NEW EPISODE of #FireEcology Chats! 🔥Azaj Mahmud and Dylan Schwilk discuss predicting key aspects of shoot flammability and how that relates to flammability category rankings in the National Fire Protection Association’s Firewise program #SNFECO Listen here: https://fireecology.org/feco-podcast/ep90

Thanks for sharing, Tim. Me and Dr. Schwilk are planning to have a meeting with you very soon. We would like to discuss how to standardize and improve the measurement of ignitability and preheating of the barbecue.

Fuel architecture drives shoot flammability - Fire Ecology Background Understanding the relationship between plant traits and flammability is important for accurately predicting fire behavior and assessing fire hazard. However, plant flammability is multidime...

Fuel architecture drives shoot flammability

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New #FireEcology article 🚨 "Moisture content ranges in live Eucalyptus leaves vary among species and strongly affect ignitability" by William McNeice, Anne Griebel, Daniel W. Krix, Brad R. Murray, Matthias M. Boer, Brendan Choat, and Rachael H. Nolan #SNFECO 🔥Read it here: https://ow.ly/e5CB50YbQBM

September 2025 Globally,according to Japanese Meteorological Agency, had a temperature anomaly of +0.50C vs. 1991/2020 norm and ranked the 3rd hottest on record:
Top 5:
①2023 (+0.75℃)
②2024 (+0.63℃)
③ 2025 (+0.50℃)
④2015 (+0.33℃)
⑤2016 (+0.32℃)

Phenotypic rebuilding after fire: Understanding within‐individual variability in a Mediterranean shrub This paper shows that burned resprouting individuals of Anthyllis cytisoides differed significantly in phenotype, global cytosine methylation and the relationship between floral phenotype and fitness...

Fire alters the phenotype of individual plants, potentially through epigenetic mechanisms
Saiz-Blanco, @cmhmaliani.bsky.social et al @journalofecology.bsky.social
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🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🌾 botany #ecoevo #plantbiology traits @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es

Relationship between water status and shoot flammability. (A) The relationship between water potential and ignition delay time (s) across species (F1, 159 = 79.35, P < 0.001). (B) Relationship between LFMC and ignition delay time (s) across species (F1, 159 = 21.03, P < 0.001). (C) Relationship between water potential and heat release (kJ) across species (F1, 159 = 54.94, P < 0.001). (D) Relationship between LFMC and heat release (kJ) across species (F1, 159 = 105.1, P < 0.001). The lines indicate the trend of the response of ignition delay time (s) and heat release (kJ) to changing water status across species from the ANCOVA models.

🔥🌱From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches🌱🔥

Moisture loss rate drives the species-specific sensitivity of shoot flammability to water status
By @azajmahmud.bsky.social , Nursema Aktepe, @schwilk.org ilk.org‬doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...52

Illustration of methods used to assessed fuel characteristics (moisture, architecture, chemistry and mass) across a range of scales from individual plant organs or excised parts to communities and landscapes. Remote sensing, field measurements, and laboratory work are each suited to assessment of fuel characteristics at different but overlapping portions of this range, thereby creating opportunities to synthesize the “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches to understanding flammability. Art drawn by by Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte.

🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

From plant traits to fire behavior: Scaling issues in flammability studies

By Dylan Schwilk, Md. Azharul Alam, Nathan Gill et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience