Use fires to assess how fires affect trees. Perhaps obvious, but lots of studies assessing why fires kill trees, use heated water baths instead of fires on living plants - so we compared the two approaches. Unsurprisingly, they produce different results. connectsci.au/wf/article/d...

Proud father moment 😀 I am very excited to share my research group's newest paper - this study was jointly designed and carried out by my son, David Wilson (who was in high school at the time) and my doctoral student Alex. #fire #severity #pyro-ecophysiology doi.org/10.1071/WF25...

Delighted to be a part of this groundbreaking new paper in BioScience led by Sam Gilvarg at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry with many others including Shirley Luckhart Martin Dovciak doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Excited to share our newest synthesis paper where we review studies that have used real fires and 'fire-proxies' to better understand fire-induced tree mortality. We also highlight recent advances in pyroecophysiology. www.publish.csiro.au/WF/WF24136

Delighted to see yet another paper from my former doctoral student - Dr. Stephen Fillmore - we looked at decision factors relevant to the wildfire decision making in the USA since 2009: www.publish.csiro.au/WF/WF23129

Welcome Stefan Doerr @sdoerr.bsky.social 🌲🔥🌳🔥🔥🔥🌳🔥🌴

A nice highlight of recent work by Professor Grant Harley and his team with colleagues from Indiana University. www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

Welcome @dylanschwilk.bsky.social - I hope to continue helping you advance understanding of tree physiology one stressed tree at a time :) 🔥🌲🌳🌴🔥

Welcome treephysdj.bsky.social - I hope to continue helping you advance understanding of tree physiology one stressed tree at a time :) 🔥🌲🌳🌴🔥

In our newest Quantitative Fire Severity paper we also show how saplings in 5 different tree species respond to fires of varying intensities - in terms of % mortality and impacts on net photosynthesis at 4 weeks after the experimental fires https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad051

In our newest Quantitative Fire Severity paper we show that the dNBR and dCSI spectral indices can be used to predict species mortality in saplings of two contrasting tree species - in fires over a range of intensities https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad051

Delighted to be a CoPI on a new EPSCoR Track 2 NSF project to investigate how people in rural communities perceive the extent of climate change and how this perception affects their ability to adapt. https://www.uidaho.edu/news/news-articles/news-releases/2023/080723-climatechangeperception

Hey Everyone, my lab focuses on Quantitative Fire Severity. We do lab and #RxFire experiments focusing on how heat from fires impact trees and #PlantScience, #ecophysiology, fire-induced mortality, and when they live: long-term growth. We assess interactions of fire with stressors such as #drought.