🔥Low- and high-severity fires ➡️ Soil microbial diversity & co-occurrence networks

Results:
1️⃣ Fire severity had no impact on microbial α-diversity, but altered β-diversity.
2️⃣ Low-severity fire restructured bacterial associations, whereas high-severity fire disrupted it.

#FireSeverity | #Post_fire | #SoilMicroorganism | #CommunityDiversity | #MicrobialNetworkComplexity

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf126

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Direct Effects of #FireSeverity on Soil Microbial Diversity and Network Assembly in a Transitional Climate Forest

#Post_fire | #SoilMicroorganism | #CommunityDiversity | #MicrobialNetworkComplexity

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf126

In summer 2021 we looked at impacts of heat from fire on Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca saplings. At moderate to high fire intensity doses (84% fire-induced mortality) we saw living xylem and damaged phloem after 6 weeks.

Image was produced by Prof M. Knoblauch using the CFDA approach.

#FireEcology #FireSeverity #pyroecophysiology #PlantScience

Some of our recent published research in ponderosa pine saplings showed that its more likely that cambium and phloem damage that impacts NSC transport, rather than xylem hydraulic failure, is responsible for fire-induced tree mortality.
#FireEcology #PlantScience #FireSeverity #pyroecophysiology

Article
https://t.co/I2xcam455a

Image is from Dr. Partelli-Feltrin (twitter: @RaquelFeltrin)