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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 5d

Terrific opportunity for someone!

Science Director

The Science Director is a new position at Odonata, created to lead the organisation’s conservation science, research, and evidence-based species recovery strategies across all programs and landscapes.

www.odonata.org.au/vacancies

Jobs — Odonata Foundation | We Save Species

www.odonata.org.au

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Gabriela Dezotti @gabrieladezotti.bsky.social · 14d

Exciting week seeing some beautiful Cerrado seeds germinate and learning a lot from the best, @heloizazirondi.bsky.social @leveg.bsky.social 🌱

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Heloiza L. Zirondi @heloizazirondi.bsky.social · 15d

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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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Letícia Giacom @leticiagiacom.bsky.social · 22d

attending to #GoBelowground this week! meeting so many nice people and already learned so much within these two days. excited for the rest of the week 🤩

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Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · Sep 8

We're recruiting!! Myself along with Nathan Gill, Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org, and Katharine Suding are recruiting people for Master's, PhD, and postdoc positions in GrassFire, an NSF funded project examining fuels and fire risk in grassland ecosystems across the Southern Great Plains! 🔥🌿🐮

A grassland on a sunny day near Boulder, CO

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Heloiza L. Zirondi @heloizazirondi.bsky.social · Aug 22

Check this out 🔥🔥🔥
www.instagram.com/p/DNq1bhUv3-...

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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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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Jul 3

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

Deciphering fire tolerance of #trees at the Amazonia–Cerrado transition by trait-based approach: Implications from species to communities
Wesley Jonatar Cruz, et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

How do trees survive fire at the Amazon-Cerrado transition? This graphical abstract reveals how different strategies, like thicker bark, bud protection, and water use efficiency help species survive (or not) in fire-affected areas. The study findings show that fire not only selects the most resilient trees but also reshapes the entire community structure over time.

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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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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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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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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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Heloiza L. Zirondi @heloizazirondi.bsky.social · Apr 18

Friday, seed day 🌱🤣

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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · Apr 9

so proud to be part of this study @agenciafapesp.bsky.social

Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · Apr 2

🌿 The first article of our DarkDivNet consortium, led by Meelis Pärtel, has been published in Nature. Our dataset from 5500 sites in 119 world regions, collected specially for this purpose, shows that plant diversity is negatively affected not only by direct human impact such as local disturbance.

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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

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Agência FAPESP @agenciafapesp.bsky.social · Apr 2

Levantamento feito em 119 regiões do mundo investigou a “diversidade faltante”, isto é, espécies nativas que poderiam estar presentes na localidade, mas estavam ausentes. Resultados acabam de ser publicados em @nature.com. agencia.fapesp.br/54378

@alefidelis.bsky.social @macroecologyut.bsky.social

Estudo global revela impacto oculto das atividades humanas na natureza

Levantamento conduzido em 119 regiões do mundo investigou a “diversidade faltante”, isto é, espécies nativas que poderiam estar presentes na localidade, mas estavam ausentes. Resultados foram publicad...

agencia.fapesp.br

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Heloiza L. Zirondi @heloizazirondi.bsky.social · Mar 19

Thank you!

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Alessandra Fidelis @alefidelis.bsky.social · Mar 17

@heloizazirondi.bsky.social is a Dr now! Congrats Helô! Dr Heloiza L Zirondi - the master of the seeds!

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International Society for Seed Science @intlsocseedsci.bsky.social · Feb 13

The ISSS has curated a starter pack with seed scientists working on a wide variety of #SeedScience topics, from molecular biology to ecological restoration.

If you want to be part of the starter pack or know another fellow seed scientist, please leave us a comment bellow! go.bsky.app/H38GoMy

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Agência FAPESP @agenciafapesp.bsky.social · Jan 17

Estudo de revisão conduzido por colaboração internacional de cientistas aponta que plantas herbáceas não graminoides são fundamentais para a biodiversidade, o armazenamento de carbono, a regeneração pós-distúrbios e a provisão de serviços ecossistêmicos pelo #Cerrado. agencia.fapesp.br/53710/

Plantas herbáceas não graminoides são fundamentais para a preservação do Cerrado

Menos estudadas do que as gramíneas e as árvores, essas espécies vegetais possuem enorme importância para a biodiversidade, o armazenamento de carbono, a regeneração pós-distúrbios e a provisão de ser...

agencia.fapesp.br

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Nov 10

Here is a starter pack for scientists and others interested in trait-based ecology and evolution. Still trying to find everyone here. Please let me know if you would like to be added to the list! go.bsky.app/PThMXeX 🧪🌎🌾

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Nov 24

Fire ecology and biodiversity conservation are complex.

Some places might need fewer fires, fires at a different scale and/or fires at a different time of year (intensity/severity).

Some places we might need more fire, etc...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Spiky blue devils and chocolate lilies: Victorian grassland bursts with wildflowers after ecological ‘reset’

Careful management including weed control and a burn laid the groundwork for floral abundance in Boorhaman reserve

www.theguardian.com

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

Here is the current Fire BlueSky landscape

Fire starter packs:
Fire ecology: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Wildfire experts: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Feeds:
Disasters: Fire bsky.app/profile/did:...
Wildfires (fire science): bsky.app/profile/davi...

🧪🌍🌳🔥🌿

bsky.app

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · Nov 19

Finished teaching for the semester! Today I finished teaching "quick data vis" (introduction to data visualization in R) to 1st year grad students - for the 3rd time. You can access course contents at my GitHub at well.

github.com/cxli233/Quic...

Graphical abstract of "quick data vis", featuring basic R coding, tabular data operations, intro to data vis, mean separation, proportional data, heatmaps, and relationship data.

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