OK, let's do this again. This is the fire triangle. All three sides must exist. Without any one of heat, oxygen, or fuel, you have no fire. 1/

📢 #SH Italy led by #UNITO 1️⃣Piedmont, May 25-29 📝 Project's deliverables 🔥 Visit to the 2003 and 2017 Mompantero wildfires 🌲 #FireEcology and dendrochronology in Alpine forests 🌱 Pyrosylviculture and prescribed burns in mountain conifer forests 🗺️ A virtual exercise to create fire-resistant forests

Check out the early view of my second PhD article! Focusing on woody productivity dynamics of Cerrado savanna trees, we analyse how NPP changes across different fire regimes, and explore how these responses are mediated by functional traits 🔥🌿 @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social @manumachadoeco.bsky.social

Annals of Botany@annbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Bark protection and light-adapted photosynthesis influence woody productivity of Cerrado trees in changing fire regimes doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Viva done!!! 🎊 Felicidades Dr @navarrosales.bsky.social , que orgullo haberte acompañado en el camino. El mundo gana hoy un excelente científico, y necesita más que nunca personas como tú. 👨‍🎓🔥🌿

This is beyond bad news for fire science worldwide. Some of these stations pioneered both fundamental and applied fire science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/c...

As Wildfire Risks Rise, Forest Service Shutters Labs That Study Them

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📢 First time in Brazil 🇧🇷 / Pela primeira vez no Brasil 🇧🇷 Special Topics: Go Belowground! Tópicos Especiais: Go Belowground! 18–22 May 2026, in person / presencial Apply 16–30 Apr / Inscrições 16–30 abr 20 spots/vagas Motivation letter in English.

Our forest plots in Estação Ecol Serra Araras burned by the 2024 wildfires. They look ‘messy’, but not degraded. They are in an early recovery stage: their canopy cover is dominated by palm Attalea speciosa and understorey with great diversity of herbs and shrubs #Resilience #Recovery

Learning so much about grasses flammability in our CerFogo long-term experimental site, Brasil. This one only burned a part of the plant despite having being ignited in the base, another burnrd totally except its trichomes (leaves hairs)…

Patagonian wildfires show how denying climate change & pushing environmental destruction make the reality of climate change much worse. Threatening the destruction of trees that have been alive when the bronze age collapsed. @wwattribution.bsky.social www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

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.

⚠️ New paper out in Nature Ecology & Evolution 🌱 #Grasslands #SoilCarbon @natecoevo.nature.com

The global extent of the grassland biome and implications for the terrestrial carbon sink - Nature Ecology & Evolution

By combining satellite observations with ground-based data and expert validation, this analysis demonstrates considerable misestimation of grassland extent and thereby carbon stock estimates in previo...

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"Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.

William Bond, defender of grasslands

In recent years, one of the loudest ideas in environmental policy has been that trees are the planet’s universal remedy. Plant enough of them, in enough places, and carbon will be soaked up, water wil...

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Working with dendrometers or curious about dendrometer research? 🌱🌐🍁🌳 🚨 Join the Global Dendrometer Network 🚨 We’re building a global community using dendrometers to study plant growth, stress, phenology & more. Sign up for updates on meetings, data calls & more 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

COP30 TEXT ANALYSIS: One way to read dense COP text is to focus on the verbs. These are helpfully italicised – and for good reason. MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs. 1/4

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

The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity

Our findings provide quantitative evidence that pine plantations can exacerbate fire severity under contemporary climate conditions, and that, once burned, these areas seldom recover. Effective spati...

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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

What changing energy flows reveal about Africa’s ecosystems

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

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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

Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery@naturerecovery.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🌍 New Oxford-led study in Nature finds Africa’s wildlife has lost a third of its natural “power” — the energy driving ecosystems and livelihoods. Large animals once sustained this flow; their loss now reshapes life across the continent. @ymalhi.bsky.social

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

Energy flows reveal declining ecosystem functions by animals across Africa - Nature

An ecosystem energetics approach, quantifying trophic energy flows across species, offers a unified framework for linking animal biodiversity loss to changes in ecosystem function and Earth system pro...

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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 😊

Francisco Navarro-Rosales: Studying Plant Resilience in the Cerrado and Beyond

Botany One interviews Francisco Navarro-Rosales, a PhD student fascinated by fire ecology in tropical ecosystems.

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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/...

ATBC Code of Conduct

Click on the article title to read more.

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⚡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....

Lightning Impacts on Global Forest and Carbon Dynamics: Current Understanding and Knowledge Gaps

Lightning is a fundamental Earth system process that influences the world's major forest biomes and their carbon storage through two primary pathways. Lightning is the major cause of boreal forest fi....

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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

Communications Biology@commsbio.nature.com · last yr.

Testing ecophysiological theory using tree traits along a vapour pressure deficit (VPD) gradient shows, as predicted, that photosynthetic capacity is higher at higher VPD sites. Contrary to the predictions, potential water conductivity tends to increase with higher VPD. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

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

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · last yr.

🔥🌱 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...

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

Francisco Navarro-Rosales@navarrosales.bsky.social · last yr.

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...