The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity - Repeto‐Deudero @jgpausas.bsky.social @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As the giants of the animal kingdom dwindle in numbers, a new way to assess ecosystem function sheds light on animals’ changing ecological contributions go.nature.com/4ojQoiA

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! bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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

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 botany.one/2025/10/fran... 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. 🌏🧪🌐 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

⚡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! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

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 !

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! 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 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 doi.org/10.1071/WF24...

📢 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...

Hyperdominance in the world's most diverse savanna. The Cerrado has more than 1,600 tree species, and yet just 30 make up half of all trees. Congratulations to Facundo Alvarez and colleagues for this pan-Cerrado analysis using hundreds of plots. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Oh I can’t help it, feels a bit sentimental. RIP Skype - so many procrastination afternoons on your chat. So many calls (family, friends, work). And that ringtone…

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

A new theme issue of #PhilTransB looks at #fire risks and the joint effects of #climate, vegetation and human activity: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

🔔 New paper from the @fire-adapt.bsky.social consortium! 🔥 The use of #fire to preserve #biodiversity under novel fire regimes In this opinion piece, we synthesize recent research on the use of fire in biodiversity conservation under emerging fire regimes. 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

New thematic issue of Phil. Trans. Roy Soc B is out @royalsociety.org Novel wildfire regimes under climate change and human influences: impacts, ecosystem responses and feedbacks 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿 Eds Zehao Shen, Kate Giljohann, Zhihua Liu, Brendan M. Rogers and @jgpausas.bsky.social

This job at UBC (Vancouver Campus) also looks amazing. forestry.ubc.ca/career-oppor...

Another bird left the nest. Congratulations Dr Spadoni!! 🤩🥳 Looking forward to many collaborations. Thesis partially funded by @fire-adapt.bsky.social 🔥

🔥 Excited to be part of this amazing team at the @fire-adapt.bsky.social project! 📢 Check out our latest publication: "Integrated fire management as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes" 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43... #WildfireResilience #ClimateAction

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...

Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new work led by @jeaggu.bsky.social and with 124 co-authors is featured in science cover! Congratulations to Jesus by his wonderful leadership 🤩

Are tropical forests in the Americas changing as adaptation to ongoing climate change? Yes, they are! Are these changes enough to track their suitable climate? Not quite! Check out our paper in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... to see more of what our network has been working on!

This week I resigned from being Special Editor for a journal whose Editor-in-Chief didn’t show respect to peer editors or authors. The point of posting this is not to disclose names, but to report some fairly common and wrong practices in the peer-review process.

Botany valentine. Another from years past. New one on Monday!

Still spaces left! Join the Global Ecology Starter Pack Vol. 2, bsky.app/starter-pack... 🌐 DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join. We’re already 138, there’s still room for more! 🌐🌈 Cheers, Nicolas

#Fire-Adapt is in Montpellier!!! Lots of exciting knowledge exchanges between European and Latam partners on Integrated Fire Management during the France Study Hib🔥🧑🏼‍🚒🍂 More info www.fireadapt.eu/en/

Fleeing mountain lions and scorched earth: can wildlife survive California’s wildfires? Dr Imma Oliveras Menor, ECI, says that although these ecosystems have strategies to survive after intense wildfires, the severity of this one could inhibit this process. tinyurl.com/422v77kh

Vaga para pós-doc em Belém trabalhando com microclima de florestas amazônicas 👇

Open Letter led by N. Pilon & G. Durigan, signed by 183 scientists that highlights the importance of tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas. They matter for biodiversity protection, and the future of this planet relies on these ecosystems to the same extent it relies on forests.

No, the world has not breached the 1.5C global warming target. It’s a climate target - which means it’s an average that must be sustained over at least a decade. We currently sit at 1.2 C. Which is already very bad. The science is clear: every bit of warming matters, every action matters.

New paper out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social, led by Bruno Pinho, showing how human disruption is driving 'winner' and 'loser' #tree species shifts across tropical forests. ➡️ Fast-growing / small-seeded species dominating Brazilian forests were levels of deforestation and degradation are high. [1/5]

Study using > 700 sites over the world shows the role of soil nutrients and climate on the relative fitness of different mycorrhizal syndromes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Para finalizar la semana, encuentran las decisiones finales tomadas @UNCCD COP16 relacionadas con el trabajo del SPI, Documentos L, en 6 idiomas oficiales: www.unccd.int/convention/o...

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

First post, first time at AGU! 😃