What happens when you have a prescribed fire at the end of the dry season, fire of high severity with T>700ºC? The Cerrado blooms! 45 days post-fire and a high proportion of the spp flowering and fruiting. Isn’t that amazing? #Cerrado #FireEcology @leveg.bsky.social @programabiota.bsky.social

This week was full for the seed people at @leveg.bsky.social ! We did germination experiments and sorted a lot of seeds! #seedecology #fireecology

Seed sorting of native Cerrado species 🌱 #seedscience #seedecology #seeds

🔥 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

🔥🌱 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...

🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 Modifications in fire frequency impact belowground plant components in old-growth grasslands, posing risks to their resilience doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... @leveg.bsky.social

Terrific opportunity for someone! Science Director The Science Director is a new position at Odonata, created to lead the organisation’s conservation science, research, and evidence-based species recovery strategies across all programs and landscapes. www.odonata.org.au/vacancies

Exciting week seeing some beautiful Cerrado seeds germinate and learning a lot from the best, @heloizazirondi.bsky.social @leveg.bsky.social 🌱

Smoke experiments going on in our lab! #SeedEcology #FireEcology #Seeds

attending to #GoBelowground this week! meeting so many nice people and already learned so much within these two days. excited for the rest of the week 🤩

We're recruiting!! Myself along with Nathan Gill, Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org, and Katharine Suding are recruiting people for Master's, PhD, and postdoc positions in GrassFire, an NSF funded project examining fuels and fire risk in grassland ecosystems across the Southern Great Plains! 🔥🌿🐮

Check this out 🔥🔥🔥 www.instagram.com/p/DNq1bhUv3-...

1st scientific conference. "Flames and flowers: fire season drives reproductive timing in the Cerrado" special thanks to Alessandra Fidelis and Heloiza L. Zirondi "The natural world is the greatest source of excitement [...] It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."

🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 Deciphering fire tolerance of #trees at the Amazonia–Cerrado transition by trait-based approach: Implications from species to communities Wesley Jonatar Cruz, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

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!

(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!

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

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!

Friday, seed day 🌱🤣

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

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

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

The ISSS has curated a starter pack with seed scientists working on a wide variety of #SeedScience topics, from molecular biology to ecological restoration. If you want to be part of the starter pack or know another fellow seed scientist, please leave us a comment bellow! go.bsky.app/H38GoMy

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/

Here is a starter pack for scientists and others interested in trait-based ecology and evolution. Still trying to find everyone here. Please let me know if you would like to be added to the list! go.bsky.app/PThMXeX 🧪🌎🌾

Fire ecology and biodiversity conservation are complex. Some places might need fewer fires, fires at a different scale and/or fires at a different time of year (intensity/severity). Some places we might need more fire, etc... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here is the current Fire BlueSky landscape Fire starter packs: Fire ecology: bsky.app/starter-pack... Wildfire experts: bsky.app/starter-pack... Feeds: Disasters: Fire bsky.app/profile/did:... Wildfires (fire science): bsky.app/profile/davi... 🧪🌍🌳🔥🌿

Finished teaching for the semester! Today I finished teaching "quick data vis" (introduction to data visualization in R) to 1st year grad students - for the 3rd time. You can access course contents at my GitHub at well. github.com/cxli233/Quic...

Mesa redonda pegando fogo literalmente no #74CNBOT

A threat to dispersal processes is of course also a threat to the species being dispersed by them. An important study and great work by @sarammendes.bsky.social and coauthors.

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

🌱 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...

Direto do forno! #sementes #germinacao #seeds 🌱

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

IAVS 2024

Trans-generational adaptation to maternal climate through hormone transport in plants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.04.616646v1

First day of IAVS looking great already! #Leveg #seedsandfire #vegetationscience @alefidelis.bsky.social @marcochiminazzo.bsky.social

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

Post-fire flowering is one of the coolest thing about studying fires in the Cerrado. Bulbostylis paradoxa (sedge) is my favorite, starting flowering 24 hs post-fire. Last picture: Gomphrena sp dispersing seeds < 1 month post-fire

Today, I presented our latest work on using image analysis to enhance the use of native seeds at the Congresso Brasileiro de Sementes. Thrilled to see image analysis solutions and the need for collaborative databases getting more attention at seed meetings! @pagomba.bsky.social

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/...