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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 3d

Watch to the end.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Calum Cunningham @calxcunningham.bsky.social · 6d

Out today in @science.org, we show wildfire disasters have surged in the last decade, as climate change intensifies fire weather and exacerbates other vulnerabilities.

📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

With @pyrogeog.bsky.social @climate-guy.bsky.social

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

www.science.org

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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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Chris Jolly @ecolojolly.bsky.social · 21d

New paper out today with @biodiversityguy.bsky.social and @lizardlab.bsky.social

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

From anecdote to evidence: experimental validation of fire-cue recognition in Australian sleepy lizards | Biology Letters

Fire has shaped the evolution of both plants and animals. Animals exposed to fire throughout their evolutionary history are predicted to exhibit behavioural adaptations that enhance survival during fire. Here, we investigated whether Australian sleepy ...

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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 22d

Hot off the press! Check out our new paper on sleepy lizard aka shingleback skink fire cue discrimination led by @ecolojolly.bsky.social DM if you want a PDF.

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Sep 5

We have a new paper developing methods for looking at bird-fire macroecology. What’s most fascinating to me is that the magnitude *and* direction of fire effects can vary enormously across a species range. Stationarity is dead!! Long live non-stationarity!!

doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Evaluating macroecological fire impacts on bird populations

Fire regimes are context-dependent, as are the ways that animals respond. However, most information on animal responses to fire comes from short-term local field studies, which are hard to extrapolat....

doi.org

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · Aug 21

our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!!

w/ @brentpease.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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

New paper: The role of fire on Earth
doi.org/10.1093/bios... BioScience @aibsbiology.bsky.social
Fire affects all major components of the Earth system: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, anthroposphere, & biosphere. Fire is an intrinsic factor on our planet.

🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🌐 wildfire

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers.

👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ
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Kwasi Wrensford @kwasiscientific.bsky.social · Jul 17

The first paper from my postdoc is finally out! In collaboration with @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and Amy Angert, we outline how behavioral plasticity influences animal species’ distributions and can improve our understanding of range shifts under climate change! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Linking individual animal behavior to species range shifts under climate change

Climate change has led animal species to shift their ranges to greater elevations, latitudes, and depths, tracking their preferred abiotic niche. Howe…

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Aug 6

Wildfire activity worldwide was higher in 2023 and 2024 than in any year since monitoring began in 2001. Tropical forests are seeing particularly high rates of forest loss. Some forest systems may be approaching tipping points of ecosystem change. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Tunnel 5 Fire in the Columbia River Gorge, Washington, July 2023.

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Luke Kelly @ltkelly.bsky.social · Jul 25

What are the evolutionary implications of changes in fire regimes for animals?

We explore this in our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social

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

with @mwtingley.bsky.social‬ @jgpausas.bsky.social & team

#Biodiversity #FireEcology #EcoEvo 🔥🦎🧬

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Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social · Jul 24

Experts fear the leafy seadragon may be disappearing from areas hit by SA’s toxic algal bloom. With a limited range, losing local populations could mean losing the species entirely. Urgent action is needed to prevent permanent biodiversity loss.

au.news.yahoo.com/50...

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Luke Kelly @ltkelly.bsky.social · Jul 22

And we develop the concept of 'trait–fire mismatch':

A type of phenotype-environment mismatch that brings together ecological and evolutionary fire science and supports forecasts of fire-driven environmental change.

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Jul 23

Can plants keep up with fire regime changes through evolution?
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... | @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

What about animals?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... | @globalchangebio.bsky.social

Trait–fire mismatching
Food for thought by @ltkelly.bsky.social et al

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Trait–fire mismatching. Illustrative examples of mismatch are shown where anthropogenic shifts in fire patterns have plausibly reduced plant fitness.

Trait–fire mismatching in animals. A conceptual overview of how trait–fire mismatches are defined and measured, and a few examples.

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Cassie Speakman @cassiespeakman.bsky.social · Jul 16

4 year fixed term postdoc position in Tasmania, Australia. Drones, camera traps, population monitoring.

careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/50114...

Current Vacancies

careers.utas.edu.au

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Grant Linley @glinley.bsky.social · Jul 17

The last of my PhD papers. This was a fun project uncovering species diel changes in response to wildfire.

Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · Jul 17

🔥🌿The impact of gigafire on vegetation structure, terrestrial vertebrate abundance and diel activity

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#BlackSummer #EcologicalResilience #FireSeverity #SpeciesActivity #TemporalActivity #VegetationRecovery #Wildfire

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Matthew Holden 🏳️‍🌈 @matthholden.bsky.social · Jul 16

Job alert: 2.75 -3 yr postdoc in Mathematical ecology/epidemiology or Decision Sci at the University of Queensland on the value of information for decisions with @hugepossum.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social Katriona Shea & myself #MathSky 🌍 uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo... please share

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Mathematical Ecology and Environmental Decision Science

School of Mathematics and Physics Full-time, fixed-term position for up to 2 years and 9 months with the possibility up to 3 years, depending on funding availability. Base salary will be in the range ...

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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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Marco Turco @marco-turco.bsky.social · Jul 11

Happy to share our new paper: we show that human-caused climate change is raising the odds of extreme climate-driven fire years across forested regions of the globe
@climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social
rdcu.be/evJkX
#ClimateChange #Wildfires

Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally

Nature Communications - The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings...

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Ned Dochtermann @neddochtermann.bsky.social · Jul 10

Concerned about the potential impacts of how taxonomic biases in our research affect the broader generalizations we draw? If not, maybe we should be.

If you saw @sekharma.bsky.social 's poster at ABS, you can find the pre-print here: doi.org/10.32942/X2X...

w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social

#ABS2025

Ungeneralizable generalizations? A meta-meta-analysis of the influence of taxonomic bias on the study of behavior.

doi.org

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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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Matthew Holden 🏳️‍🌈 @matthholden.bsky.social · Jul 4

Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

The value of information for ecological management

study.uq.edu.au

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Associate Professor John White @johnwhitewildlife.bsky.social · Jul 5

My personal native plant nursery. Australian native daisies, emu bush, banksia and grevillea from cuttings. Masses of grass trees grown from seed over many year. I give most of these away to people in my street willing to plant them on their nature strips. 1 plant at a time will make a difference

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Grant Linley @glinley.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thanks to: @biodiversityguy.bsky.social
@ecolojolly.bsky.social
@predator-smarts.bsky.social
Calum Cunningham
Emma Spencer
@dylanwestaway.bsky.social

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