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Inna Osmolovsky @innaosmol.bsky.social · 27d

It was such an honour to present my research at UTS! Thank you to @zoexiro.bsky.social and @ecologybrad.bsky.social for the invitation and to everyone who came to listen to my talk 🌿

Yvonne Davila @ydavila.bsky.social · 28d

🐝🌸 With climate change, many organisms are shifting their ranges, but some are shifting in the opposite direction to what we expect.
Insightful and entertaining seminar by Inna Osmolovsky @innaosmol.bsky.social on "Climate Change and Shifting Interactions: Where Do Species Go from Here?"

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Yvonne Davila @ydavila.bsky.social · 28d

🐝🌸 With climate change, many organisms are shifting their ranges, but some are shifting in the opposite direction to what we expect.
Insightful and entertaining seminar by Inna Osmolovsky @innaosmol.bsky.social on "Climate Change and Shifting Interactions: Where Do Species Go from Here?"

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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 28d

Haha!

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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 28d

Bearded dragon spotted during field teaching. Wonderful camo!

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Zoe Xirocostas @zoexiro.bsky.social · Aug 19

Spent the past month in Greece 🇬🇷 on holiday and visiting family. But surprised to see so many reminders of Aus (Eucalypts) planted on so many islands! (could they be contributing to the wildfires Greece is being ravaged by? So many questions!)

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Yvonne Davila @ydavila.bsky.social · Aug 17

I'm still buzzing after an amazing day at the Sydney Science Trail, Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan! #NationalScienceWeek

I had a great time talking to the community about how pollination ecologists study and conserve plants and their pollinators
🌸🐝🌼🪰🪻🦋

#STEMEducation
#Pollination

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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · Jul 30

Backyard biodiversity, a stunning crimson rosella having a munch

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Jul 21

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

Fight fire with food #forests: Assessing flammability of tropical crop plant species to design fire-smart #agroforestry systems

By Ashley Pacheco, Hannah Goodman et al.
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

Study co-authors Hannah Goodman, Lexi Hankenson, and Dr. Deborah Apgaua (left to right) demonstrate the plant flammability testing apparatus, showing how samples are burnt.

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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · Jul 14

Great fun working with Lyndle Hardstaff, Megan Murray, and @zoexiro.bsky.social on our latest flammability project

Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live-leaf flammability in plant species of fire-prone forests

@botsocamerica.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live-leaf flammability in plant species of fire-prone #forests

By @ecologybrad.bsky.social, @zoexiro.bsky.social, et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

A fire in dry sclerophyll forest in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney (New South Wales, Australia).

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Frédérik Saltré @fredsaltre.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚀 We’re live!
The Biogeography, Ecology & Modelling Lab @UTS finally has a website! 🎉

🌐 Check it out: www.biogeographyuts.org

#Ecology #Biogeography #ClimateChange #Conservation #ScienceWithImpact #Science @ecologybrad.bsky.social @ciehf.bsky.social

Home | BEAM

www.biogeographyuts.org

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Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · Jun 19

NEW EPISODE of #FireEcology Chats! 🔥🎙️ Bob Keane joins Sky Biblin to discuss this rare opportunity to compare early post-wildfire data between areas with and without previous application of prescribed burning #SNFECO ⚡
Listen here: fireecology.org/feco-podcast...

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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · Jun 5

Geochemical proof that Aboriginal Australians have been changing landscape-scale fire regimes (cooler, less-intense fires) for at least 11,000 years, and probably much longer

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Late Pleistocene emergence of an anthropogenic fire regime in Australia’s tropical savannahs - Nature Geoscience

A shift towards more-frequent, less-intense fires in Australia began about 11,000 years ago due to management by Indigenous societies, according to charcoal and stable polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ...

doi.org

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Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org · May 27

Fuel moisture matters more for some species than for others. Cool stuff by Azaj Mahmud.

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · May 27

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

Moisture loss rate drives the species-specific sensitivity of shoot flammability to water status
By @azajmahmud.bsky.social , Nursema Aktepe, @schwilk.org ilk.org‬doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...52

Relationship between water status and shoot flammability. (A) The relationship between water potential and ignition delay time (s) across species (F1, 159 = 79.35, P < 0.001). (B) Relationship between LFMC and ignition delay time (s) across species (F1, 159 = 21.03, P < 0.001). (C) Relationship between water potential and heat release (kJ) across species (F1, 159 = 54.94, P < 0.001). (D) Relationship between LFMC and heat release (kJ) across species (F1, 159 = 105.1, P < 0.001). The lines indicate the trend of the response of ignition delay time (s) and heat release (kJ) to changing water status across species from the ANCOVA models.

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Yvonne Davila @ydavila.bsky.social · May 20

Happy World Bee Day! 🐝

This year's theme, "Bee inspired by nature to nourish us all", highlights the critical roles bees and other pollinators play in agrifood systems and ecosystem health.

Here's a Lipotriches bee buzz-pollinating a Dianella flower (Wangal land).

#worldbeeday #ozpollinators

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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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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · May 19

Fantastic talk by Dr Juergen Knauer @juergenknauer.bsky.social, UTS Chancellor’s Research Fellow, on the global drivers of C3-C4 vegetation distribution

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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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Yvonne Davila @ydavila.bsky.social · May 16

Congratulations to all the UTS Environmental Sciences students who graduated today! Wishing you all the best for your next exciting chapter! 🌱🌳🌸🐝

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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · Apr 26

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

Green firebreaks ready for wildfire at Christchurch’s Mt Vernon Park

Green fire breaks will “not always stop a wildfire, but they can slow or decrease the intensity of a fire”, an expert says.

www.thepress.co.nz

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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · Mar 24

Fascinating article in The Conversation by UTS marine ecologists Shauna Murray and Greta Gaiani:
Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches
theconversation.com/mystery-solv...

Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches

A harmful algal bloom of Karenia mikimotoi made dozens of surfers sick and killed seadragons, fish and octopuses on two South Australian beaches.

theconversation.com

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Zoe Xirocostas @zoexiro.bsky.social · Feb 12

Excited to be attending Science Meets Parliament 2025 in Canberra. Kicked off this morning with insights from Bill Shorten around R&D investment and amplifying science within government policy #SMP2025

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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · Feb 2

At the National Maritime Museum.

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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · Dec 19

Wow, those images are fantastic.

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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · Dec 18

Such inspiring ecological research on plant flammability now being used to help reduce wildfire impacts. Great work Tim!

Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · Dec 18

I'm really proud of this project, the culmination of 12 yrs of research on our plant BBQ.

Our plant flammability data are being used in this new Fire and Emergency NZ website to guide decisions about which species to plant around your property.

www.checkitsalright.nz/reduce-your-...

Fire prevention and fire safety | Fire and Emergency New Zealand

Stay safe and reduce the risk of fire over summer. Find out what you need to do before you light a fire outdoors and whether you need a fire permit.

www.checkitsalright.nz

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