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Dr Andy Baker

@andybaker.bsky.social
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Fire, vegetation and restoration ecologist. Learning to look after Country through the restoration of Good Fire. Living on Bundjalung Country. www.wildsite.com.au

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"In conclusion, our results underscore the adverse impact of a zero-fire policy on insect communities, including fruit-feeding butterflies, within this unique ecosystem." Freire-Jr et al. 🧪🌍🌿🔥🌳 wildfire 🦋 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Fostering Biodiversity in Neotropical Savannahs: Fire as a Diversity Driver for Fruit‐Feeding Butterfly Assemblages in the Cerrado
The more frequently burnt areas with shorter time intervals since the last burn episode exhibited higher levels of biodiversity compared to sites where fires were less frequent and under longer inter...
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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
Please check out our new paper in Nature Communications titled "Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation" 🧪🌏 Lead author = U Montana PhD student Mark Kreider!
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Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation - Nature Communications
Fire suppression removes less-extreme wildfires, concentrating fires under extreme conditions. The authors use model simulations to show how this “suppression bias” intensifies fire behavior and effec...
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Dr Andy Baker @andybaker.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe independent of fuel accumulation and climate change: Nature Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dr Andy Baker @andybaker.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Fire facilitates ground layer plant diversity in a Miombo ecosystem academic.oup.com/aob/article/...
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
Indigenous pyrodiversity promotes plant diversity 🌏🧪 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
figure from paper
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 25/12/2023
FLAMITS: A global database of plant flammability traits by Ocampo-Zuleta et al. #GEB_macro Article: doi.org/10.1111/geb.... Data: doi.org/10.5061/drya... 🧪🌍🪴🌾🔥📈wildfire botany #PlantScience opendata
Map showing the sites of the database
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Forrest Fleischman @forrestf.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Dense closed canopy forests are less "natural" than many global modelers seem to think. Cool new paper about the ecological history of Europe. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo ...
Landscape reconstruction using pollen data shows that European temperate forests were open and heterogeneous before modern humans.
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Dr Andy Baker @andybaker.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Understanding Fire Regimes for a Better Anthropocene Must-read (open-access) review in 'Annual Review of Environment and Resources' #FireRegimes #Anthropocene www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10....
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Dr Andy Baker @andybaker.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
Low-intensity fires mitigate the risk of high-intensity wildfires in California’s forests | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Science | AAAS
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Dr Andy Baker @andybaker.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
Some long-awaited rains quelling multiple fires across eastern NSW over the last 24hrs.
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Dr Andy Baker @andybaker.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Herbivory limits plant abundance and diversity at restoration sites globally, even more than in undisturbed ecosystems | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Herbivory limits success of vegetation restoration globally
A meta-analysis shows that stronger effects of herbivory at restored sites limit restoration success.
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
No evidence of a decline in diversity 18 months after the 2019-20 Australian mega fires. In fact, there is an overall increase! with a decrease in extreme fire severity patches onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #@GlobalChangeBio by Gorta et al. 🧪🌍🔥biodiversity wildfires #ausnews #wildoz
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Zack Steel 🪶🦇🌲🔥 @zacksteel.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Interested in how fire affects biodiversity? 🔥🐦🦇🐝🌿 We have a new paper synthesizing work and building a framework for future research and application focused on the hypothesis that "Pyrodiversity begets biodiversity" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A roadmap for pyrodiversity science
The Journal of Biogeography explores the intersection of biology and geography, describing patterns and mechanisms that shape biodiversity through time and space.
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Dr Andy Baker @andybaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
A little intro post… I’m a lecturer in fire ecology in Australia. Restoring open ecosystems, restoring beneficial fire regimes and science communication are my core passions. I’ve been a consulting fire, vegetation and restoration ecologist for 25+ years. 👉www.wildsite.com.au
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Dr Kylie Soanes @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Did you know that cities are great places for nature conservation? In fact, sometimes they’re *necessary*. Our research found 39 threatened species that ONLY occur in Australia’s urban environments. So we better get better at sharing cities with nature theconversation.com/the-39-endange…
A map of Australia showing the locations of threatened species that only occur in cities. Some plants and animals illustrated. By Elia Pirtle
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