025 #EcologicalSocietyOfAustralia and to see heaps of cool talks!

If you're interested in if migratory birds can help plants shift to new climate ranges, then come check out mine on weds arvo!

#EcologyAustralia #BiodiversityOnTheBrink

We cover:
🔥 Key mechanisms that regulate how populations respond to fire regimes, shared across taxa.

🔥 Key fire-related functional traits.

🔥Trait expressions that make species populations more vulnerable, or resilient to fire regimes.

🔥Interactions between fire and other threatening processes.

The Mechanisms Through Which Fire Drives Population Change in Terrestrial Biota Understanding the mechanisms through which fire influences populations is necessary to protect species from fire regime change. We develop a cross-taxa framework that identifies mechanisms through wh...

🔥New Paper!🔥 from Julianna Santos,
@ltkelly.bsky.social @lluisbrotons.bsky.social @urbanfrogger.bsky.social @cristinaaponte.bsky.social , Lauren Ponisio, Stephen Mason, and David Keith!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

www.wilde-project.eu/news/restori...

AFE regularly updates our cultural fire resource page with resources regarding learning about cultural fire and how to develop respectful, equitable relationships with Indigenous fire practitioners, researchers, and tribal communities 🔥 Explore here: fireecology.org/cultural-fire

Do you have some exciting research related to plant responses and resilience to shifting fire regimes?

Consider submitting to this exciting Special Collection in @ausjbotany.bsky.social ! 🔥🌱

Restaurar el patrón natural de los fuegos ayudaría a conservar los ecosistemas y evitar incendios peligrosos Una revisión científica propone recuperar los patrones de incendios a través del renaturalización o ‘rewilding’ con el fin de mejorar la salud de los ecosistemas aprovechando que el fuego puede genera...

Incendios grandes están ardiendo en Francia y otras partes de Europa. Recuperar procesos naturales (como el papel de la fauna, los humanos, y ciertas perturbaciones) podría ayudarnos restorar patrones de fuegos beneficiosos @lluisbrotons.bsky.social @creaf.cat

theconversation.com/restaurar-el...

Can plants keep up with fire regime changes through evolution?

Our new paper is out in the July issue of @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

📖 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

with Hoffmann, Nitschke & @jgpausas.bsky.social
#fireecology #PlantBiology #ecoevo 🔥🌿🧬

We cover:
🔥 Key fire metrics used in ecological research to inform fire regime attributes, that can be energetic, temporal, or spatial
🔥 Demonstrate existing ambiguity
🔥 Suggest working definitions, and provide example applications of fire metrics based on ecological processes of interest.

We had noticed the murky ways that fire was being referenced and described, and the need for shared language for fire-related research in this time of global change.

We hope that this paper is useful to interpret, apply, and scale fire-related ecological knowledge across ecosystems and continents.

🔥 Hot off the press ! 🔥
Originally “sparked” from a conversation between @sarahmccg.bsky.social , Luke Collins , @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social , Meg Krawchuk and I. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm so glad that you enjoyed it! 😊 I'm a great fan of your work !

This is a very nice paper about restoring the ecological role of people that you might be interested in. It points to the role that people have within the trophic web and in the sustainment of ecological processes (rewilding). : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Investigating patterns of wildfire in Ireland and their correlation with regional and global trends in fire history In recent years a number of studies have suggested that trends in wildfire can be seen at a regional, national and global scale, and can be explained …

Great Q! Fire drives biodiversity in many parts of the world, including Europe. Lightning, people, and in some places even birds of prey, have lit fires and shaped resilient ecosystems for millennia. For example, this paper shows fire in the Irish Charcoal record in ~15,500BC tinyurl.com/thj5b9xt

Thanks Dylan 😊

👉How to recover natural processes gradually lost or altered in our systems to our advantage… nature can help. ‘Restoring fire regimes through rewilding’ @CurrentBiology @CREAF_ecologia @ctforestal @wildE_Europe t.co/o28K2BaGSr

From the re-introduction of herbivorous and hydrological engineers, to promoting mosaic burning, to relaxing fire suppression, strengthening important ecological processes is promising to restore fire regimes and enhance ecosystem function in many socio-ecological contexts worldwide.

We cover:
1) How fire regimes have been altered by recent pressures
2) Interactions between fire, dispersal, and trophic complexity
3) Approaches to define “restored” fire regimes
4) A general pathway for restoring fire regimes through ecological processes
5) Key challenges and opportunities

Fire patterns are altered in many places, threatening ecosystem function.

We need action to restore fire patterns, including trying new approaches.

We explore how recovering important ecological processes (known as rewilding in the Northern hemispheres), may be promising to restore fire patterns

Is there a potential to strengthen ecological processes as a way to restore fire regimes?

🔥 🔥 New Paper Out! 🔥 🔥

@adrianregos.bsky.social @bakxbakx.bsky.social @fmoreira65.bsky.social @lluisbrotons.bsky.social and our other co-authors explore this

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Group picture taken at the Barcelona Natural History Museum. The research group is standing at the stairs below a whale skeleton

Last week, @ecolandlab.bsky.social met at the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona! @icornitologia.bsky.social

A group of wonderful and dedicated people who work to make this world a better place 🦉🌳📈🐦

NEW EPISODE of #FireEcology Chats! 🔥🎙️ Bob Keane joins Chika Tada, @ellapouton.bsky.social, and Alexander Filkov to discuss this unique experimental model that tests the fire component of plant species. #SNFECO
Listen here: fireecology.org/feco-podcast...

Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival - Fire Ecology Background In fire-prone environments, some species store their seeds in canopy cones (serotiny), which provides seeds protection from the passage of fire before stimulating seed release. However, the...

Fabulous Chika Tada led research on fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival in Fire Ecology. Alex Filkov, Chika, and i spoke to @afe-fireecology.bsky.social
about it. If you have a spare 10 minutes, listen to hear more about Chika's thesis.

article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Grampians National Park is still burning – here’s what we can expect will survive and recover Much of the Grampians National Park (Gariwerd) has already burned this summer – and the fire is not out yet. What does this mean for the animals that live there?

theconversation.com/grampians-na...

Had a fun chat with Amelia from @funecology.bsky.social about research from my PhD. Listen to it here! 😊

Looking forward to contributing to the wildE Green Shoots webinars !

5 of us from @creaf.cat will be delivering a 2-part series on the role of disturbance in rewilding and the impact of rewilding on biodiversity.

Find out more and register for the webinars: bit.ly/3C169rR

A fab way to end the year and bring in the new 🌱 !

Figure 4. Cumulative density distributions of the number of inflorescences produced over lifetime by individual Lavandula latifoliaplants

Have you ever followed the lifespans of a perennial plant? @cmhmaliani.bsky.social followed 128 plants over 38 yrs & showed that certain lifetime trajectories had fitness advantages!
Published in a "low-impact" journal @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social
www.revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...
🧪🌍🌿🌾🌱

A city based river frontage. Sky scrapers are in the background. In the foreground, there is a vegetated island. A black Swan is nesting.

Cool to see the City of Melbourne Birrarung floating wetlands project as part of @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESA2024 . These islands were recently installed to support urban biodiversity...Spot the black Swan!

Excited to be heading back to Wurundjeri Country for #ESAus2024
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
in jus a blink of an eye. Looking forward to learning and catching up with folks! I'll be presenting Thursday arvo in the Wildfire Futures symposium: Interdisciplinary challenges and Opportunities.