#fireecology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fireecology, aggregated by home.social.
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Frelich said the swaths of woods that are burning are mostly evergreen, specifically fir and spruce that form the backbone of the boreal forest. They’ve been baked to a tinder by the dry heat wave, creating “just the right or just the wrong configuration, depending on your point of view,” he said.
“Boreal conifer fuel types are among the most flammable in the world — and among the most intense when they burn," he said in a phone interview Tuesday. “So many tons of combustible fuel per acre ... a lot of boreal forest fires simply can’t be suppressed.”
The only thing that could put out the fires quickly would be a deluge.
— from the article
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Frelich said the swaths of woods that are burning are mostly evergreen, specifically fir and spruce that form the backbone of the boreal forest. They’ve been baked to a tinder by the dry heat wave, creating “just the right or just the wrong configuration, depending on your point of view,” he said.
“Boreal conifer fuel types are among the most flammable in the world — and among the most intense when they burn," he said in a phone interview Tuesday. “So many tons of combustible fuel per acre ... a lot of boreal forest fires simply can’t be suppressed.”
The only thing that could put out the fires quickly would be a deluge.
— from the article
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RE: https://botany.social/@AnnBot/116618598941198902
A #drought during the critical stages of post-fire recovery could filter individuals that perform better under water stress. This could be particularly relevant for species with a narrow post-fire establishment window that depends strongly on water availability 🔥🌱
Take a look at our latest advances 👇
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RE: https://botany.social/@AnnBot/116618598941198902
A #drought during the critical stages of post-fire recovery could filter individuals that perform better under water stress. This could be particularly relevant for species with a narrow post-fire establishment window that depends strongly on water availability 🔥🌱
Take a look at our latest advances 👇
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Productive #paleofire workshop at #PennState last week - coincidentally closed with a prescribed burn near the campus in State College, PA 🔥
Many thanks to Sarah Ivory for invitation and the great organization! #RxFire #FireEcology #PalaeOpen -
Productive #paleofire workshop at #PennState last week - coincidentally closed with a prescribed burn near the campus in State College, PA 🔥
Many thanks to Sarah Ivory for invitation and the great organization! #RxFire #FireEcology #PalaeOpen -
Following severe wildfires, fast-growing, highly flammable invasive grasses rapidly colonize denuded landscapes, acting as combustible runways that significantly elevate the risk and severity of subsequent fires.
#FireEcology #Ecology #Environmental #ClimateChange #sflorg
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Following severe wildfires, fast-growing, highly flammable invasive grasses rapidly colonize denuded landscapes, acting as combustible runways that significantly elevate the risk and severity of subsequent fires.
#FireEcology #Ecology #Environmental #ClimateChange #sflorg
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I took this in Detroit, Oregon after the 2020 fires.
A washing machine melted into something unrecognizable. Soil sterilized.
This is the reality Patrick Moore waves away in Chapter 9 of his anti–climate change book.Read my full rebuttal:
https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/roam/patrick-moore-wildfires-climate-change.html#Wildfires #ClimateChange #Oregon #FireEcology #ClimateCrisis #PacificNorthwest
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Populus Tremuloides [Aka Aspen] As A Natural Fire Barrier In Canada’s Boreal Forest Under A Changing Climate
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123671 <-- shared paper 🔗
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #flammable #barrier #extremeweather #fireweather #fireactivity #wildfire #bushfire #fire #firebreak #FireKnowledge #FireEcology #AspenTrees #Canada #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #forest #risk #hazard #damage #climatechange #warming #tree #mixed #diversity #species #perimeter #ecozones #ecology #geostatistics #forest #forestcover #burn #severity #stand #burnarea #management #aspen #populustremuloides #Fireactivity #Burnseverity #Fireweather #Deciduous #Phenology
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Populus Tremuloides [Aka Aspen] As A Natural Fire Barrier In Canada’s Boreal Forest Under A Changing Climate
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123671 <-- shared paper 🔗
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #flammable #barrier #extremeweather #fireweather #fireactivity #wildfire #bushfire #fire #firebreak #FireKnowledge #FireEcology #AspenTrees #Canada #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #forest #risk #hazard #damage #climatechange #warming #tree #mixed #diversity #species #perimeter #ecozones #ecology #geostatistics #forest #forestcover #burn #severity #stand #burnarea #management #aspen #populustremuloides #Fireactivity #Burnseverity #Fireweather #Deciduous #Phenology
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Populus Tremuloides [Aka Aspen] As A Natural Fire Barrier In Canada’s Boreal Forest Under A Changing Climate
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123671 <-- shared paper 🔗
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #flammable #barrier #extremeweather #fireweather #fireactivity #wildfire #bushfire #fire #firebreak #FireKnowledge #FireEcology #AspenTrees #Canada #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #forest #risk #hazard #damage #climatechange #warming #tree #mixed #diversity #species #perimeter #ecozones #ecology #geostatistics #forest #forestcover #burn #severity #stand #burnarea #management #aspen #populustremuloides #Fireactivity #Burnseverity #Fireweather #Deciduous #Phenology
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Populus Tremuloides [Aka Aspen] As A Natural Fire Barrier In Canada’s Boreal Forest Under A Changing Climate
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123671 <-- shared paper 🔗
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #flammable #barrier #extremeweather #fireweather #fireactivity #wildfire #bushfire #fire #firebreak #FireKnowledge #FireEcology #AspenTrees #Canada #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #forest #risk #hazard #damage #climatechange #warming #tree #mixed #diversity #species #perimeter #ecozones #ecology #geostatistics #forest #forestcover #burn #severity #stand #burnarea #management #aspen #populustremuloides #Fireactivity #Burnseverity #Fireweather #Deciduous #Phenology
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Populus Tremuloides [Aka Aspen] As A Natural Fire Barrier In Canada’s Boreal Forest Under A Changing Climate
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123671 <-- shared paper 🔗
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #flammable #barrier #extremeweather #fireweather #fireactivity #wildfire #bushfire #fire #firebreak #FireKnowledge #FireEcology #AspenTrees #Canada #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #forest #risk #hazard #damage #climatechange #warming #tree #mixed #diversity #species #perimeter #ecozones #ecology #geostatistics #forest #forestcover #burn #severity #stand #burnarea #management #aspen #populustremuloides #Fireactivity #Burnseverity #Fireweather #Deciduous #Phenology
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Really enjoyed this study from Ruby Paroissien at UNSW and the Australian Plantbank, looking at seed dispersal in the wet sclerophyll forests of SE Aus following the 2019/20 disaster fire season.
They found that post-fire seed dispersal from rainforest species was almost entirely absent 😟 hugely concerning when we have begun to see some of our oldest rainforests burn.
A highlight of the paper is Ruby's hand-drawn seed illustrations!
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Really enjoyed this study from Ruby Paroissien at UNSW and the Australian Plantbank, looking at seed dispersal in the wet sclerophyll forests of SE Aus following the 2019/20 disaster fire season.
They found that post-fire seed dispersal from rainforest species was almost entirely absent 😟 hugely concerning when we have begun to see some of our oldest rainforests burn.
A highlight of the paper is Ruby's hand-drawn seed illustrations!
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For anyone interested in #ecology, specifically #FireEcology, here is a little #simulation I created several years ago...
https://richard.mdpaths.com/projects/fire_ecology/index.html
It is also a good example of using a #hexagonal grid on a #web page.
Northern #Minnesota #BWCA
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For anyone interested in #ecology, specifically #FireEcology, here is a little #simulation I created several years ago...
https://richard.mdpaths.com/projects/fire_ecology/index.html
It is also a good example of using a #hexagonal grid on a #web page.
Northern #Minnesota #BWCA
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17-Dec-2025
Nearly three-quarters of western US overdue for #wildfires
For a decade, nearly four million hectares per year would need to burn just to catch up -
17-Dec-2025
Nearly three-quarters of western US overdue for #wildfires
For a decade, nearly four million hectares per year would need to burn just to catch up -
Rapid postfire color shift in a Mediterranean lizard
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzo.70083 | @jzoology.bsky.social#Lizards inhabiting recently burned areas display lighter coloration, as a #thermoregulatory response
🧪🌍🔥🦎📏 #trait #fauna #zoology #JZoo #wildfire #fireecology #fire @ecology @wildfirescience
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Rapid postfire color shift in a Mediterranean lizard
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzo.70083 | @jzoology.bsky.social#Lizards inhabiting recently burned areas display lighter coloration, as a #thermoregulatory response
🧪🌍🔥🦎📏 #trait #fauna #zoology #JZoo #wildfire #fireecology #fire @ecology @wildfirescience
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Rapid postfire color shift in a Mediterranean lizard
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzo.70083 | @jzoology.bsky.social#Lizards inhabiting recently burned areas display lighter coloration, as a #thermoregulatory response
🧪🌍🔥🦎📏 #trait #fauna #zoology #JZoo #wildfire #fireecology #fire @ecology @wildfirescience
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Rapid postfire color shift in a Mediterranean lizard
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzo.70083 | @jzoology.bsky.social#Lizards inhabiting recently burned areas display lighter coloration, as a #thermoregulatory response
🧪🌍🔥🦎📏 #trait #fauna #zoology #JZoo #wildfire #fireecology #fire @ecology @wildfirescience
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Rapid postfire color shift in a Mediterranean lizard
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzo.70083 | @jzoology.bsky.social#Lizards inhabiting recently burned areas display lighter coloration, as a #thermoregulatory response
🧪🌍🔥🦎📏 #trait #fauna #zoology #JZoo #wildfire #fireecology #fire @ecology @wildfirescience
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#Fire alters the #phenotype of individual #plants, potentially through #epigenetic mechanisms
New paper:
Phenotypic rebuilding after fire: Understanding within-individual variability in a Mediterranean shrub https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.70137
By Saiz-Blanco, @cmhmaliani et al @JEcology@ecology @plants @botany @wildfirescience @plantscience @nature @epigenetics @biodiversity @evolution @ecologies #fireecology #resprouting
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#Fire alters the #phenotype of individual #plants, potentially through #epigenetic mechanisms
New paper:
Phenotypic rebuilding after fire: Understanding within-individual variability in a Mediterranean shrub https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.70137
By Saiz-Blanco, @cmhmaliani et al @JEcology@ecology @plants @botany @wildfirescience @plantscience @nature @epigenetics @biodiversity @evolution @ecologies #fireecology #resprouting
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#Fire alters the #phenotype of individual #plants, potentially through #epigenetic mechanisms
New paper:
Phenotypic rebuilding after fire: Understanding within-individual variability in a Mediterranean shrub https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.70137
By Saiz-Blanco, @cmhmaliani et al @JEcology@ecology @plants @botany @wildfirescience @plantscience @nature @epigenetics @biodiversity @evolution @ecologies #fireecology #resprouting
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#Fire alters the #phenotype of individual #plants, potentially through #epigenetic mechanisms
New paper:
Phenotypic rebuilding after fire: Understanding within-individual variability in a Mediterranean shrub https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.70137
By Saiz-Blanco, @cmhmaliani et al @JEcology@ecology @plants @botany @wildfirescience @plantscience @nature @epigenetics @biodiversity @evolution @ecologies #fireecology #resprouting
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#FrançoisPimont, #écologue : « Stopper les incendies dans les premières minutes sera de plus en plus difficile à l’avenir, avec des feux plus nombreux et plus rapides »
Dans un entretien au « #LeMonde », l’ingénieur de recherche à l’Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement estime que les incendies pourraient doubler voire tripler en France avec un réchauffement de 4 °C. #feuxdeforets #forestfire #wildfire #rechauffementclimatique #changementsclimatiques #climatechange #fireecology #firemodelling
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#FrançoisPimont, #écologue : « Stopper les incendies dans les premières minutes sera de plus en plus difficile à l’avenir, avec des feux plus nombreux et plus rapides »
Dans un entretien au « #LeMonde », l’ingénieur de recherche à l’Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement estime que les incendies pourraient doubler voire tripler en France avec un réchauffement de 4 °C. #feuxdeforets #forestfire #wildfire #rechauffementclimatique #changementsclimatiques #climatechange #fireecology #firemodelling
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Susie Madrak uncovers alarming concerns about the upcoming wildfire season, worsened by extreme heat and budget cuts from the Trump era. Federal fire crews warn that slashed resources hinder their ability to manage vast public lands, complicating wildfire responses. A new directive could further muddle efforts as they prepare for a potentially disastrous season. Click to read more insights from this crucial article. https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/thanks-trump-were-not-unprepared-wildfire #WildfireSeason #ClimateChange #USForestService #FireEcology #PublicLandManagement
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Millions of Americans believe they’re safe from #wildfires in their cities. New research shows they’re not
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/us-wildfires-cities-dangers #science #FireEcology #ClimateCatastrophe #Environment
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Millions of Americans believe they’re safe from #wildfires in their cities. New research shows they’re not
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/us-wildfires-cities-dangers #science #FireEcology #ClimateCatastrophe #Environment
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"By criminalizing fire, Spanish authorities effectively criminalized forms of #IndigenousKnowledge—like the cultivation of certain plants and management of #ecosystems—that relied on #controlledBurning. This put #Indigenous people in an impossible situation. Those who persisted with burning risked arrest and forced labor."
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/02/15/smoke-heat-flame/
https://archive.ph/VQM8R
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"The mid-twentieth-century dream that #LosAngeles is America’s Eden, celebrated by Reyner Banham as he tooled around its freeways, has been superseded by the dark reality envisioned by Mike Davis, who foretold with uncanny accuracy what the other side of paradise would be like."
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/03/13/eden-on-fire-los-angeles-martin-filler/
https://archive.ph/PVJpm
#CaliforniaWildfires #LAwildfires #LAfires #CaliforniaFires #California #urbanism #UrbanTheory #FireEcology #ecocide #LA #cities -
Dear _ ,
🔥 In the present, I can contribute to the future, where the management of #forests in Western #Canada will be based on holistic #ecological knowledge, including #Indigenous traditional methods. 🌲✨ I can 🌿 promote & advocate for: Indigenous-led land management, 🔥 prescribed burning, & #reforestation with fire-resistant spp; 🌾 policies that restore grasslands & carbon sinks; 🐴 ethical, low-impact logging; 📚 & I can learn more about forest ecology. 🌎💚 #LandBack #FireEcology #ClimateAction
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Dear _ ,
🔥 In the present, I can contribute to the future, where the management of #forests in Western #Canada will be based on holistic #ecological knowledge, including #Indigenous traditional methods. 🌲✨ I can 🌿 promote & advocate for: Indigenous-led land management, 🔥 prescribed burning, & #reforestation with fire-resistant spp; 🌾 policies that restore grasslands & carbon sinks; 🐴 ethical, low-impact logging; 📚 & I can learn more about forest ecology. 🌎💚 #LandBack #FireEcology #ClimateAction
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MEP webinar with journalist/scholar Dennis Broe
#LosAngeles is Burning
"[I]n the spirit of Mike Davis, Broe will take us deep into #LA's geology, #ecology, neoliberal politics, and the sedimented #inequalities of class and race."
description: https://marxedproject.org/event/la-is-burning-with-dennis-broe/
replay: https://youtu.be/O4oHeJboBXw
#LAwildfires #CaliforniaWildfires #LAfires #CaliforniaFires #FireEcology #ecocide #urbanism #UrbanTheory #politicalTheory #socialEcology #inequality #cities -
Last chance to submit your abstract to come along to #EGU25 - if you have a burning interest in how fires and landscapes interact, consider our session - https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/51797
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Last chance to submit your abstract to come along to #EGU25 - if you have a burning interest in how fires and landscapes interact, consider our session - https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/51797
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Happy to see this great new study on future #boreal tree cover changes! 🌲
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2404391121
#Paleoecology offers a complementary perspective: We previously found that open woodlands in E-Siberia during the Early Holocene coincided with higher #wildfire activity, proposing a potential future "open woodland-fire feedback" 🔥
Reconstructing past wildfires and vegetation coverage furthermore led us to hypothesize that present-day, dense larch forests may still mediate the full extent of climate-driven fire regime intensification in this region. You can find our #paleofire study from #Siberia here:
https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.962906
@paleofire @wildfirescience @ecology #charcoal #pollen #FireEcology
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in view of the events in #LosAngeles , this paper should certainly be of interest to some of my followers, even if it was published in July 2024
"Climate and weather drivers in #southernCalifornia Santa Ana Wind and non-Santa Wind fires" #forestfire #wildlandfire #fireecology
@geography
@wildfirescience
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"The loss of more than 90 per cent of #SouthernCalifornia’s agricultural buffer zone is the principal if seldom mentioned reason #wildfires increasingly incinerate such spectacular swathes of luxury real estate. [...] what makes us most vulnerable is the abruptness of what is called the ‘wildland-urban interface’, where real estate collides with #FireEcology." - #MikeDavis
#California Burns (2007)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n22/mike-davis/california-burns
#CaliforniaFires #LAFires #ecocide #ecology #urbanism #UrbanTheory -
"From the mixed pine and oak forest in the Klamath Mountains to the Mojave Desert, Sierra Foothills, there is not an inch of California that is not now part of this conflagration and it's true throughout the American West of course"
2 great interviews from 2018 & 2021 on KPFK with the late Angeleno essayist #MikeDavis about #urbanism, "#FireEcology," colonial capitalism & #ecocide in #California
https://player.fm/series/kpfk-beneath-the-surface-2605305/beneath-the-surface-sunday-january-12-2025
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A non-flammable plant in a highly flammable environment (sensu http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12691).
Curatella americana, Dilleniaceae, Los Llanos, Colombia
#flammability #fireecology #botany #ecology @ecology @plants @botany @wildfirescience @plantscience @nature @biodiversity @conservation @evolution
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As #Wildfire Season Approaches, #Phytoplankton Take On Fires’ Trickiest Emissions https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29072024/phytoplankton-wildfire-black-carbon-emissions/
#FireEcology in marine systems https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/abstract/S0169-5347(23)00332-4
Microbial marine life can thrive off the black #carbon released from #wildfires and bolster the oceanic carbon sink. Scientists still emphasize their sequestration role has its limits.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Algae #Protists #Microbes #ExtremeWeather #Plankton
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Fire and can ‘wake up’ seeds from their domant state vai heat and/or smoke. This is an evolutionary trait in fire dominated systems that we do not see in systems that don’t have regular fire events (arid lands and rainforests for example). Humans seem to reduce fire frequency and this in turn reduces biodiversity. Pausas and Lamont 2022 https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12855 #FireEcology #SciLit
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Fire and can ‘wake up’ seeds from their domant state vai heat and/or smoke. This is an evolutionary trait in fire dominated systems that we do not see in systems that don’t have regular fire events (arid lands and rainforests for example). Humans seem to reduce fire frequency and this in turn reduces biodiversity. Pausas and Lamont 2022 https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12855 #FireEcology #SciLit
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Anyone interested in how fire seasonality affects germination in the Jarrah forest of SW WA might enjoy this from Casey Ryan - hot off the press and #OpenAccess https://academic.oup.com/conphys/article/11/1/coad093/7462346