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CIDE-CSIC, ecology & evolution in fire-prone ecosystems🧪🌍🔥 Web: https://www.uv.es/jgpausas/index.htm Blog: http://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/
Plants understood what is going on before humans did.
04.10.2025 15:14 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1Global Sumud Flotilla illegally intercepted & boarded. All contact with the Flotilla is lost (globalsumudflotilla.org)
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Jane Goodall, renowned for her groundbreaking studies on chimpanzee behavior and her lifelong dedication to wildlife conservation, has died today at the age of 91. She was a model for many. RIP
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
The effect of fire on a resprouting plant at the sub-individual scale!
Final version now published in @journalofecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🌾 botany #ecoevo #plantbiology traits
@cideinvestiga.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es
45 ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla are approaching Gaza ... "We need your eyes & your pressure on international institutions to keep everyone safe and to help us achieve our goal of breaking the siege and opening a humanitarian corridor." globalsumudflotilla.org @freedomflotilla.bsky.social
30.09.2025 14:04 — 👍 26 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0Felicitats! 🥳
28.09.2025 09:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Solo la semana pasada atendimos más de 3.600 consultas y 1.655 casos de desnutrición en Ciudad de Gaza. Ahora nos vemos forzados a suspender nuestras actividades por seguridad. Pedimos el alto al fuego.
26.09.2025 18:08 — 👍 146 🔁 121 💬 2 📌 2🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Hemos suspendido nuestras actividades médicas en Ciudad de Gaza. Nuestros centros están rodeados por tanques y bajo ataques aéreos. Pedimos protección inmediata y cese de la violencia. #Gaza
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Although most trees in western USA conifer forests are killed by high intensity crown fires, most California coast redwoods survive by resprouting (photo by Jon Keeley, 2 years after the CZU Fire in Big Basin State Park).
🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥
#Sequoia and Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with markedly different adaptive responses to recent high-severity fires
By Jon Keeley & @jgpausas.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
Diferentes adaptaciones al fuego en las dos especies de secuoyas: una está adaptada al fuego de copas, con lo que tiene mucha capacidad de rebrote y la otra se adapta a los fuegos de suelo, con corteza gruesa y poniendo sus hojas a salvo en la altura!
25.09.2025 09:14 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Title of the paper: Sequoia and Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with markedly different adaptive responses to recent high-severity fires
Sequoia and Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with markedly different adaptive responses to recent high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Sequoia sempervirens (Coast redwood) resprouting epicormically after a high-intensity fire
Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia) with a fire scar in the base from a surface fire
Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only!
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social
View of the Paraná River from the Argentine side, looking toward Paraguay.
View of the Orinoco River from the Colombian side, looking toward Venezuela
After visiting the Paraná River and the Orinoco River, I'm back to the Turia River!
Photos: 4 countries in 2 pictures
Biennial Meeting of the Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology
21-23 January 2026, Valencia, @sesbe-org.bsky.social
sesbe2026.es
🧪 #ecoevo #evosky #evolbio
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UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
19.09.2025 21:47 — 👍 207 🔁 191 💬 3 📌 5Tenemos la posibilidad de relizar propuestas que contribuyan al Pacto de Estado frente a la Emergencia Climática, hasta el 8 de Oct:
· Personal científico: mpr.sede.gob.es/procedimient...
· Ciudadanía general: forma.administracionelectronica.gob.es/form/open/co...
@eco-aeet.bsky.social 🧪🌍🍁🌳💚🌿
Savanna with all the grasses dead, although we are not in the dry season. This savanna is close to the river and was flooded a few months ago
Those savannas next to the river that experienced flooding a few months ago are now ready to burn (flood-sensitive grasses); savannas further from the river are green (non-flammable).
Flooding enhances fire, i.e., water and fire are complementary forces in Los Llanos del Orinoco, Colombia.
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Este libro me abrió los ojos en su día. Para mi es imprescindible si se quiere entender el rol que juega el fuego en los espacios naturales.
La mayor parte de la población tiene ideas preconcebidas sobre esto completamente erróneas, lo que lleva a que a veces se propongan cosas sin sentido.
'Incendios forestales. Una introducción a la ecología del fuego', de Juli G. Pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social. Colección #QuéSabemosDe coeditada con @CSIC.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social buff.ly/QTYhkzx
16.09.2025 18:00 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1No, as far as I know! Nobody has recorded that action.
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No flammable plants living in a flammable fuel bed:
Even young Chaparros (Curatella americana) & Alcornocos (Bowdichia virgilioides) survive postfire thanks to their low-flammability strategy (sensus dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365...), Llanos del Orinoco.
🧪🌍🔥🌿🌱🌾🔥🌳 #plantscience #WTREX #prescribed #fire
crested caracara (Caracara plancus) in a recent burn area
Crested caracara (Caracara plancus) in a recent burn area
The crested caracara (Caracara plancus, Falconidae) is among the first avian species to benefit from prescribed burns here in Los Llanos del Orinoco. Up to 26 individuals were observed today while we were still burning
🧪🌍🔥 #wtrex #xtrex #birds #prescribed #fire
Great to see WTREX in action!
Empowering South American women in the use of fire, Llanos del Orinoco
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Alcornoco (Bowdichia virgilioides); hojas. Alcornoco leaves.
Sabana de Alcornoco (Bowdichia virgilioides); "alcornocal" Alcornoco savanna
Alcornoco (Bowdichia virgilioides, Fabaceae) en los Llanos del Orinoco. Taxonómicamente no tiene nada que ver con el alcornoque (Quercus suber, Fagaceae), pero las dos viven en sitios con fuego y rebrotan epicórmicamente
🧪🌍🔥🌿🌾🌳🔥🌳 #PlantBiology #ecoevo
Alcornoco y alcornocal llanero
Interesting paper! Fire-induced resprouting increases within-individual phenotypic and epigenetic variability, with fitness implications
12.09.2025 07:59 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
It is still the wet season in Los Llanos del Orinoco
10.09.2025 02:54 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Logo and lema of the WTREX, Colombia 2025: "Fuego con propósito, mujeres que ecienden el cambio"
Nice to be visiting the first WTREX performed in South America!
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"the odds of high severity fire occurrence were 1.45 times higher on private industrial land than in publicly owned forests, an effect equivalent to a three standard deviation decrease in fuel moisture." @jacoblevine.bsky.social, California, USA
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A qué vuelva a España ...
07.09.2025 17:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0qué ganas de darme un paseo por allí!!
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