Important new paper by Luke Collins and colleagues: "Extremely large fires shape fire severity patterns across the diverse forests of British Columbia [BC], Canada" Key findings: 1. Fires in BC have increased in size from 1986-2021 2. Bigger fires have larger patches of high-severity fire 🧪🌍🔥

The PhUnFETTy lab will have four presentations at #ESA2025. These will cover plant ecophysiology, trait ecology, eutrophication, water availability, mycorrhizae, demography, theory, modeling, and more! Check out the flyer and replies below for more details. Hope to see you in Baltimore!

Led by Adam Hanbury-Brown, we found that Sierra Nevada dry conifer forests will become carbon sources and shift to oak-dominated forests under 2.5 °C warming by the late 21st century, regardless of management. Uncertainty remains due to limited data for constraining key model parameters is.gd/dm9aPu

We are collecting records of fire behaviour in the UK! Do you have fire behaviour observations (recent or historical) for a specific location, date and time? We welcome you to fill in this survey to help us to validate and improve FireInSite fire behaviour predictions. Survey link: arcg.is/CyqWj2

Simulating Lightning‐Induced Tree Mortality in the Dynamic Global Vegetation Model LPJ‐GUESS 🔗 buff.ly/2DnFgZ0

Just a reminder that you can still submit your abstract to our session by July 30th.

🌳 🔥 🌎 Our new paper: The extreme fire-prone #weather underpinning some of the worst #wildfire episodes this century has become more than twice as likely due to #climate change—a trend now evident across much of the world's tropical and mid-latitude #forests. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This week I participated in a workshop and was struck by the difference between younger male collegues who were speaking up like they were used to being listened to, and younger female collegues who were timid and not used to being listened to. Damn, are we still here…

Another new paper published today using ECOSTRESS again to predict wildfire—this time burn severity—one week before occurrence across New Mexico. This paper also outlines a framework for using machine learning with these data and applications. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @drwkid.bsky.social

If you are doing wildfire-relevant research, especially with the goals to understand the complex climate, vegetation, soil, fire, and human interactions in the Earth system, please consider submitting abstracts to our #AGU #fire session: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

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 study by Wang, Braghiere (@renatobrgh.bsky.social‬‬) et al. shows how the use of #plant traits can improve modeling of global #carbon, #water, and #energy fluxes, and consequently lead to improved #climate projections. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PSA that the FATESmodel can now in principle do grazing, thanks to @ckoven.bsky.social ‘s excellent efforts. People who measure the C,N or P efficiency of grazing animals, please do chime in if you can help us refine it!

1/n Please see our new paper in Nature Communications! We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥 Our key findings are as follows ...

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

January 2025 was quite unexpectedly the warmest January on record at 1.75C above preindustrial, beating the prior record set in 2024. This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....

Our @newphyt.bsky.social paper with @ckoven.bsky.social and others used a dynamic vegetation model to understand how grass allometry and phenology influence annual grassland matter and energy exchange and their seasonality, as well wildfire dynamics: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....

We are looking for a grant-funded doctoral resarcher on a project focusing on how tree and shrub expansion into the tundra impact biodiversity and carbon balance @Department of Geosciences and Geography @helsinkiuni.bsky.social! DM me if you are interested, and please share!

The California Fire Science Seminar Series will return on February 4, 2025, at 10 am PT. Join us for the weekly, virtual presentation and discussion on emerging fire science topics from a variety of speakers. cafiresci.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?...

at #AGU24 and interested in forest management using prescribed fire and how we can model that? come to my talk this Thu Dec. 12 at 8:50 am in room Salon C. I will be introducing a new management fire module in the dynamic vegetation model FATES.

"So far, 13 models out of 134 ESMs participating in the recent Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, version 6 (CMIP6) have represented the coupling between permafrost, soil hydrology, and fires" The IPCC prediction has a huge ensemble bias of the terrestrial carbon sink #climate #uöäü1IPCC

Our work(with @dylanschwilk.bsky.social Robin Verble) found no fuel load or structure effects on post-fire mortality in eastern red cedar, suggesting Rx fire is efficient in containing woody plant encroachment into grasslands at early stage. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Explored Tahoe and had my very first horse ride. Prefer riding horse to work than driving now

I mean, I very much appreciate what you are trying to do here BART, but

Our (Charles Koven and Lara Kueppers) paper on #allometry and trade-offs in carbon investment for California grasses is now out esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/..., w/ species and functional type specific allometric equations for above and belowground structures available.

You know what's cool? >20 years of #remotesensing data that allows one to produce #wildfire progression, or day-of-burning, maps. Such maps have enabled some cool studies. The pub below describes a process to produce such maps. I distribute code, with no strings attached, to anyone who asks.🧪

The Jones Center at Ichauway is hiring an Assistant/Associate Scientist in Plant/Restoration Ecology! Expertise in longleaf pine savanna communities essential. Permanent, funded position in a gorgeous ecological reserve in southwestern GA! Apply before Apr 12, 2024.

It’s 2024. Still see a lot of ppl published papers with code and data only available upon request. What you can lose?