With new data science tools, UC Berkeley researchers at Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment are helping national parks in the Mojave Desert quickly assess fire damage — and plan for recovery. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4wnEl7g schmidtdse.bsky.social ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Wildfire smoke can trigger storms. 🌩️ On 17 August 2025, thunderstorms formed across Spain far from active fires. Data from Meteosat-12 showed drifting smoke meeting humid air, helping clouds grow, and lightning develop. Find out how this unfolded in our latest article: bit.ly/4hRrrKX

New paper out in @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social on the future of post-disturbance recovery in boreal forests 👇 🌲🌲 We used the LPJ-GUESS vegetation model to understand how future warming might alter recovery trajectories and influence species composition. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

JGR: Biogeosciences@jgrbiogeo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Warming Drives Large-Scale Shifts in Post-Disturbance Vegetation Dynamics and Expansion of Deciduous Trees in the Boreal Forest in a Dynamic Vegetation Model agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Squirrels reduce post‑fire regeneration potential in a serotinous pine by 66%, despite pine cone defences against squirrels! By Guiote et al @cideinvestiga.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/aob/... | @annbot.bsky.social 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁🐿️ #plantscience #ecoevo #plantsci #predation

Nuevo libro de Ecología del Fuego, ¡este con mucho arte! Por Julia @gegunde.bsky.social y Pilar del Río Ideal para este verano En venta en: pilardelrio.bigcartel.com/product/ecol... jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2026/07/13/e... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁📚🎨

I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

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BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…

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Fire-stimulated flowering enhances multiple plant fitness components Final version now available #OA doi.org/10.1093/aob/... @annbot.bsky.social 🧪🌎🔥🌳🌿🌱wildfire #PlantScience #PlantBiology #fire #geophytes! @calacastellanos.bsky.social @cideinvestiga.bsky.social

juli g pausas@jgpausas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Unambiguous positive role of #fire in many #geophytes! doi.org/10.1093/aob/... | @annbot.bsky.social 🧪🌎🔥🌳🌿🌱wildfire #PlantScience #PlantBiology

Drought response of fire-adapted Mediterranean plants under elevated CO2 Final version now available at #TreePhysiol doi.org/10.1093/tree... | @mayazomer.bsky.social et al. 🧪🌎🔥🌳🌿🌱🍁 wildfire #CO2 #PlantScience #PlantBiology #elevatedCO2 @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @creaf.cat

juli g pausas@jgpausas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Massive experiment completed despite the #COVID-19 disrupting it midway! By @mayazomer.bsky.social et al. Thank you to those who helped! Paper: doi.org/10.1093/tree... Blog: dse.berkeley.edu/news/will-ri... 🧪🌎🔥🌳🌿🌱🍁 wildfire #PlantScience #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @creaf.cat

Does fire-induced bud mortality reduce phenotypic variability? 🔥🌱 In the Cerrado species Palicourea rigida it seems to be the case! academic.oup.com/aob/article/... @annbot.bsky.social @jgpausas.bsky.social @cideinvestiga.bsky.social

Does fire-induced bud mortality reduce phenotypic variability?

AbstractBackground and Aims. For plants that resprout after fire, burning creates a strong before–after contrast in which lost biomass must be rebuilt unde

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How can fire models inform land use & risk decisions? Join wildfire scientist Dr. Alexandra Syphard June 24–25 to explore fire modeling frameworks—what they can do & where they fall short. Discounts available for all income levels. DM for discount details. 🔥 Details & registration: bit.ly/4ucl3Rb

Massive experiment completed despite the #COVID-19 disrupting it midway! By @mayazomer.bsky.social et al. Thank you to those who helped! Paper: doi.org/10.1093/tree... Blog: dse.berkeley.edu/news/will-ri... 🧪🌎🔥🌳🌿🌱🍁 wildfire #PlantScience #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @creaf.cat

Maya Zomer@mayazomer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My last PhD chapter is out! 🌿🔥☀️ Elevated CO₂ is unlikely to buffer drought stress for post-fire seeders in Mediterranean shrublands doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpag006 Blog: bit.ly/4u4ur9F @jgpausas.bsky.social @bmoreira.bsky.social @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @creaf.cat @schmidtdse.bsky.social

My last PhD chapter is out! 🌿🔥☀️ Elevated CO₂ is unlikely to buffer drought stress for post-fire seeders in Mediterranean shrublands doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpag006 Blog: bit.ly/4u4ur9F @jgpausas.bsky.social @bmoreira.bsky.social @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @creaf.cat @schmidtdse.bsky.social

Sorry, but elevated CO2 is unlikely to mitigate drought stress for Mediterranean postfire seeder shrubs! doi.org/10.1093/tree... #TreePhysiology Elevated #CO2 & #drought experiment by @mayazomer.bsky.social et al. @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @creaf.cat 🧪🌎🔥🌳🌿🌱🍁 wildfire #PlantScience #PlantBiology

Drought response of fire-adapted Mediterranean shrubs under elevated CO2

Abstract. The first summer after fire poses a high risk of drought mortality for species that rely on postfire recruitment for their persistence in fire-pr

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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Fire-stimulated flowering enhances multiple plant fitness components doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Fire-stimulated flowering enhances multiple plant fitness components

AbstractBackground and Aims. Fire is a key ecological driver shaping reproductive strategies in fire-prone ecosystems. One distinctive strategy is fire-sti

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Join us April 28 for the first in a two-part series providing an in-depth review of wildfire dynamics in savanna ecosystems. Speakers: @dramalamujer.bsky.social Dr. Abigail Croker, Dr. Sally Archibald, Amos Chege Muthiuru and Dr. Caroline Lehmann globalwildfirecollective.org/event/wildfi...

New virtual issue in AJB 🌿All Functional Trait Handbooks, from the landmark Cornelissen et al. (2003) to the latest on reproductive traits, are now collected in one place. 20+ years of protocols for measuring plant traits across species, ecosystems & continents. All free to read. 🔗 buff.ly/zXlFjQx

Really good overview of plans to help Joshua trees survive climate change, on National Geographic, with some description of a project I'd only heard rumored, which might aaaaalmost count as what we call assisted migration www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

The desert is getting too hot for Joshua trees. Can we just … move them?

To protect the southwest’s iconic Joshua trees, scientists are tinkering with their genetics and searching for climate havens in—and sometimes outside of—their existing habitat.

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Are you a community ecologist interested in fire ecology? Come join our group! Postdoc position for project FEVER, that aims to understand how fire affects biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and biogeochemical cycles in Mediterranean forests @umramap.bsky.social.

Fire buffers drought impacts on reproduction in a resprouting shrub nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Under drought, burned plants had ⬆️prob. of flowering, produced +flowers, set +seeds & heavier seeds, than unburned Saiz-Blanco et al @oikosjournal.bsky.social 🧪🌍🔥🌿🪴🌾🌱 Anthyllis

🔥 Postdoctoral Opportunity | Fire, Seeds & the Cerrado 🌱 The Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (UNESP, Brazil) is offering a postdoc position to study how fire regimes and climate warming shape seed traits and germination in Cerrado species. 👉 Learn more: tinyurl.com/hf9yd98f #Ecology #Traits

🔥 RESEARCH 🔥 Shrub resprouting depends on pre-disturbance condition, with aridity, soil fertility & fire history as secondary drivers. Repeated disturbance reduces resprouting, & adult plants are more resilient under low water conditions - Zomer et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

🌿🔥 INSIGHT 🔥🌿 ✍️ "Legacies of stress and altered disturbance regimes threaten shrubland resilience" - Jacobsen & Pratt comment on recent research by Zomer et al. Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

CIDE busca persona interesada en solicitar beca predoc de la Generalitat Valenciana (tinyurl.com/34jbccyr) para trabajar en Fauna y Fuego (CIDE CSIC Valencia) 🧪🌍🔥🦎 @ccbiologiquesuv.bsky.social @uv.es @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @ucciuv.bsky.social @crueuniversidades.bsky.social @eco-aeet.bsky.social

Rapid postfire color shift in a Mediterranean lizard @jzoology.bsky.social #Lizards inhabiting recently burned areas display lighter coloration, as a #thermoregulatory response zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌍🔥🦎📏 #trait #fauna #zoology #wildfire #fireecology #fire

Congrats Kristin Davis for her #ecology research that challenges the #NicheConservatismHypothesis: the theory that a species' ecological niche (conditions where individuals can survive and reproduce) remains stable over space & time. 🐦 Findings: bit.ly/3LeZyOL #Europeanstarling #housesparrow

Our Global Wildfire Collective Spatial Data Gateway is here! Intended for sharing wildfire-related data, maps, models, tools, and publications. Explore now! globalwildfirecollective.databasin.org #GlobalWildfireCollective #ConsBio #DataBasin #FireData #WildfireData #Wildfire #Fire #FireResearch

Happy to share that our new paper is now joined by an insight piece from Anna L Jacobsen & R Brandon Pratt giving context on Mediterranean shrub resprouting 🌿🔥 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... plus a blog post summarizing our article! 👇

Legacies of stress and altered disturbance regimes threaten shrubland resilience

This article comments on:Zomer MA, Moreira B, Pausas JG. 2025. Pre-disturbance plant condition drives intraspecific resprouting variability in Mediterranea

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley@schmidtdse.bsky.social · 12mo ago

👏DSE postdoc @mayazomer.bsky.social published new research in the @jxbotany.bsky.social! It explores how #MediterraneanShrubs resprout to recover after #disturbance and their resilience to global change: bit.ly/4mAwH5p cc @cideinvestiga.bsky.social ‪‪@bmoreira.bsky.social @jgpausas.bsky.social

🔥Are you investigating how plants respond to shifting fire regimes? Submit to our new Special Collection🌱 Title: "After the fires: Plant responses and resilience under shifting fire regimes" 📖 Submit by 30 Sept 2025. 🧪 Details 👉 www.publish.csiro.au/bt/content/C... #Fire #Botany #Plantscience

Fire alters the phenotype of individual plants, potentially through epigenetic mechanisms Saiz-Blanco, @cmhmaliani.bsky.social et al @journalofecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🌾 botany #ecoevo #plantbiology traits @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es

Phenotypic rebuilding after fire: Understanding within‐individual variability in a Mediterranean shrub

This paper shows that burned resprouting individuals of Anthyllis cytisoides differed significantly in phenotype, global cytosine methylation and the relationship between floral phenotype and fitness...

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Resprouting paper by @mayazomer.bsky.social et al. now online with a temporal OA link 🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🌾 Anthyllis cytisoides & Globularia alypum #PlantBiology #SEM #botany academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Pre-disturbance plant condition drives intraspecific resprouting variability in Mediterranean shrubs

Shrub resprouting depends on pre-disturbance condition, with aridity, soil fertility, and fire history as secondary drivers. Repeated disturbance reduces r

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juli g pausas@jgpausas.bsky.social · last yr.

Resprouting is more complex than you think 🙃 "Pre-disturbance plant condition drives intraspecific resprouting variability in Mediterranean shrubs" by @mayazomer.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... @jxbotany.bsky.social 🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🌾 Anthyllis cytisoides & Globularia alypum #PlantBiology #SEM #botany