"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 🦋
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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!
Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe independent of fuel accumulation and climate change: Nature Communications
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fire facilitates ground layer plant diversity in a Miombo ecosystem academic.oup.com/aob/article/...
figure from paper
Indigenous pyrodiversity promotes plant diversity 🌏🧪
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Map showing the sites of the database
FLAMITS: A global database of plant flammability traits
by Ocampo-Zuleta et al. #GEB_macro
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Data: doi.org/10.5061/drya...
🧪🌍🪴🌾🔥📈wildfire botany #PlantScience opendata
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/...
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....
Low-intensity fires mitigate the risk of high-intensity wildfires in California’s forests | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Some long-awaited rains quelling multiple fires across eastern NSW over the last 24hrs.
Herbivory limits plant abundance and diversity at restoration sites globally, even more than in undisturbed ecosystems | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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
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"
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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
A map of Australia showing the locations of threatened species that only occur in cities. Some plants and animals illustrated. By Elia Pirtle
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…
