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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · 16d

We cover:
🔥 Key mechanisms that regulate how populations respond to fire regimes, shared across taxa.

🔥 Key fire-related functional traits.

🔥Trait expressions that make species populations more vulnerable, or resilient to fire regimes.

🔥Interactions between fire and other threatening processes.

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · 16d

🔥New Paper!🔥 from Julianna Santos,
@ltkelly.bsky.social @lluisbrotons.bsky.social @urbanfrogger.bsky.social @cristinaaponte.bsky.social , Lauren Ponisio, Stephen Mason, and David Keith!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Mechanisms Through Which Fire Drives Population Change in Terrestrial Biota

Understanding the mechanisms through which fire influences populations is necessary to protect species from fire regime change. We develop a cross-taxa framework that identifies mechanisms through wh...

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Sep 3

www.wilde-project.eu/news/restori...

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Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · Sep 2

AFE regularly updates our cultural fire resource page with resources regarding learning about cultural fire and how to develop respectful, equitable relationships with Indigenous fire practitioners, researchers, and tribal communities 🔥 Explore here: fireecology.org/cultural-fire

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Aug 12

Do you have some exciting research related to plant responses and resilience to shifting fire regimes?

Consider submitting to this exciting Special Collection in @ausjbotany.bsky.social ! 🔥🌱

Australian Journal of Botany @ausjbotany.bsky.social · Jul 8

🔥Are you investigating how plants respond to shifting fire regimes? Submit to our new Special Collection🌱
Title: "After the fires: Plant responses and resilience under shifting fire regimes"
📖 Submit by 30 Sept 2025.
🧪 Details 👉 www.publish.csiro.au/bt/content/C...
#Fire #Botany #Plantscience

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Aug 11

Incendios grandes están ardiendo en Francia y otras partes de Europa. Recuperar procesos naturales (como el papel de la fauna, los humanos, y ciertas perturbaciones) podría ayudarnos restorar patrones de fuegos beneficiosos @lluisbrotons.bsky.social @creaf.cat

theconversation.com/restaurar-el...

Restaurar el patrón natural de los fuegos ayudaría a conservar los ecosistemas y evitar incendios peligrosos

Una revisión científica propone recuperar los patrones de incendios a través del renaturalización o ‘rewilding’ con el fin de mejorar la salud de los ecosistemas aprovechando que el fuego puede genera...

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Luke Kelly @ltkelly.bsky.social · Jul 22

Can plants keep up with fire regime changes through evolution?

Our new paper is out in the July issue of @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

📖 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

with Hoffmann, Nitschke & @jgpausas.bsky.social
#fireecology #PlantBiology #ecoevo 🔥🌿🧬

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Jul 16

We cover:
🔥 Key fire metrics used in ecological research to inform fire regime attributes, that can be energetic, temporal, or spatial
🔥 Demonstrate existing ambiguity
🔥 Suggest working definitions, and provide example applications of fire metrics based on ecological processes of interest.

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Jul 16

We had noticed the murky ways that fire was being referenced and described, and the need for shared language for fire-related research in this time of global change.

We hope that this paper is useful to interpret, apply, and scale fire-related ecological knowledge across ecosystems and continents.

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Jul 16

🔥 Hot off the press ! 🔥
Originally “sparked” from a conversation between @sarahmccg.bsky.social , Luke Collins , @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social , Meg Krawchuk and I. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Jul 16

I'm so glad that you enjoyed it! 😊 I'm a great fan of your work !

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Jul 8

This is a very nice paper about restoring the ecological role of people that you might be interested in. It points to the role that people have within the trophic web and in the sustainment of ecological processes (rewilding). : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Jul 8

Great Q! Fire drives biodiversity in many parts of the world, including Europe. Lightning, people, and in some places even birds of prey, have lit fires and shaped resilient ecosystems for millennia. For example, this paper shows fire in the Irish Charcoal record in ~15,500BC tinyurl.com/thj5b9xt

Investigating patterns of wildfire in Ireland and their correlation with regional and global trends in fire history

In recent years a number of studies have suggested that trends in wildfire can be seen at a regional, national and global scale, and can be explained …

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thanks Dylan 😊

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Ecolandlab @ecolandlab.bsky.social · Jul 8

👉How to recover natural processes gradually lost or altered in our systems to our advantage… nature can help. ‘Restoring fire regimes through rewilding’ @CurrentBiology @CREAF_ecologia @ctforestal @wildE_Europe t.co/o28K2BaGSr

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00455-5

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Jul 8

From the re-introduction of herbivorous and hydrological engineers, to promoting mosaic burning, to relaxing fire suppression, strengthening important ecological processes is promising to restore fire regimes and enhance ecosystem function in many socio-ecological contexts worldwide.

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Jul 8

We cover:
1) How fire regimes have been altered by recent pressures
2) Interactions between fire, dispersal, and trophic complexity
3) Approaches to define “restored” fire regimes
4) A general pathway for restoring fire regimes through ecological processes
5) Key challenges and opportunities

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Jul 8

Fire patterns are altered in many places, threatening ecosystem function.

We need action to restore fire patterns, including trying new approaches.

We explore how recovering important ecological processes (known as rewilding in the Northern hemispheres), may be promising to restore fire patterns

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Jul 8

Is there a potential to strengthen ecological processes as a way to restore fire regimes?

🔥 🔥 New Paper Out! 🔥 🔥

@adrianregos.bsky.social @bakxbakx.bsky.social @fmoreira65.bsky.social @lluisbrotons.bsky.social and our other co-authors explore this

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Maria Blasi @mariablasi.bsky.social · Jun 10

Last week, @ecolandlab.bsky.social met at the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona! @icornitologia.bsky.social

A group of wonderful and dedicated people who work to make this world a better place 🦉🌳📈🐦

Group picture taken at the Barcelona Natural History Museum. The research group is standing at the stairs below a whale skeleton

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Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · Apr 29

NEW EPISODE of #FireEcology Chats! 🔥🎙️ Bob Keane joins Chika Tada, @ellapouton.bsky.social, and Alexander Filkov to discuss this unique experimental model that tests the fire component of plant species. #SNFECO
Listen here: fireecology.org/feco-podcast...

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Apr 28

Fabulous Chika Tada led research on fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival in Fire Ecology. Alex Filkov, Chika, and i spoke to @afe-fireecology.bsky.social
about it. If you have a spare 10 minutes, listen to hear more about Chika's thesis.

article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival - Fire Ecology

Background In fire-prone environments, some species store their seeds in canopy cones (serotiny), which provides seeds protection from the passage of fire before stimulating seed release. However, the...

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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · Feb 9

theconversation.com/grampians-na...

Grampians National Park is still burning – here’s what we can expect will survive and recover

Much of the Grampians National Park (Gariwerd) has already burned this summer – and the fire is not out yet. What does this mean for the animals that live there?

theconversation.com

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Feb 8

Had a fun chat with Amelia from @funecology.bsky.social about research from my PhD. Listen to it here! 😊

Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · Feb 6

🔊Podcast out now!

🔥Functional Ecology author @ellapouton.bsky.social chats to us about her research article, 'How do intervals between fires influence canopy seed production and viability?'

👂Listen here
👉https://buff.ly/4ggNtlW

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Ella Plumanns Pouton: How do intervals between fires influence canopy seed production and viability?

Functional Ecology author Ella Plumanns Pouton chats to Amelia Macho about her research article, 'How do intervals between fires influence canopy seed production and viability?' Ella's study sought t

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Ella Plumanns Pouton @ellapouton.bsky.social · Jan 14

Looking forward to contributing to the wildE Green Shoots webinars !

5 of us from @creaf.cat will be delivering a 2-part series on the role of disturbance in rewilding and the impact of rewilding on biodiversity.

Find out more and register for the webinars: bit.ly/3C169rR

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