I took this in Detroit, Oregon after the 2020 fires.
A washing machine melted into something unrecognizable. Soil sterilized.
This is the reality Patrick Moore waves away in Chapter 9 of his antiβclimate change book.
Read my full rebuttal:
https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/roam/patrick-moore-wildfires-climate-change.html
#Wildfires #ClimateChange #Oregon #FireEcology #ClimateCrisis #PacificNorthwest
Really enjoyed this study from Ruby Paroissien at UNSW and the Australian Plantbank, looking at seed dispersal in the wet sclerophyll forests of SE Aus following the 2019/20 disaster fire season.
They found that post-fire seed dispersal from rainforest species was almost entirely absent π hugely concerning when we have begun to see some of our oldest rainforests burn.
A highlight of the paper is Ruby's hand-drawn seed illustrations!
π The new issue of Annals of Botany is now online!
π± How leaf-dwelling fungi can reshape soil chemistry
π¬οΈ Why some wind-pollinated plants evolved grass-like traits
π₯ How plants recover after fire, drought, and salinity
and moreβ¦
New issueπ https://botany.fyi/bep8tb
#plantscience #botany #plantbiology #soilmicrobiome #plantfungi #pollinationbiology #windpollination
#plantecology #plantadaptation #stresstolerance #fireecology
π¨ Key takeaway: A single fire can limit reproduction and seed quality for years, highlighting the importance of longer fire-free intervals to allow canopy recovery and healthy seed production. (9/9)
π https://doi.org/qmgq
#PlantEcology #FireEcology #Cerrado #SeedBiology #SavannaEcosystems #PlantScience
π Great news! The paper βSingle fire events impose lasting reproductive costs in savanna treesβ in @AnnBot by Marcelle de Castro Cavalheiro and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks π§΅(1/9)
π https://doi.org/qmgq
#PlantEcology #FireEcology #SeedBiology #Cerrado #PlantScience #AoBpapers
For anyone interested in #ecology, specifically #FireEcology, here is a little #simulation I created several years ago...
https://richard.mdpaths.com/projects/fire_ecology/index.html
It is also a good example of using a #hexagonal grid on a #web page.
Northern #Minnesota #BWCA
17-Dec-2025
Nearly three-quarters of western US overdue for #wildfires
For a decade, nearly four million hectares per year would need to burn just to catch up
For over a century, the United States has poured billions of dollars into fire suppression tactics to keep people, homes and critical environments safe, but suppression can deprive landscapes of necessary burns and increase potential fuel for large fires in the future. New research to be presented at AGUβs 2025 Annual Meeting in New Orleans has found nearly 38 million hectares of land in the western United States is historically behind on its burning, leaving those lands in a βfire deficit.β
Rapid postfire color shift in a Mediterranean lizard
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzo.70083 | @jzoology.bsky.social
#Lizards inhabiting recently burned areas display lighter coloration, as a #thermoregulatory response
π§ͺππ₯π¦π #trait #fauna #zoology #JZoo #wildfire #fireecology #fire @ecology @wildfirescience
This suggests that in fire-prone ecosystems, plants may use multiple backup systems for recovery, even if these systems evolved independently. (7/7)
π https://doi.org/qbpr
#FireEcology #SeedDispersal #PlantRegeneration #ResproutingStrategies #FunctionalEcology #PlantScience
Erik Gauger
π§π Greg Cocks
Dr Micha Campbell
Annals of Botany
Richard Rathe
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