This week we hosted @hcadd.bsky.social at the Nottingham Pollen Lab @nottspollen.bsky.social ! Lots of great discussions about present and future work to unpack 🔥, human activities and climate change through past millennia in Australia and beyond.

Homemade pistachio cake post-seminar was delicious!

Research Associate in Environmental Time-Series Modelling Position Details: Fixed term until March 2028 | full time (part-time arrangements considered) Academic Level A | $86,423 – $104,734 p.a. + 17% superannuation Location: Bedford Park, Kaurna Country Vie...

🌿 Postdoc Opportunity: Environmental Time-Series Modelling
📍 Location: Bedford Park / Kaurna Country
📅 Closing: 16 March 2025
💰 Salary: $86,423 – $104,734 + 17% super

For full details go to the the link below:

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Frontiers | Lessons from paleoclimates for recent and future climate change: opportunities and insights

Our new paper discusses the useful insights we can obtain from palaeoclimate research www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli... @wcrpclimate.bsky.social

Functional responses of Mediterranean flora to fire: A community‐scale perspective Fire influences plant traits differently at community versus species levels. Communities with low leaf nitrogen content. (LNC) and specific leaf area (SLA, not shown) are more fire-adapted, while lar...

Fire regimes in Mediterranean climates are shifting towards more frequent/severe events. Study shows strong links between fire, #plant traits & community response.🔥impacts traits like #seed mass, #leaf area, & wood density at the community level besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We find a long term change in vegetation towards heath dominated landscapes due to a reduction in nutrients, decreased rainfall and increased rainfall variability.
We also find a strong association between fire occurrence and biomass.

Looking for some holiday reading? Check out our latest synthesis of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Is) vegetation through the Holocene
doi.org/10.1002/jqs.... @michela-mariani.bsky.social @jtibby.bsky.social @meljleng.bsky.social

Spent a day in the dark yesterday opening a series of sediment cores from Lake Mungo in the Willandra world heritage area. Excited to see what these sediments will reveal about the past environments of the region

Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia Wildfires in forests globally have become more frequent and intense because of changes in climate and human management. Shrub layer fuels allow fire to spread vertically to forest canopy, creating hig...

⚠️Our new #research about past fuels for #fires 🌳 🔥 in southeastern #Australia is out today !

Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...