What happens when you have a prescribed fire at the end of the dry season, fire of high severity with T>700ºC? The Cerrado blooms! 45 days post-fire and a high proportion of the spp flowering and fruiting. Isn’t that amazing? #Cerrado #FireEcology @leveg.bsky.social @programabiota.bsky.social
This week was full for the seed people at @leveg.bsky.social ! We did germination experiments and sorted a lot of seeds! #seedecology #fireecology
Seed sorting of native Cerrado species 🌱 #seedscience #seedecology #seeds
🔥 Postdoc: Biota-Cerrado on Fire (FAPESP)
3-yr position at LEVeg/Unesp (Brazil) on fire, open ecosystems & functional ecology.
Pós-Doc (3 anos) sobre fogo, ecossistemas abertos e ecologia funcional.
📅 Deadline/Prazo: 30/11/25
🔗 Apply/Inscreva-se: fapesp.br/oportunidade...
#Postdoc #FireEcology
A photograph of the Cerrado landscape, showing the open savanna formation and its rich herbaceous layer with different species of grasses, forbs, and small shrubs.
🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥
Changes in plant flammability-related traits to fire regime characteristics & biomass conditions in the #Cerrado
By Vagner Zanzarini, Davi Rossatto & Alessandra Fidelis
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
Campos Rupestres landscape with open-field vegetation. On the right, two images show belowground organs: above, samples of belowground bud-bearing organs; below, samples of fine roots.
🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥
Modifications in fire frequency impact belowground plant components in old-growth grasslands, posing risks to their resilience
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... @leveg.bsky.social
Terrific opportunity for someone!
Science Director
The Science Director is a new position at Odonata, created to lead the organisation’s conservation science, research, and evidence-based species recovery strategies across all programs and landscapes.
www.odonata.org.au/vacancies
Exciting week seeing some beautiful Cerrado seeds germinate and learning a lot from the best, @heloizazirondi.bsky.social @leveg.bsky.social 🌱
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Smoke experiments going on in our lab! #SeedEcology #FireEcology #Seeds
attending to #GoBelowground this week! meeting so many nice people and already learned so much within these two days. excited for the rest of the week 🤩
A grassland on a sunny day near Boulder, CO
We're recruiting!! Myself along with Nathan Gill, Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org, and Katharine Suding are recruiting people for Master's, PhD, and postdoc positions in GrassFire, an NSF funded project examining fuels and fire risk in grassland ecosystems across the Southern Great Plains! 🔥🌿🐮
Check this out 🔥🔥🔥
www.instagram.com/p/DNq1bhUv3-...
Poster on a poster session at Pheno2025
Poster on a poster session at Pheno2025.
Me and my scientific poster at Pheno2025.
1st scientific conference. "Flames and flowers: fire season drives reproductive timing in the Cerrado" special thanks to Alessandra Fidelis and Heloiza L. Zirondi
"The natural world is the greatest source of excitement [...] It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
How do trees survive fire at the Amazon-Cerrado transition? This graphical abstract reveals how different strategies, like thicker bark, bud protection, and water use efficiency help species survive (or not) in fire-affected areas. The study findings show that fire not only selects the most resilient trees but also reshapes the entire community structure over time.
🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥
Deciphering fire tolerance of #trees at the Amazonia–Cerrado transition by trait-based approach: Implications from species to communities
Wesley Jonatar Cruz, et al.
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
And we talked a lot about seeds at the #ATBC2025! Thanks @caordonezparra.bsky.social for organizing this amazing symposium and delivering this great talk! @heloizazirondi.bsky.social summed up 10 years of our research about fire and seed ecology in the Cerrado! You guys rock!
(EN) Exciting new publication with the participation of @alefidelis.bsky.social. Don’t miss it!
(PT) Nova publicação com a participação de @alefidelis.bsky.social. Não perca!
Dr. Aline Bombo (@alinebombo.bsky.social), post doc in our lab, is now an affiliated professor in the Plant Biology postgrad program at UNICAMP!
She’s advising MSc and PhD students, for more details check out the pictures .
📩 Contact: alinebbombo@gmail.com
🔗 CV (Lattes): lnkd.in/d8xuQbQb
Yesterday the BRIVAC, a volunteer fire brigade, did a prescribed fire during the II Seminário Regional do Manejo Integrado do Fogo. In Brazil, local volunteers are essential for the success of fire management, including during wildfires. Bravo BRIVAC!
Friday, seed day 🌱🤣
so proud to be part of this study @agenciafapesp.bsky.social
Check this out 🔥🌱 youtu.be/kYDsCYNi_Po?... Congrats @alefidelis.bsky.social @leveg.bsky.social
Levantamento feito em 119 regiões do mundo investigou a “diversidade faltante”, isto é, espécies nativas que poderiam estar presentes na localidade, mas estavam ausentes. Resultados acabam de ser publicados em @nature.com. agencia.fapesp.br/54378
@alefidelis.bsky.social @macroecologyut.bsky.social
Thank you!
@heloizazirondi.bsky.social is a Dr now! Congrats Helô! Dr Heloiza L Zirondi - the master of the seeds!
The ISSS has curated a starter pack with seed scientists working on a wide variety of #SeedScience topics, from molecular biology to ecological restoration.
If you want to be part of the starter pack or know another fellow seed scientist, please leave us a comment bellow! go.bsky.app/H38GoMy
Estudo de revisão conduzido por colaboração internacional de cientistas aponta que plantas herbáceas não graminoides são fundamentais para a biodiversidade, o armazenamento de carbono, a regeneração pós-distúrbios e a provisão de serviços ecossistêmicos pelo #Cerrado. agencia.fapesp.br/53710/
Here is a starter pack for scientists and others interested in trait-based ecology and evolution. Still trying to find everyone here. Please let me know if you would like to be added to the list! go.bsky.app/PThMXeX 🧪🌎🌾
Fire ecology and biodiversity conservation are complex.
Some places might need fewer fires, fires at a different scale and/or fires at a different time of year (intensity/severity).
Some places we might need more fire, etc...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Here is the current Fire BlueSky landscape
Fire starter packs:
Fire ecology: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Wildfire experts: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Feeds:
Disasters: Fire bsky.app/profile/did:...
Wildfires (fire science): bsky.app/profile/davi...
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