📢 First time in Brazil 🇧🇷 / Pela primeira vez no Brasil 🇧🇷
Special Topics: Go Belowground!
Tópicos Especiais: Go Belowground!
18–22 May 2026, in person / presencial
Apply 16–30 Apr / Inscrições 16–30 abr
20 spots/vagas
Motivation letter in English.
🚨 🎉 Our CONSENSUS VIEW, “An international consensus on core reproducibility items in research,” is now out in @plosbiology.org 🎉 🚨
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Want to learn more about ecological stability with a hands-on approach? Join us in the next cycle of free webinars! On April 24, Jules Segrestin will talk about drivers of stability in time series. Register at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... and consider becoming an IAVS member!
On my latest #MeetPlantScientist interview for @botany.one, Dr Jason Cantley talked about his origins and interests, and about his commitment to mentoring the next generation of plant scientists! One of my favourite interviews so far!
#Botany #PlantScience #SciComm 🧪 www.botany.one/jason-cantle...
New blog post!🚨
The BIEN working group give the story behind their new paper "BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data"🪴🌍 🧪
Read here 👇
buff.ly/PZcecxJ
🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉
An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊
Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...
#DataViz
Get ready for the second webinar about open vegetation data, co-hosted with EVS!
On March 27, Martin Večeřa, Salza Palpurina, and Ilona Knollová will show us how to get from a vegetation-plot database to a GBIF dataset. Join the meeting at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Help us spread the word about the #IAVS Early Career #Supporting Grant!
Share this post so the news about the #OPENCALL can reach as many people as possible!
🔴 The deadline is March 30th, 2026
For more information, visit our website!
👇
iavs.org/page/YSCareerS…
The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology are now published in the Peer Community Journal!
🔗 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
New on the Belowground blog: What function? What type of organ? plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/w...
The IAVS ESC Grant is now open❗
The application form is available on our website — don’t miss out on this chance!
🔴 Deadline: March 30th
Make sure to apply in time!
Let your career in vegetation science grow and bloom with us!
Apply Here 👇 www.iavs.org/page/YSCaree...
🚩Dig into plant functional ecology! 🌱⛏️Join the 8th Go Belowground! PhD course (13–19 Sep 2026, Czech Republic) Lectures, hands-on field, lab training ▶️ 1url.cz/2ziQz
#clonality #budbank #belowground #mophology #roots #traits #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #functional #course
🔥 Postdoctoral Opportunity | Fire, Seeds & the Cerrado 🌱
The Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (UNESP, Brazil) is offering a postdoc position to study how fire regimes and climate warming shape seed traits and germination in Cerrado species.
👉 Learn more: tinyurl.com/hf9yd98f
#Ecology #Traits
Pós-Doc | Postdoc position
🇧🇷 Modelos ecológicos de vegetação e dinâmica para risco de incêndio e manejo
🇺🇸 Ecological and dynamic vegetation models for fire risk and management
🗓️ Aplique até/Deadline: 25/01/2026
➡️ Início/Start: 10/03/2026
📍 USP, São Paulo, Brasil
🔗 fapesp.br/oportunidade...
Back to work, this time, after sorting seeds, it's time to count the viable ones that already germinated. And the results is these little cuties 🤏🏻🌱❤️
@fealvarez.bsky.social 😉
New paper out. Check it at #AJB!
🔥 Postdoc: Biota-Cerrado on Fire (FAPESP)
3-yr position at LEVeg/Unesp (Brazil) on fire, open ecosystems & functional ecology.
Pós-Doc (3 anos) sobre fogo, ecossistemas abertos e ecologia funcional.
📅 Deadline/Prazo: 30/11/25
🔗 Apply/Inscreva-se: fapesp.br/oportunidade...
#Postdoc #FireEcology
Hypothesized distribution of the belowground persistence types along a gradient of disturbance return time with hump-shaped (first increasing and then decreasing) investment in resprouting (highlighted by intensity of shading). The disturbance return time ranges from less than a year to many decades. source: original paper
🌱 New framework in plant ecology! Researchers propose 6 Belowground Persistence Types (BPTs) — classifying plants by woodiness, clonality, and resprouting ability. This whole-plant view reveals how species persist after disturbance and could reshape how we study resilience.
🔗 buff.ly/LgaPglR
(MK)
🔥New review in WIREs Climate Change
Proud to highlight the participation of Dr. Davi Rossatto, PI of the Biota-Cerrado on Fire Project (FAPESP 2023/16620-0).
👉 doi.org/10.1002/wcc....
#Cerrado #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Savanna
Exciting week seeing some beautiful Cerrado seeds germinate and learning a lot from the best, @heloizazirondi.bsky.social @leveg.bsky.social 🌱
Now there are lotsssss of seeds to count 😅😅😅
Smoke experiments going on in our lab! #SeedEcology #FireEcology #Seeds
A graphic with an icon of the sun, a wiggly line denoting natural cycles, and a volcano, with a title reading "WHY is climate changing?" created by me. Not fancy, as my graphic design skills lean to function over art!
Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming.
Could these be the real culprits?
The evidence is in--and the answer is NO.
This thread explains! 🧵
🔥 Mujeres del Fuego Sudamérica | Mulheres do Fogo da América do Sul 🔥
Una red de mujeres unidas por la ecología del fuego y su valor cultural.
Uma rede de mulheres unidas pela ecologia do fogo e seu valor cultural.
💫 Únete/Participe: shre.ink/t8I0
What a week! In the last feel days LEVeg attend the 67th IAVS Symposium in Greeley, Colorado. Amazing experience — hope to see you all next year in Gijón!
@iavs5.bsky.social
@alefidelis.bsky.social
@marcochiminazzo.bsky.social
@gabrieladezotti.bsky.social
And we talked a lot about seeds at the #ATBC2025! Thanks @caordonezparra.bsky.social for organizing this amazing symposium and delivering this great talk! @heloizazirondi.bsky.social summed up 10 years of our research about fire and seed ecology in the Cerrado! You guys rock!
📢📢🔥🔥🔥 I am so excited to announce our book about Fire in the South American Ecosystems! It has 14 Chapters led mostly by south american authors. Thanks to all authors for their valuable contribution! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
