This week, the Ecosystems Lab welcomed back @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social. During her visit, she shared updates from her research on experimental fire reintroduction and reflected on years of collaborative work in the Brazilian Cerrado. Read more here: www.oxfordecosystems.org/post/collabo...

Ecosystems and Biodiversity DPhil student, @navarrosales.bsky.social, has recently submitted a paper showing how Cerrado trees exhibit a productivity–fire tolerance trade-off. Read about it in recent blog post here: www.oxfordecosystems.org/post/functio... @ecioxford.bsky.social

The data paper for the 7th Plant Functional Traits Course has been published! We sampled 171 species across an 800 m elevation gradient in Witsieshoek, South Africa. The dataset covers morphological traits, leaf assimilation, thermal imaging, ecosystem fluxes and much more: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Many consecutive annual fires? 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Not extreme nor a problem for the Cerrado grass layer!!! More like a solution!🔥🔥🔥 See community, functional, and population responses of Cerrado grasses to seven consecutive annual fires in our new manuscript out today in Open Access! doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Besides from flowering 24h after any fire, Bulbostylis paradoxa is also clonal!! Check out our new paper describing its distinguished clonal mechanism 🔥🌱 Out now and available to anyone via Open Access. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 Changes in plant flammability-related traits to fire regime characteristics & biomass conditions in the #Cerrado By Vagner Zanzarini, Davi Rossatto & Alessandra Fidelis doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

Check out this amazing new publication by friend/colleague Wesley and coauthors!! Parabéns pelo trabalho 💪☺️

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 botany.one/2025/10/fran... Gracias @caordonezparra.bsky.social for the opportunity 😊

Serra das Araras?? … more like Serra das Cobras 🐍

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

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...

Can tropical rainforest trees keep their cool? Now out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social we explored whether intraspecific variation in leaf energy balance was a result of adaptation to local climate. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

What drives photosynthesis temperature sensitivity? New #GCB paper from #MichaletzLab grad #JosefGaren uses #FAsTeR to show it's 1‑day weather, not traits, origin climate, or phylogeny! www.researchgate.net/publication/... @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @globalchangebio.bsky.social

Simone Reis & colleagues show why Amazon transitional forest is vulnerable to drought. Typical savannas dominated by shrubs and small trees resist it, but adjacent ecosystems with bigger trees ("Cerradao") suffer large productivity losses, especially below-ground. bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

Last week, the @oxfordecosystems.bsky.social team and I participated in the ATBC2025 meeting in Oaxaca, México. It was great to see so many cool research presentations! During the event, @manumachadoeco.bsky.social and I organised a symposium about Cerrado fire ecology and conservation (see thread):

In this paper led by Wesley Cruz we used the burning experiment at Serra das Araras to study the fire tolerance of Cerrado trees. We examined the relationship between fire tolerance and morphological/ecophysiological traits @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social @manumachadoeco.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 !

📢📢🔥🔥🔥 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...

Check out this new publication by #UNEMAT on biological experimentation and modelling. Download the pdf here: Dem uma olhada nessa nova publicação da #UNEMAT sobre experimentação e modelagem em biologia. Confira o pdf: unemat.br/site/editora...

Check out the new paper by our PhD student @marcochiminazzo.bsky.social (EN) Important implications for ecosystem functioning in fire-prone and disturbance-driven systems🔥 (PT) Novo artigo do aluno de doutorado do LEVeg: ecossistemas expostos ao fogo e a distúrbios🔥 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.pp...

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

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

📢 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! 👏 Read 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Some cool flowers spotted during last weekend’s walks along the Torrente de Picapedreros and Finca La Soledad near Córdoba, Spain: - Tuberaria guttata (Cistaceae) - Sedum andegavense (Crassulaceae) - Briza maxima (Poaceae) - Cytinus hypocistis (Cytinaceae)

The NEOFIRE team led by @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social has just returned from a 6-week functional traits campaign at Serra das Araras, Brazil! There, I measured photosynthetic and leaf traits of 102 Cerrado trees under different fire regimes @umramap.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

Hello Bluesky! AMAP est une unité de recherche qui s'intéresse à la botanique et la modélisation de l'architecture des plantes et des végétations. AMAP regroupe des mathématiciens et informaticiens aux côtés de botanistes, agronomes & écologues 🌱🌿🌳🔬🛰️💻 amap.cirad.fr/fr/index.php #helloESR #botany

Our team has two contributions: 1) How have fire regimes changed in the Cerrado 1985-2020? Led by @carlotasegurag.bsky.social Fire activity of the southern areas of the Cerrado decreased, while fire activity levels in the centre and north increased or remained high over time. doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

How can Integrated Fire Management be implemented as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes? This perspective provides an overview of IFM across different regions worldwide and presents a roadmap of implementation maximizing its potential to benefit both people and nature.

What role does fire play in rewilding? @navarrosales.bsky.social reviews the current state of art and finds four distinct discourses: fire as an ecosystem process; fire as a socioecological risk; fire as a potential hazard; fire management put at risk by rewilding. doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...

Understanding the role of fire in the context of rewilding is critical for effective scaling up of nature recovery. In this new paper, @chloestrevens.bsky.social, @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social and I review and synthesise the literature to find four main discourses: doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...

Today I saw four species of oaks resprouting ~5 months after the September 2024 wildfire in Castelnou, France: Quercus coccifera (kermes oak) Quercus ilex (holm oak) Quercus pubescens (downy oak) Quercus suber (cork oak)

Christmas time in Salobreña. Feliz Navidad and Happy Holidays!

Great few days at #BES2024 in Liverpool last week! Wonderful to learn and connect with so many cool people. Looking back, I’d like to share the TOP 3 poster presentations I enjoyed best! Congrats on such great work: @mariabmills.bsky.social @alice-rosen.bsky.social @nicolaszurbuchen.bsky.social

Day two was packed with fantastic talks, poster presentations and fun activities! We can’t believe that we are already at the final day of #BES2024!

Thank you to colleagues who attended my talk yesterday at #BES2024. Presented my work on Cerrado carbon fluxes and fire, now in English. Grateful to my supervisors and coauthors for their support @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social @oxfordbiology.bsky.social @oxfordecosystems.bsky.social

What a great first day of #BES2024! The turn out to our talks was incredible, thank you for your feedback and questions! We learnt so much from the other sessions and talks during the day. Day two, let's go! @ymalhi.bsky.social @jedsol.bsky.social @davbauman.bsky.social @navarrosales.bsky.social

We end off day 1 of @britishecolsoc.bsky.social #BES2024 with a talk by Ecosystems’ DPhil student Francisco (Paco) Navarro Rosales @navarrosales.bsky.social on his research on fire impacts on ecosystem carbon fluxes and the productivity of Brazilian Cerrado. Don’t miss this interesting talk!

Had the pleasure of giving a lecture at Colégio Estadual Tiradentes in Oliveira dos Brejinhos, Bahia, alongside the amazing @brunoormonde.bsky.social. We explored the interface carbon cycling and fire ecology in the context of the local Caatinga and other dry forests and savanas across the world 🌿🌵🌾

The 74CNBot has now drawn to a close and I am extremely grateful to have met so many excellent scientists: Zirondi, Fidelis, Bombo, Rossatto, Franco, Pott, Fontenele, Miranda, Pilon, Durigan, Bond, Simioni… It has been a pleasure to meet you and am looking forward to next time 😊❤️

As a PhD student in fire ecology, I may be biased, but this certainly was the highlight of 74CNBot so far! It was a pleasure to attend and learn about your work. Muito obrigado a todas vocês! 🔥❤️

Presented my doctoral research at the 74CNBot (74 Congresso Nacional de Botânica, Brasília)! Thanks to my supervisors, co-authors and collaborators, as well as to the congress organisers. Stay tuned for conference updates! @ymalhi.bsky.social @oxfordbiology.bsky.social @oxfordecosystems.bsky.social

74CNBot Workshop on plant-gall interactions in the Cerrado. Got to sample, describe and image gall specimens at the Jardim Botânico de Brasília. Thank you Renê, Elaine and Priscila!

Glimpses of the Cerrado at Chapada Imperial Ecological Reserve (DF). Pre-conference field excursion within the 74th Congresso Nacional de Botânica (74CNBot), Brasília.

West African tropical forest have the highest productivity we have yet observed anywhere in the tropics, yet both models commonly fail to capture this productivity. In this new paper on Nature Communications we explain why… ⁦⁦⁦⁦⁦ www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturerecovery.bsky.social

Devastating to see the destruction brought by torrential rains in Valencia; I hope adequate support reaches those affected as soon as possible. This must be a wake up call for those in power to ramp up climate action now. elpais.com/espana/2024-... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Post-fire flowering in the Cerrado two weeks after burning. Estação Ecológica Serra das Araras, Mato Grosso

The CERFogo Team has successfully finished its 7th experimental burning and ecosystem monitoring field campaign at Serra das Araras, Mato Grosso! Conditions have been especially challenging due to drought and of lack capacity to attend wildfire emergencies around the area. @wesleyjonatar.bsky.social

Obrigado 74CNBot! Looking forward to my first conference in Brasilia this November!