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Jim Whittington🔥 @jimwhittington.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

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/

Fire triangle with sides made of oxygen, fuel, and heat.

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FIRE-ADAPT @fire-adapt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

📢 #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

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Francisco Navarro-Rosales @navarrosales.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

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. 👨‍🎓🔥🌿

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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...

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

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Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (LEVeg) 🌾 @leveg.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

📢 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.

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

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)…

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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...

a map of southern south America showing the location of burning fires with lots of red dots.

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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.

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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - M/F Postdoctorat projet FEVER: Fire effects on vegetation productivity and nutrient fluxes in Mediterranean ecosystems

Assurez-vous que votre profil candidat soit correctement renseigné avant de postuler

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Caroline Lehmann @caroaceae.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"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.

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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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Daniela Nemetschek (Krebber) @danielanemetschek.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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...

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 22/11/2025

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

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Nature @nature.com · 30/10/2025

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

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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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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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/...

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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

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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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Francisco Navarro-Rosales @navarrosales.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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 😊

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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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Francisco Navarro-Rosales @navarrosales.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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/...

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ATBC Code of Conduct

Click on the article title to read more.

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Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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...

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Aims and scope - Journal of Pyrogeography | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest articles of Journal of Pyrogeography at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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 !

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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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.

GOES- West 3.7 micron channel showing active forest fires - white and red areaa - look for the gold line

Map of Canada showing location and status of forest fires.
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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Read a summary of science results in this post! Thank you @unemat @icmbio for the partnership

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

After 8 years of continuous monitoring we have published the first results of our long term CerFogo experimental fire project as part of @navarrosales.bsky.social PhD thesis. Very happy to see this milestone accomplished! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The effect of fire on the carbon fluxes and productivity of Brazilian woodland savannas

The effects of altered fire regimes within open ecosystems are poorly understood and can have serious consequences on functioning and conservation acr…

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Francisco Navarro-Rosales @navarrosales.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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...

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The effect of fire on the carbon fluxes and productivity of Brazilian woodland savannas

The effects of altered fire regimes within open ecosystems are poorly understood and can have serious consequences on functioning and conservation acr…

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UMR AMAP @umramap.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

New article from Imma Oliveras (@ioliverasmenor.bsky.social) Roland H., Matos I. S., Rosado B. H. P., Oliveras Menor I. 2025. Non-additive effects on plant mixtures flammability in a tropical mountain ecosystem. International Journal of Wildland Fire doi.org/10.1071/WF24...

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Non-additive effects on plant mixtures flammability in a tropical mountain ecosystem

Background Consumability, a component of flammability, describes how well plants burn and may be influenced by species traits and climate change. However, knowledge gaps remain regarding how species m...

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FIRE-ADAPT @fire-adapt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

📢 New article out! #FIREADAPT Early Stage Researcher glspadoni.bsky.social is the corresponding author of "Devegetation is a widespread driver of fire in the Brazilian Cerrado" in the #JournalOfEnvironmentalManagement. Congrats Gian Luca & co-authors! 👏 Read 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Hyperdominance in the world's most diverse savanna. The Cerrado has more than 1,600 tree species, and yet just 30 make up half of all trees. Congratulations to Facundo Alvarez and colleagues for this pan-Cerrado analysis using hundreds of plots. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Tree species hyperdominance and rarity in the South American Cerrado - Communications Biology

The South American Cerrado has an estimated ~1605 tree species, yet > 2% make up half of all trees. Since 1995, the savanna lost 24 billion trees, threatening its biodiversity. Urgent conservation ...

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Oh I can’t help it, feels a bit sentimental. RIP Skype - so many procrastination afternoons on your chat. So many calls (family, friends, work). And that ringtone…

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Francisco Navarro-Rosales @navarrosales.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

The NEOFIRE team led by @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social has just returned from a 6-week functional traits campaign at Serra das Araras, Brazil! There, I measured photosynthetic and leaf traits of 102 Cerrado trees under different fire regimes @umramap.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 22/04/2025

A new theme issue of #PhilTransB looks at #fire risks and the joint effects of #climate, vegetation and human activity: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

New thematic issue of Phil. Trans. Roy Soc B is out @royalsociety.org Novel wildfire regimes under climate change and human influences: impacts, ecosystem responses and feedbacks 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿 Eds Zehao Shen, Kate Giljohann, Zhihua Liu, Brendan M. Rogers and @jgpausas.bsky.social

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1924

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Another bird left the nest. Congratulations Dr Spadoni!! 🤩🥳 Looking forward to many collaborations. Thesis partially funded by @fire-adapt.bsky.social 🔥

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Adrian Regos @adrianregos.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

🔥 Excited to be part of this amazing team at the @fire-adapt.bsky.social project! 📢 Check out our latest publication: "Integrated fire management as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes" 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43... #WildfireResilience #ClimateAction

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

How can Integrated Fire Management be implemented as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes? This perspective provides an overview of IFM across different regions worldwide and presents a roadmap of implementation maximizing its potential to benefit both people and nature.

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Integrated fire management as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes - Communications Earth & Environment

Integrated Fire Management can be used as a valuable adaptation and mitigation strategy combining fire prevention, response, and recovery across different ecological, socio-economic, and cultural cont...

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

What role does fire play in rewilding? @navarrosales.bsky.social reviews the current state of art and finds four distinct discourses: fire as an ecosystem process; fire as a socioecological risk; fire as a potential hazard; fire management put at risk by rewilding. doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...

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Redirecting

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Francisco Navarro-Rosales @navarrosales.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Understanding the role of fire in the context of rewilding is critical for effective scaling up of nature recovery. In this new paper, @chloestrevens.bsky.social, @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social and I review and synthesise the literature to find four main discourses: doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests - Nature

Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical fo...

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Our new work led by @jeaggu.bsky.social and with 124 co-authors is featured in science cover! Congratulations to Jesus by his wonderful leadership 🤩

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Jesús Aguirre Gutiérrez @jeaggu.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Are tropical forests in the Americas changing as adaptation to ongoing climate change? Yes, they are! Are these changes enough to track their suitable climate? Not quite! Check out our paper in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... to see more of what our network has been working on!

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Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change

Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...

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Imma Oliveras Menor @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This week I resigned from being Special Editor for a journal whose Editor-in-Chief didn’t show respect to peer editors or authors. The point of posting this is not to disclose names, but to report some fairly common and wrong practices in the peer-review process.

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