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Motivation letter in English.
Our forest plots in Estação Ecol Serra Araras burned by the 2024 wildfires. They look ‘messy’, but not degraded. They are in an early recovery stage: their canopy cover is dominated by palm Attalea speciosa and understorey with great diversity of herbs and shrubs #Resilience #Recovery
Learning so much about grasses flammability in our CerFogo long-term experimental site, Brasil. This one only burned a part of the plant despite having being ignited in the base, another burnrd totally except its trichomes (leaves hairs)…
a map of southern south America showing the location of burning fires with lots of red dots.
Patagonian wildfires show how denying climate change & pushing environmental destruction make the reality of climate change much worse. Threatening the destruction of trees that have been alive when the bronze age collapsed. @wwattribution.bsky.social www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
Are you a community ecologist interested in fire ecology? Come join our group! Postdoc position for project FEVER, that aims to understand how fire affects biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and biogeochemical cycles in Mediterranean forests @umramap.bsky.social.
⚠️ New paper out in Nature Ecology & Evolution 🌱
#Grasslands #SoilCarbon @natecoevo.nature.com
"Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.
Working with dendrometers or curious about dendrometer research? 🌱🌐🍁🌳
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We’re building a global community using dendrometers to study plant growth, stress, phenology & more.
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COP30 TEXT ANALYSIS: One way to read dense COP text is to focus on the verbs. These are helpfully italicised – and for good reason.
MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
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The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity - Repeto‐Deudero @jgpausas.bsky.social
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
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As the giants of the animal kingdom dwindle in numbers, a new way to assess ecosystem function sheds light on animals’ changing ecological contributions
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Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait-based approaches: An introduction
Here's the introduction to the Special Issue of the American Journal of Botany @botsocamerica.bsky.social
Thanks to all who contributed!
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Our new paper in Nature uses ecological energetics to track ten ecosystem functions of all birds and mammals in sub-Saharan Africa. It shows that the ecological power of African wildlife has declined by a third since pre-colonial times @natureportfolio.nature.com
With @ymalhi.bsky.social @lsantinieco.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social and other fantastic collaborators
New study from Ty Loft’s PhD thesis. We used an energetic approach to quantify, acr sub-Saharan Africa, how mammal- and bird-mediated ecosystem functions have changed. We found that overall trophic energy flows have decreased by more than one-third, but this change varies across biomes and land uses
Interested in learning about research into Cerrado fire ecology? Curious to hear about my views and experiences in plant sciences? Check out this new interview @botany.one
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Gracias @caordonezparra.bsky.social for the opportunity 😊
The NEOFire team has now finished another experimental fire campaign at Serra das Araras! This is the 8th consecutive year we burn savanna plots to investigate the effects of altered fire regimes on the Cerrado
@ioliverasmenor.bsky.social
@umramap.bsky.social
@ecioxford.bsky.social
@biology.ox.ac.uk
The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation have published their Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics, setting a great example for other academic societies. 🌏🧪🌐
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⚡Striking impacts on forests!⚡
Our perspective on how lightning impacts forest dynamics, through igniting fires in boreal forests and being a major cause of tree mortality in tropical forests.🔥🌳⚡ Led by Sander Veraverbeke @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
In this blog @h-zhang.bsky.social discusses how #Eco-Evolutionary Optimality theory can help address knowledge gaps at a site in #Ghana
@ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @jeaggu.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social
NEW! Journal of #Pyrogeography has been launched! We cover landscape #fire interactions with #climate, #ecosystems, and #society and welcome studies from diverse research fields spanning the natural and social sciences.
Stay tuned to Upcoming Special Issues!
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Last publication of @h-zhang.bsky.social 's PhD thesis is finally out! This study tests optimality theory on the effect of vapour pressure deficit using tree trait data collected in West Africa
New study shows that transitional Amazon-Cerrado vegetation have different response strategies to fire based on their functional traits. These strategies influence post-fire survival and overall community structure and composition
#DiscoLab
@manumachadoeco.bsky.social @navarrosales.bsky.social
Our research group presented at a Symposium about Cerrado at ATBC2025 with fantastic speakers and presentations. Kuddos to @manumachadoeco.bsky.social and @navarrosales.bsky.social for their work organising the Symposium !
GOES- West 3.7 micron channel showing active forest fires - white and red areaa - look for the gold line
Map of Canada showing location and status of forest fires. https://ciffc.ca/
Active forest fires in BC, AB and ON today. GOES-West mid-ir showing active and extremely active fires (white and red respectively) in BC and AB. Another active day tomorrow for BC & AB and area burned in Canada will likely hit 3 million ha soon. Only 2023 had more area burned at this time of year.
Read a summary of science results in this post! Thank you @unemat @icmbio for the partnership
After 8 years of continuous monitoring we have published the first results of our long term CerFogo experimental fire project as part of @navarrosales.bsky.social PhD thesis. Very happy to see this milestone accomplished!
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My first PhD paper is now published in #STOTEN! We used a long-term fire experiment and ecosystem monitoring protocol to quantify the effect of burning on the productivity, respiration and ecosystem #carbon balance of Cerrado #savanna (1/6)
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New article from Imma Oliveras (@ioliverasmenor.bsky.social)
Roland H., Matos I. S., Rosado B. H. P., Oliveras Menor I. 2025. Non-additive effects on plant mixtures flammability in a tropical mountain ecosystem. International Journal of Wildland Fire
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📢 New article out!
#FIREADAPT Early Stage Researcher glspadoni.bsky.social is the corresponding author of "Devegetation is a widespread driver of fire in the Brazilian Cerrado" in the #JournalOfEnvironmentalManagement.
Congrats Gian Luca & co-authors! 👏
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