Heloiza L. Zirondi
@heloizazirondi.bsky.social
Working on seed ecology, fire ecology and traits.🌱🔥#SeedScience #FireEcology #PlantBiology #SeedTraits
And we end our #68thIAVS story with very happy news 💚 We are so proud to congratulate our master’s student @leticiagiacom.bsky.social who won 3rd place in the Young Scientist Best Poster Award (@iavs-young-sci.bsky.social) . Huge congratulations, Letícia – you really #rocked it!
Then, Dr. Mariana Dairel on fire regimes and plant community assembly in the Cerrado Dr. @marcochiminazzo.bsky.social talking about Brazilian Cerrado vegetation using herbarium data and finally Dr. Pedro Thomas presenting his work on seed traits of native and invasive species
We had some amazing oral presentations and a poster from our #toptier team: Dr. @alefidelis.bsky.social on the importance of belowground traits in fire‑prone ecosystems Dr. @heloizazirondi.bsky.social on trade‑offs between vegetative and reproductive traits in a tropical savanna
In late June, some LEVeg members joined the #68thIAVS Symposium in Gijón! We presented some of our new research and ideas and took part in great discussions on vegetation science. Thank you, @iavs5.bsky.social
Our students also #rocked: Me. Juliano Zardetto on roadside plant invasions and their impacts on native vegetation; Me. @gabrieladezotti.bsky.social on how forb communities respond to fire suppression and @fealvarez.bsky.social on how fire season affects reproductive phenology in the Cerrado
Congratulations to our master's student @luizmiguel.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Wayne Harrison Memorial Scholarship (AFE)! 🎉🔥 We are so proud of you and your project! Let's keep up this amazing work.
Association for Fire Ecology@afe-fireecology.bsky.social · 2mo agoCongratulations to the recipients of the 2026 Wayne Harrison Memorial Scholarship: Rhianna Absher and Luiz Miguel Barbosa! 🔥The scholarships will support their research projects, which you can learn more about here: fireecology.org/safe-news/2026-harrison-scholarship
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
🔥 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
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Exciting week seeing some beautiful Cerrado seeds germinate and learning a lot from the best, @heloizazirondi.bsky.social @leveg.bsky.social 🌱
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! 🔥🌿🐮
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!
Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · last yr.🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 From plant traits to fire behavior: Scaling issues in flammability studies By Dylan Schwilk, Md. Azharul Alam, Nathan Gill et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience
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: alinebbombo@gmail.com 🔗 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!
so proud to be part of this study @agenciafapesp.bsky.social
Milan Chytrý@milanchytry.bsky.social · last yr.🌿 The first article of our DarkDivNet consortium, led by Meelis Pärtel, has been published in Nature. Our dataset from 5500 sites in 119 world regions, collected specially for this purpose, shows that plant diversity is negatively affected not only by direct human impact such as local disturbance.
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
Estudo global revela impacto oculto das atividades humanas na natureza
Levantamento conduzido em 119 regiões do mundo investigou a “diversidade faltante”, isto é, espécies nativas que poderiam estar presentes na localidade, mas estavam ausentes. Resultados foram publicad...
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@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
