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...

Our master's student presented his poster at Pheno 2025 last week. Congrats, @fealvarez.bsky.social — we're proud of you!

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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

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):

📢📢🔥🔥🔥 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...

📢🔥 Excited to share this new chapter! Led by @sgomezgon.bsky.social we explore the fire ecology in the Chilean Mediterranean 🌿🇨🇱 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... @iebchile.bsky.social @cr2uchile.bsky.social Thanks to @alefidelis.bsky.social & @springernature.com

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!

Dr. Aline Bombo (@alinebombo.bsky.social), post doc in our lab, is now an affiliated professor in the Plant Biology postgrad program at UNICAMP! She’s advising MSc and PhD students, for more details check out the pictures . 📩 Contact: [email protected] 🔗 CV (Lattes): lnkd.in/d8xuQbQb

(EN) Exciting new publication with the participation of @alefidelis.bsky.social. Don’t miss it! (PT) Nova publicação com a participação de @alefidelis.bsky.social. Não perca!

Very excited to see this paper out! Led by @schwilk.org, with @azhar06.bsky.social @ecologybrad.bsky.social @rachaelnolan.bsky.social @alefidelis.bsky.social @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social @dendromecon27.bsky.social @profalistairsmith.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Yesterday the BRIVAC, a volunteer fire brigade, did a prescribed fire during the II Seminário Regional do Manejo Integrado do Fogo. In Brazil, local volunteers are essential for the success of fire management, including during wildfires. Bravo BRIVAC!

II Seminário Regional do Manejo Integrado do Fogo: local event, organized by the volunteer fire brigade of Cavalcante, where everyone can talk about their favorite topic: working with fire. Scientist, society, government, traditional peoples and volunteers.

This sedge never stops amazing me: first picture was taken 18 hours after fire; second picture - 36 hours post-fire. Detail: this was an early-dry season fire! Bulbostylis paradoxa fire-super star 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Burning for the 7th time our early-dry season fire plots. We have established the fire experiment in 2013 with 5 treatments related to fire frequency and season. At each fire, we sample fire parameters. Twice a year, we sample vegetation and biomass.

Check this out 🔥🌱 youtu.be/kYDsCYNi_Po?... Congrats @alefidelis.bsky.social @leveg.bsky.social

so proud to be part of this study @agenciafapesp.bsky.social

Levantamento feito em 119 regiões do mundo investigou a “diversidade faltante”, isto é, espécies nativas que poderiam estar presentes na localidade, mas estavam ausentes. Resultados acabam de ser publicados em @nature.com. agencia.fapesp.br/54378 @alefidelis.bsky.social @macroecologyut.bsky.social

super excited to begin this new project (Biota-MIF), establishing plots using GGG protocols and analyzing the effects of fire management on vegetation and ecosystem services! More data of grassy ecosystems to come!

@heloizazirondi.bsky.social is a Dr now! Congrats Helô! Dr Heloiza L Zirondi - the master of the seeds!

The #SSNM is one of my favorite meetings! Today I presented a talk about how fire exclusion is negatively impacting forbs in the Cerrado! @agenciafapesp.bsky.social @programabiota.bsky.social #Cerrado #forbs #fire #womeninstem #CerradoOnFire #Biota-MIF

This week we had the first meeting of our Biota-Cerrado on Fire project! We are a multidisciplinary group of researchers from different parts of the world and Brazil, composed of 70% of female researchers! I am so happy to have put this amazing team together! #CerradoOnFire #Cerrado #FireEcology

Logo logo começaremos a trazer novidades sobre nosso projeto de co-produção Biota-MIF, que avalia o Manejo Integrado do Fogo. Fique de olho! Very soon we will bring news about our co-production project Biota-MIF, which evaluates the Integrated Fire Management! Stay tuned! @programabiota.bsky.social

In the last days I visited the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, University of Copenhagen and Karlstad Universitet. I had the pleasure to meet nice colleagues, strengthen collaboration and talk about what I like the most: savannas, fire, and our FAPESP projects @programabiota.bsky.social

Preparing my talk for tomorrow! It is always a pleasure to talk about fire and the Cerrado to colleagues abroad! This time, in Copenhagen!

Estudo de revisão conduzido por colaboração internacional de cientistas aponta que plantas herbáceas não graminoides são fundamentais para a biodiversidade, o armazenamento de carbono, a regeneração pós-distúrbios e a provisão de serviços ecossistêmicos pelo #Cerrado. agencia.fapesp.br/53710/

First meeting with the local stakeholders to discuss how science can contribute to the local fire. It was also an amazing opportunity to share knowledge!

(Online) talk at the EcoEvo seminar at the University of Alberta: talking about the Cerrado and fire 🔥 , hosted by Dr Viktoria Wagner. Thank you Viktoria ☺️

Please share 📢 "Go Belowground!" 2025 is here! 14 – 20 September 2025 The course covers the theoretical background and practical assessment of #plant #functional #traits found in #belowground plant organs in #temperate #herbs 🪴🌱 Application info: 1url.cz/2ziQz #clonality #ExFuMo #GoBelowground

LEVegians presenting the research projects from the lab! Go LEVeg!

Grassland restorations must better foster forbs to facilitate high biodiversity Check out @ashishnerlekar.bsky.social's recent call for "forb-centric" grassland restoration Message if you lack access and would like to a copy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Training future vegetation scientists? At least showing them how amazing and fun it is to be a vegetation scientist!

Drinking our paper with my dear friend Frances Siebert! @agenciafapesp.bsky.social @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social #forbs

📢A new paper from our @ExFuMo.bsky.social group in @newphyt.bsky.social #Storage organs of #perennial #herbs do not comprise deposition of #carbon #surplus but receive greater #allocation in early-flowering than among late-flowering relying on acquisition during growing season #GoBelowground

Botanizing in a recently burned savanna: nice discussions about post-fire flowering and learning from the best savanna ecologists and botanists: Marcelo Simon, Frances Siebert abd William Bond

very proud o Mariani, who presented her poster today at the #74CNBOT. She did an amazing job!

We recently got a big FAPESP project approved! For the next 5 yr, me, Alexander Christianini, Vânia Pivello and Davi Rossatto (PPs’ project) will be leading the research involving fire effects on plant communities ecophysiology, ecosystem services, plant-animal interactions (1/2)

🌱 Hello to everyone interested in extracting seed measurements from images! 🌱 I’ve released an experimental version of Traitor, featuring a new option requested by some users: ordered output to keep track of individual seeds during analysis. Never heard of Traitor?👇🧵 github.com/rdayrell/tra...

Mesa redonda pegando fogo literalmente no #74CNBOT

Fire ecology research in Brazil is dominated by amazing female researchers. I learn so much from them! So happy meet my dear fire friends in Brasilia at the #74CongressoNacionalBotanica - Vânia Pivello, Livia Moura and Carol Barradas

If you are an invasion biologist or work on related topics please comment on this post and I will add you to the starter pack! go.bsky.app/WsevAe

Check this out! Great paper @alefidelis.bsky.social . www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

What are forbs? They are important components in tropical and subtropical open ecosystems and should not be neglected! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Another M.Sc from LEVeg!!!! Congrats @gabrieladezotti.bsky.social !!!!! you rock!

Plenary talk at the #IAVS2024 - talking anout the underground world of plant communities. And the women of the Governing Board

IAVS 2024

so proud of my students @marcochiminazzo.bsky.social and @heloizazirondi.bsky.social !

Ready for the IAVS 2024! #IAVS2024

Excited to share our latest paper in @annbot.bsky.social ! We provide a quantitative review of seed functional ecology in Brazilian rock outcrop vegetation. @caordonezparra.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

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