Imma Oliveras Menor

a map of southern south America showing the location of burning fires with lots of red dots.

Patagonian wildfires show how denying climate change & pushing environmental destruction make the reality of climate change much worse. Threatening the destruction of trees that have been alive when the bronze age collapsed. @wwattribution.bsky.social www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Are you a community ecologist interested in fire ecology? Come join our group! Postdoc position for project FEVER, that aims to understand how fire affects biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and biogeochemical cycles in Mediterranean forests @umramap.bsky.social.

The global extent of the grassland biome and implications for the terrestrial carbon sink - Nature Ecology & Evolution By combining satellite observations with ground-based data and expert validation, this analysis demonstrates considerable misestimation of grassland extent and thereby carbon stock estimates in previo...

⚠️ New paper out in Nature Ecology & Evolution 🌱
#Grasslands #SoilCarbon @natecoevo.nature.com

William Bond, defender of grasslands In recent years, one of the loudest ideas in environmental policy has been that trees are the planet’s universal remedy. Plant enough of them, in enough places, and carbon will be soaked up, water wil...

"Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.

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COP30 TEXT ANALYSIS: One way to read dense COP text is to focus on the verbs. These are helpfully italicised – and for good reason.

MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
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The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity Our findings provide quantitative evidence that pine plantations can exacerbate fire severity under contemporary climate conditions, and that, once burned, these areas seldom recover. Effective spati...

The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity - Repeto‐Deudero @jgpausas.bsky.social

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What changing energy flows reveal about Africa’s ecosystems As the giants of the animal kingdom dwindle in numbers, a new way to assess ecosystem function sheds light on animals’ changing ecological contributions.

As the giants of the animal kingdom dwindle in numbers, a new way to assess ecosystem function sheds light on animals’ changing ecological contributions

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Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait-based approaches: An introduction

Here's the introduction to the Special Issue of the American Journal of Botany @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Thanks to all who contributed!

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Our new paper in Nature uses ecological energetics to track ten ecosystem functions of all birds and mammals in sub-Saharan Africa. It shows that the ecological power of African wildlife has declined by a third since pre-colonial times @natureportfolio.nature.com

With @ymalhi.bsky.social @lsantinieco.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social and other fantastic collaborators

Energy flows reveal declining ecosystem functions by animals across Africa - Nature An ecosystem energetics approach, quantifying trophic energy flows across species, offers a unified framework for linking animal biodiversity loss to changes in ecosystem function and Earth system pro...

New study from Ty Loft’s PhD thesis. We used an energetic approach to quantify, acr sub-Saharan Africa, how mammal- and bird-mediated ecosystem functions have changed. We found that overall trophic energy flows have decreased by more than one-third, but this change varies across biomes and land uses

Francisco Navarro-Rosales: Studying Plant Resilience in the Cerrado and Beyond Botany One interviews Francisco Navarro-Rosales, a PhD student fascinated by fire ecology in tropical ecosystems.

Interested in learning about research into Cerrado fire ecology? Curious to hear about my views and experiences in plant sciences? Check out this new interview @botany.one

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Gracias @caordonezparra.bsky.social for the opportunity 😊

The NEOFire team has now finished another experimental fire campaign at Serra das Araras! This is the 8th consecutive year we burn savanna plots to investigate the effects of altered fire regimes on the Cerrado
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ATBC Code of Conduct Click on the article title to read more.

The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation have published their Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics, setting a great example for other academic societies. 🌏🧪🌐
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Lightning Impacts on Global Forest and Carbon Dynamics: Current Understanding and Knowledge Gaps Lightning is a fundamental Earth system process that influences the world's major forest biomes and their carbon storage through two primary pathways. Lightning is the major cause of boreal forest fi....

⚡Striking impacts on forests!⚡
Our perspective on how lightning impacts forest dynamics, through igniting fires in boreal forests and being a major cause of tree mortality in tropical forests.🔥🌳⚡ Led by Sander Veraverbeke @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

In this blog @h-zhang.bsky.social discusses how #Eco-Evolutionary Optimality theory can help address knowledge gaps at a site in #Ghana

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NEW! Journal of #Pyrogeography has been launched! We cover landscape #fire interactions with #climate, #ecosystems, and #society and welcome studies from diverse research fields spanning the natural and social sciences.
Stay tuned to Upcoming Special Issues!

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Last publication of @h-zhang.bsky.social 's PhD thesis is finally out! This study tests optimality theory on the effect of vapour pressure deficit using tree trait data collected in West Africa

New study shows that transitional Amazon-Cerrado vegetation have different response strategies to fire based on their functional traits. These strategies influence post-fire survival and overall community structure and composition
#DiscoLab
@manumachadoeco.bsky.social @navarrosales.bsky.social

Our research group presented at a Symposium about Cerrado at ATBC2025 with fantastic speakers and presentations. Kuddos to @manumachadoeco.bsky.social and @navarrosales.bsky.social for their work organising the Symposium !

GOES- West 3.7 micron channel showing active forest fires - white and red areaa - look for the gold line

Map of Canada showing location and status of forest fires. https://ciffc.ca/

Active forest fires in BC, AB and ON today. GOES-West mid-ir showing active and extremely active fires (white and red respectively) in BC and AB. Another active day tomorrow for BC & AB and area burned in Canada will likely hit 3 million ha soon. Only 2023 had more area burned at this time of year.

Read a summary of science results in this post! Thank you @unemat @icmbio for the partnership

The effect of fire on the carbon fluxes and productivity of Brazilian woodland savannas The effects of altered fire regimes within open ecosystems are poorly understood and can have serious consequences on functioning and conservation acr…

After 8 years of continuous monitoring we have published the first results of our long term CerFogo experimental fire project as part of @navarrosales.bsky.social PhD thesis. Very happy to see this milestone accomplished!
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The effect of fire on the carbon fluxes and productivity of Brazilian woodland savannas The effects of altered fire regimes within open ecosystems are poorly understood and can have serious consequences on functioning and conservation acr…

My first PhD paper is now published in #STOTEN! We used a long-term fire experiment and ecosystem monitoring protocol to quantify the effect of burning on the productivity, respiration and ecosystem #carbon balance of Cerrado #savanna (1/6)

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Non-additive effects on plant mixtures flammability in a tropical mountain ecosystem Background Consumability, a component of flammability, describes how well plants burn and may be influenced by species traits and climate change. However, knowledge gaps remain regarding how species m...

New article from Imma Oliveras (@ioliverasmenor.bsky.social)
Roland H., Matos I. S., Rosado B. H. P., Oliveras Menor I. 2025. Non-additive effects on plant mixtures flammability in a tropical mountain ecosystem. International Journal of Wildland Fire
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📢 New article out!
#FIREADAPT Early Stage Researcher glspadoni.bsky.social is the corresponding author of "Devegetation is a widespread driver of fire in the Brazilian Cerrado" in the #JournalOfEnvironmentalManagement.
Congrats Gian Luca & co-authors! 👏
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Tree species hyperdominance and rarity in the South American Cerrado - Communications Biology The South American Cerrado has an estimated ~1605 tree species, yet > 2% make up half of all trees. Since 1995, the savanna lost 24 billion trees, threatening its biodiversity. Urgent conservation ...

Hyperdominance in the world's most diverse savanna. The Cerrado has more than 1,600 tree species, and yet just 30 make up half of all trees.

Congratulations to Facundo Alvarez and colleagues for this pan-Cerrado analysis using hundreds of plots.
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Oh I can’t help it, feels a bit sentimental. RIP Skype - so many procrastination afternoons on your chat. So many calls (family, friends, work). And that ringtone…

The NEOFIRE team led by @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social has just returned from a 6-week functional traits campaign at Serra das Araras, Brazil! There, I measured photosynthetic and leaf traits of 102 Cerrado trees under different fire regimes @umramap.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk