Prospective PhD students interested in Stanford should consider applying to the @knighthennessy.bsky.social fellowship program. Information sessions are taking place in the next few days/weeks. apply.knight-hennessy.stanford.edu/portal/admis...
The area burned in the Canadian 2025 fire season has hit 5 million ha. Third active fire season in a row that combined has burned 7% of the Canadian forest. Currently we have 346 fires out of control (192 monitored out of control (OC) and 154 OC that are being actioned) so expect the number to rise.
We recommend that fire management strategies for preserving biodiversity should consider both social and ecological factors, iterative learning informed by effective monitoring, and developing and testing new management actions. An integrated approach to learning about fire and biodiversity will help to navigate the complexities of novel fire regimes and preserve biodiversity in a rapidly changing world.
2) The use of fire to preserve biodiversity under novel fire regimes
@fire-adapt.bsky.social led by @PuigGirones @PPons
We synthesize recent research on fire use and biodiversity, and provide a decision-making framework for biodiversity conservation under novel fire regimes.
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Now out! Contains a review by us on fire regime changes on the Eurasian steppes following collapse and recovery of livestock systems.
royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Simplified scheme of the two evolutionary mechanisms (top-down vs bottom-up) explaining the relationship between plants and their environment
What are the ultimate factors controlling fire regimes? The case of boreal forests royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Phil Trans Roy Soc B, @royalsociety.org
With JE Keeley & @dramalamujer.bsky.social
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/04/17/t...
🧪🌍🔥🌳🌐🍁🌾 wildfire #philsci #ecoevo
Flyer header that shows a photo of John Mills and states the date and time as April 17, 2025 from 1-3 pm for the 2025 Wildfire outlook.
QR code to register for the zoom seminar and get full schedule.
On 4/17 @ucmerced.bsky.social Fire Resilience Center will host John Mills, CEO and co-founder of @watchduty.org AND have discussion with @climate-guy.bsky.social and Dr. Sandie Ha on:
1) The upcoming fire season in CA
2) How you can prepare, esp. for smoke
We're streaming it online - join us!
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...
In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social
Dry years are fuelling UK #peatland fire carbon emissions
New study by @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @metoffice.bsky.social @gsiexeter.bsky.social Dr Sarah Baker @richardabetts.bsky.social @afapellegrini.bsky.social
Full paper 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Press release 👇
Burning of #peatland during dry years drove UK #wildfire carbon emissions from 2001-2021. Peat #emissions are expected to rise by 60% solely via drier conditions increasing potential burn depths under a +2C global warming scenario. Led by Sarah Baker. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Hello plant world, does anyone have a pdf of Lacey & Whelan 1976 from Australian Forestry? Fabulously titled "Observations on the ecological significance of vegetative reproduction in the Katherine-Darwin Region of the Northern Territory".
NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds.
This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.
I couldn't have asked for a better place to start a career than Cambridge, and look forward to maintaining all our ongoing projects throughout the transition.
Pleased to announce that the Pellegrini group will be moving to Stanford University to join the Department of Earth System Science in the Doerr School of Sustainability in Sept. 2025. If you're interested in working on Qs regarding how systems respond to global change, contact me!
Recovery Following Recurrent Fires Across
Mediterranean Ecosystems
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Burned over forest (Fort McMurray Fire May 2016) with some smouldering still going on as well as some new regeneration coming up
The Faculty of Environment and Natural Resource, University of Freiburg invites applications for a Full Professorship (W 3) for Fire Ecology in the Department of Forest Sciences.
uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
This is figure 2 from “A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit.” It shows strong warming trends place the first 1.5 °C year within the 1.5 °C 20-year period.
Two papers in Nature Climate Change suggest that exceeding 1.5 °C in 2024 may indicate that we have entered a multi-decadal period of 1.5 °C average global warming.
https://go.nature.com/4hR9GYO
https://go.nature.com/3WVdJM1
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PhD student, Martin Baur, published an excellent first chapter: Ecosystems experience faster soil moisture losses after wildfires, and recovering plants tend to have less control on their water content @naturegeosci.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 New paper alert! Today in Nature Climate Change, we unpack the climate resilient development pathways from the @ipcc.bsky.social AR6 chapter from 2022. Led by @sirier.bsky.social w/ her never ending commitment to clarifying climate resilient development. 🎩
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
New faculty position in climate change ecology at UW-Madison, applications due in four days for full consideration. Come join us!
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Three (!) positions as Assistant Professor in #Biodiversity
We hope to get one to our department #biogeography
A super recruitment within Life sciences. Maximum of 7 since PhD 🌍🧪
#biodiversity #academic #climatechange #lifescience #ecology #StockholmUniversity
Please re-🦋
www.su.se/english/news...
Link to our new study: Australia's recently established #predators restore #complexity to #foodwebs simplified by #extinction @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol... - big thx to @eamonn-wooster.bsky.social for leading! 🐾🐈⬛🦊#alienspecies #megafauna
