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Wuchao Gao

@wuchaogao.bsky.social
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My research focuses on fire and global ecology, climate change, remote sensing, plant ecophysiology, ecosystem functioning,macroecology, biogeochemistry, sustainability, and food security. CV: scholar.google.com/citations?user=g…

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Wuchao Gao @wuchaogao.bsky.social · 15h
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Forests under climate stress - Nature Geoscience
Nature Geoscience spoke with Ana Bastos (Leipzig University, Germany) and Sonia I. Seneviratne (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) about how climate change is reshaping forest ecosystems, how forests and land-u...
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Petr Procházka @rytikerttunen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#ornithology
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Wuchao Gao @wuchaogao.bsky.social · 19h
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Functional similarity shapes global patterns of fish naturalization and invasion richness | PNAS
Freshwater ecosystems are among the most threatened by biological invasions, but it remains unclear why some exotics are more likely to be successf...
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Wuchao Gao @wuchaogao.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
¿Arden más los espacios protegidos? Cuando los datos no justifican el relato theconversation.com/arden-mas-lo...
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¿Arden más los espacios protegidos? Cuando los datos no justifican el relato
Diversos estudios han alimentado la idea de que la protección de espacios naturales favorece la acumulación de vegetación y el riesgo de incendio. Pero los datos no demuestran esa relación causal.
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Wuchao Gao @wuchaogao.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 29/09/2026
As the climate warms, compound drought and heat wave events are becoming more frequent and intense across the contiguous United States. Areas at high risk for such events are disproportionately poor, unhealthy, and rural. In PNAS: ow.ly/nqfA50ZSNx3
Drought-damaged corn and cracked soil.
CREDIT: Bob Nichols/USDA.
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Wuchao Gao @wuchaogao.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Resolving the fire governance paradox in an increasingly fire-prone world - Communications Earth & Environment
Fire governance must move beyond uniform suppression toward legitimate, adaptive, and context-specific policies aligned with ecological dynamics and local livelihoods, based on evidence from Madagasca...
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Wuchao Gao @wuchaogao.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Nature @nature.com · 26/09/2026
Artificial-intelligence systems can generate hypotheses, design experiments and analyse data — but humans still need to decide what makes sense go.nature.com/4hLtEqL
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AI co-scientists are revolutionizing how research is done
Nature - Artificial-intelligence systems can generate hypotheses, design experiments and analyse data — but humans still need to decide what makes sense.
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Wuchao Gao @wuchaogao.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Conifer trees can prosper half a world away from their usual home
Northern Hemisphere trees planted in the Southern Hemisphere can thrive, displaying increased stem growth and physiological signals linked to reduced stress.
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Nature @nature.com · 23/09/2026
Nature research paper: The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases go.nature.com/46HjGk5
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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature
Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data on outbreaks are currently limited by inequalities in healthcare access.
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Nature @nature.com · 23/09/2026
There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. Science shows ways to keep the brain sharp go.nature.com/3THcotH
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How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking
There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.
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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Systems Ecology, a new journal launched today, "run by researchers, for researchers, and is free to read and free to publish, with no article processing charges" systems-ecology.org/index.php/se...
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Systems Ecology
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 22/09/2026
Irrigation increases crop yields, which reduces the need for agricultural land and thus the clearing of forests and associated carbon emissions. A study estimates that US irrigation provides an estimated gross GHG benefit of 6.86 Gt CO2e annually. In PNAS: ow.ly/Rura50ZPSuB
Net GHG emissions from irrigation in the United States. Total national impacts by source of emission under the current and zero-irrigation scenarios.
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Nature @nature.com · 22/09/2026
From southern Africa to the Amazon, the risks of the worst El Niño in recorded history are mounting and the window for action is rapidly closing, says Zeke Hausfather go.nature.com/4cZcfZ1
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The worst El Niño in recorded history is brewing — here’s how governments must prepare
From southern Africa to the Amazon, the risks are mounting and the window for action is rapidly closing.
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Wuchao Gao @wuchaogao.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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How networks and the Global Environment Facility can turn national reporting into lasting biodiversity monitoring capacity - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
The first cycle of national reporting under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework revealed that a gap persists between what parties must measure and what most report. Closing this impleme...
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Wuchao Gao @wuchaogao.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Biodiversity science’s missing species
This week in the United States, a Trump administration rule took effect that narrows the meaning of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act by abandoning a long-standing interpretation that recognized...
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Wuchao Gao @wuchaogao.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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As forests burn, can we replant trees ready for a warmer world?
Ecologists testing “assisted migration” are pushing seedlings to the limits—and finding that location matters
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Wuchao Gao @wuchaogao.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Pistacia lentiscus, Atriplex halimus, Ficus carica, Osyris alba, Margotia gummifera?
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Nature @nature.com · 14/09/2026
The extreme weather of this year’s mega El Niño could look different from past events go.nature.com/4yG6xns
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The super El Niño is already wreaking havoc: here’s what’s in store
The extreme weather of this year’s mega El Niño could look different from past events.
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Each wildfire is different. In this one, the first plants to flower postfire seem to be Guillonea scabra (Apiaceae) and Daphne gnidium (Thymelaeaceae). It burned at the end of July (E Spain). #IFValldUixó 🧪🌍🔥🌱🍁🪴🌿 #PlantSci botany wildfire
Guillonea scabra flowering in a burned landscape
(Species name to be confirmed when fruiting)Resprout of Daphne gnidium postfire
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 11/09/2026
One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Recent high-severity wildfires in a dry-conifer landscape are unprecedented over five centuries and foretell future forest loss.” Read now: ow.ly/v1oR50ZM4BE For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/pH5050ZM4Aj.
Dry-conifer forest loss from high-severity fires in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico (1995–2023). (A) Photograph of dry-conifer forest from St. Peter’s Dome Lookout, facing south. (B) Repeat photograph showing the near-complete conifer forest loss (mortality and lack of regeneration) following two high-severity fires (1996 Dome Fire and 2011 Las Conchas Fire).
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Wuchao Gao @wuchaogao.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
lnkd.in/p/e-hXJN2kPr... Prevention and Restoration of Forest Fires in Agriculture and Forests
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Prevención y restauración de incendios forestales en la agricultura y los bosques | Jeremie Crespin
La nueva página web de la Dirección General de Agricultura (DG AGRI) explica el papel de la agricultura y la silvicultura en la lucha contra los incendios forestales. Asimismo, explica la importancia ...
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yes, 'El Niño-fuelled wildfires', but these wildfires are also fuelled by deforestation, land clearing, the drainage of peatlands for palm oil plantations, etc. While dry conditions exacerbate the problem, they are not the sole cause; there is also a direct human impact 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁 wildfire #conservation
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Wuchao Gao @wuchaogao.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wo. Amazing. So, about 3,000 years ago?
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Nature @nature.com · 05/09/2026
Nature research paper: The nutritional value of invertebrate aquatic foods go.nature.com/4gxGjgB
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The nutritional value of invertebrate aquatic foods - Nature
Aquatic invertebrates are exceptionally nutrient dense, supplying the equivalent annual vitamin B12 and selenium requirements for over 5 billion people.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 04/09/2026
Butterfly populations across the U.S. are in alarming decline, a 2025 Science study found. ⁠ The authors note that butterflies have the potential for rapid recovery under favorable conditions, showing the importance of proactive conservation strategies.⁠ scim.ag/46vegsb #NationalWildlifeDay
Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century
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Wuchao Gao @wuchaogao.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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They describe for the first time the effects of a fire exacerbated by climate change on a beech forest in León
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Nature @nature.com · 03/09/2026
This year’s Ig Nobel prizes, awarded on 3 September, include a biomechanics prize for creating a precise definition of kissing and a soil-science award for investigating what happens if you bury and then dig up 1,000 pairs of underwear. go.nature.com/3URhWC0
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Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes
The awards highlight weird, funny and improbable research that also makes you think.
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm giddy over this glowing @science.org review of Tyrant Lizard Queen "Black’s characterization of Snag is reminiscent of Jack London’s White Fang...Tyrant Lizard Queen is a wonderfully fascinating and gripping interpretation of the fossil record that animates one of Earth’s most iconic dinosaurs"
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Fall Books 2026
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Nature @nature.com · 02/09/2026
Pines grow faster and are more drought resilient in the Southern Hemisphere go.nature.com/3UtYZoV
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Pines grow faster and are more drought resilient in the Southern Hemisphere - Nature
Non-native conifers from the Northern Hemisphere grow faster and are more drought resistant and resilient in the Southern Hemisphere, where they seem to escape the growth–stress-tolerance trade-off.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 28/08/2026
A deep dive into the capacity for trees to physiologically adapt to drought reaches a sobering conclusion: Trees have little ability to change their inner hydraulic systems to accommodate increasing levels of drought as the climate changes. In PNAS: ow.ly/rcBR50ZFVIC
A global map of the 40 rainfall-exclusion experiment sites (yellow dots) across forested regions analyzed in the study.
CREDIT: Xingyun Liang.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 28/08/2026
One of the few general rules in ecology is that biodiversity increases as you approach the equator. But there’s an exception. The global latitudinal diversity gradient for birds is three times weaker in cities than in natural areas. In PNAS: ow.ly/9xmR50ZFVLZ
Eurasian collared dove perched in a city. Stock photo. 
CREDIT: Eyo Space
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