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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Jun 11

Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years!

The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es

Phenology changes for the Japanese cherry tree (Prunus jamasakura) in Kyoto. Left: Day of the year of the flowering peak for the period between 812 and 2024. Right: Relation between March mean air temperature (°C) in Kyoto and the day of the year of the Japanese cherry tree peak flowering for the period between 1890 and 2024.
https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/06/11/134-years-of-climate-warming-effects/

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 1d

Declaración del @csic.es ante el genocidio en Gaza.
Y sugerencia de donaciones CSIC-UNICEF: colabora.unicef.es/csic
@unicefespana.bsky.social

“Ante la situación de vulneración de los derechos humanos de los ciudadanos palestinos en los territorios de Gaza y Cisjordania, el Consejo Rector del CSIC manifiesta su más firme compromiso con la paz, la convivencia, la justicia y la defensa del Derecho internacional humanitario y acuerda paralizar la promoción de la colaboración científica con instituciones israelíes a partir de esta fecha.” CSIC

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Ignacio Villaverde @wildlandfirefig.bsky.social · 1d

Este magnífico libro de @jgpausas.bsky.social 😊
Te aseguro que cuando acabes de leerlo verás los incendios forestales de una forma muy distinta!!!
www.casadellibro.com/libro-incend...

INCENDIOS FORESTALES. UNA INTRODUCCIÓN A LA ECOLOGÍA DEL FUEGO | Juli G. Pausas | Casa del Libro

El libro INCENDIOS FORESTALES. UNA INTRODUCCIÓN A LA ECOLOGÍA DEL FUEGO de Juli G. Pausas en Casa del Libro: ¡descubre las mejores ofertas y envíos gratis!

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 1d

Thousand Madleens Flotilla illegally intercepted & boarded in international waters during their humanitarian mission to Gaza

thousandmadleens.fr/tracker/
@1kmadleenfr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
@[email protected]

Flotilla Tracker – Thousand Madleens & Freedom Flotilla Coalition – Thousand Madleens France

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Global Wildfire Collective @wildfirecollective.bsky.social · 2d

From publications to news features, explore all the highlights in the News & Publications section on our website.
globalwildfirecollective.org/news-and-pub...

#GlobalWildfireCollective #GWC #GWCCharterMember #ConsBio #Wildfire #WildfireResearch #WildfireRecovery #GlobalChange #FireManagement

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 2d

A second flotilla, this time with 9 vessels, will try to break the siege and open a humanitarian corridor to Gaza
thousandmadleens.fr/tracker/
globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/
More flotillas are being prepared; donations: chuffed.org/project/1389...

juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 8d

Global Sumud Flotilla illegally intercepted & boarded. All contact with the Flotilla is lost (globalsumudflotilla.org)

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 8d

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...

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 8d

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

juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fire alters the phenotype of individual plants, potentially through epigenetic mechanisms
Saiz-Blanco, @cmhmaliani.bsky.social et al @journalofecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🌾 botany #ecoevo #plantbiology traits @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es

Phenotypic rebuilding after fire: Understanding within‐individual variability in a Mediterranean shrub

This paper shows that burned resprouting individuals of Anthyllis cytisoides differed significantly in phenotype, global cytosine methylation and the relationship between floral phenotype and fitness...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 9d

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

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 11d

Felicitats! 🥳

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Médicos Sin Fronteras España @msfespana.bsky.social · 13d

Solo 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.

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Médicos Sin Fronteras España @msfespana.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 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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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 14d

🔥🌱 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...

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).

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 15d

Sequoia and Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with markedly different adaptive responses to recent high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@botsocamerica.bsky.social

Title of the paper: Sequoia and Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with markedly different adaptive responses to recent high-severity fires

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 15d

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

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

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 18d

After visiting the Paraná River and the Orinoco River, I'm back to the Turia River!

Photos: 4 countries in 2 pictures

View of the Paraná River from the Argentine side, looking toward Paraguay.

View of the Orinoco River from the Colombian side, looking toward Venezuela

juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 19d

Biennial Meeting of the Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology
21-23 January 2026, Valencia, @sesbe-org.bsky.social
sesbe2026.es

🧪 #ecoevo #evosky #evolbio
@uv.es @ucciuv.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @ibmcp.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es @sibecol.bsky.social @raciencias.bsky.social

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Reposted by Monica G. Turner, Juli G. Pausas, Ben Bond‐Lamberty , and 2 more Monica G. Turner, Juli G. Pausas, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Márk E. Hauber, John R. Hutchinson

Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 20d

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...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

docs.google.com

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 22d

Tenemos 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 🧪🌍🍁🌳💚🌿

Formulario PdE Emergencia Climática - Ministerio de la Presidencia

Ministerio de la Presidencia

mpr.sede.gob.es

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 22d

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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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

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Los Libros de la Catarata @cataratalibros.bsky.social · 23d

'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

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 24d

No, as far as I know! Nobody has recorded that action.

juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 24d

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

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 25d

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

crested caracara (Caracara plancus) in a recent burn area

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 25d

Great to see WTREX in action!
Empowering South American women in the use of fire, Llanos del Orinoco

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 26d

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

Alcornoco (Bowdichia virgilioides); hojas.
Alcornoco leaves.

Sabana de Alcornoco (Bowdichia virgilioides); "alcornocal"
Alcornoco savanna

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Sep 10

It is still the wet season in Los Llanos del Orinoco

juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Sep 9

Nice to be visiting the first WTREX performed in South America!
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Sep 8

"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....

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Sep 7

A qué vuelva a España ...