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Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (LEVeg) 🌾 @leveg.bsky.social · 15d

Smoke experiments going on in our lab! #SeedEcology #FireEcology #Seeds

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Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (LEVeg) 🌾 @leveg.bsky.social · 7d

🔥New review in WIREs Climate Change

Proud to highlight the participation of Dr. Davi Rossatto, PI of the Biota-Cerrado on Fire Project (FAPESP 2023/16620-0).

👉 doi.org/10.1002/wcc....

#Cerrado #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Savanna

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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · 3d

The Cerrado is really amazing! Post-fire flowering is one of the most interesting and beautiful fire response! It is not a response of a specific species or family! Bulbostylis paradoxa never fails and can be seen flowering already 18 hs after fire! @leveg.bsky.social @programabiota.bsky.social

Bulbostylis paradoxa flowering 24 hs afrer fire

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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · 3d

We just did the 153th burn since 2013 in our plots! In each burn we measured different fire parameters like fire intensity, fuel load, fire temperature, etc. Thanks to all students, local people and the fire brigade who helped in all experimental fires! @leveg.bsky.social @programabiota.bsky.social

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Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (LEVeg) 🌾 @leveg.bsky.social · Jun 23

Check out the new paper by our PhD student @marcochiminazzo.bsky.social

(EN) Important implications for ecosystem functioning in fire-prone and disturbance-driven systems🔥
(PT) Novo artigo do aluno de doutorado do LEVeg: ecossistemas expostos ao fogo e a distúrbios🔥

👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.pp...

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Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (LEVeg) 🌾 @leveg.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our master's student presented his poster at Pheno 2025 last week. Congrats, @fealvarez.bsky.social — we're proud of you!

Felipe Alvarez @fealvarez.bsky.social · Aug 1

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."

Me and my scientific poster at Pheno2025.

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Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (LEVeg) 🌾 @leveg.bsky.social · Aug 22

🔥 Mujeres del Fuego Sudamérica | Mulheres do Fogo da América do Sul 🔥

Una red de mujeres unidas por la ecología del fuego y su valor cultural.

Uma rede de mulheres unidas pela ecologia do fogo e seu valor cultural.

💫 Únete/Participe: shre.ink/t8I0

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Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (LEVeg) 🌾 @leveg.bsky.social · Aug 5

What a week! In the last feel days LEVeg attend the 67th IAVS Symposium in Greeley, Colorado. Amazing experience — hope to see you all next year in Gijón!
@iavs5.bsky.social
@alefidelis.bsky.social
@marcochiminazzo.bsky.social
@gabrieladezotti.bsky.social

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Francisco Navarro-Rosales @navarrosales.bsky.social · Jul 7

Last week, the @oxfordecosystems.bsky.social team and I participated in the ATBC2025 meeting in Oaxaca, México. It was great to see so many cool research presentations! During the event, @manumachadoeco.bsky.social and I organised a symposium about Cerrado fire ecology and conservation (see thread):

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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · Jul 3

📢📢🔥🔥🔥 I am so excited to announce our book about Fire in the South American Ecosystems! It has 14 Chapters led mostly by south american authors. Thanks to all authors for their valuable contribution! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Korina Ocampo-Zuleta @korinaocampo.bsky.social · Jul 2

📢🔥 Excited to share this new chapter! Led by @sgomezgon.bsky.social we explore the fire ecology in the Chilean Mediterranean 🌿🇨🇱 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
@iebchile.bsky.social @cr2uchile.bsky.social
Thanks to @alefidelis.bsky.social & @springernature.com

Fire in Mediterranean Ecosystems of South America

The South American Mediterranean region is located in central Chile (23–39°S) and has a climate with hot dry summers and mild rainy winters. There, a typical sclerophyllous vegetation devel...

link.springer.com

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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · Jul 2

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!

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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · Jul 1

I’ll be there!!!!!

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Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (LEVeg) 🌾 @leveg.bsky.social · May 21

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: [email protected]
🔗 CV (Lattes): lnkd.in/d8xuQbQb

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Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (LEVeg) 🌾 @leveg.bsky.social · May 19

(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!

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · May 19

🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #ﬁre regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

From plant traits to fire behavior: Scaling issues in flammability studies

By Dylan Schwilk, Md. Azharul Alam, Nathan Gill et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience

Illustration of methods used to assessed fuel characteristics (moisture, architecture, chemistry and mass) across a range of scales from individual plant organs or excised parts to communities and landscapes. Remote sensing, field measurements, and laboratory work are each suited to assessment of fuel characteristics at different but overlapping portions of this range, thereby creating opportunities to synthesize the “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches to understanding flammability. Art drawn by by Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte.

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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · May 16

Very excited to see this paper out!

Led by @schwilk.org, with @azhar06.bsky.social @ecologybrad.bsky.social @rachaelnolan.bsky.social @alefidelis.bsky.social @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social @dendromecon27.bsky.social @profalistairsmith.bsky.social

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

From plant traits to fire behavior: Scaling issues in flammability studies

Despite fire being one of the oldest and most important ecological disturbance processes on Earth, many aspects of fire–vegetation feedbacks are poorly understood, limiting their accurate representat...

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · May 15

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!

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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · May 14

II Seminário Regional do Manejo Integrado do Fogo: local event, organized by the volunteer fire brigade of Cavalcante, where everyone can talk about their favorite topic: working with fire. Scientist, society, government, traditional peoples and volunteers.

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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · May 11

isn’t that amazing?

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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · May 10

This sedge never stops amazing me: first picture was taken 18 hours after fire; second picture - 36 hours post-fire. Detail: this was an early-dry season fire! Bulbostylis paradoxa fire-super star
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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · May 10

@programabiota.bsky.social @agenciafapesp.bsky.social

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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · May 10

Burning for the 7th time our early-dry season fire plots. We have established the fire experiment in 2013 with 5 treatments related to fire frequency and season. At each fire, we sample fire parameters. Twice a year, we sample vegetation and biomass.

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Heloiza L. Zirondi @heloizazirondi.bsky.social · Apr 9

Check this out 🔥🌱 youtu.be/kYDsCYNi_Po?... Congrats @alefidelis.bsky.social @leveg.bsky.social

Pesquisadora da Unesp investiga grupo de plantas do Cerrado que contribui com preservação do bioma

YouTube video by TV Unesp

youtu.be

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