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juli g pausas
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CIDE-CSIC, ecology & evolution in fire-prone ecosystems🧪🌍🔥
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Jun 11
Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years!

The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es
Phenology changes for the Japanese cherry tree (Prunus jamasakura) in Kyoto. Left: Day of the year of the flowering peak for the period between 812 and 2024. Right: Relation between March mean air temperature (°C) in Kyoto and the day of the year of the Japanese cherry tree peak flowering for the period between 1890 and 2024. https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/06/11/134-years-of-climate-warming-effects/
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eco-aeet.bsky.social
Nuestra revista científica @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social busca nuevos editores asociados.

Toda la info aquí 👇👇
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Homo sapiens and the environmental mismatch hypothesis

"It is possible that the rapid industrialisation of our habitat is outpacing our adaptive capacity & is imposing selective pressures that threaten our evolutionary fitness." Longman & Shaw
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪🏺 #ecoevo
Visual representation of the Environmental Mismatch Hypothesis
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Global inequality in environmental conditions underpinning human rights
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Local environmental justice is not enough; it requires an international environmental justice.

Global environmental burden transfers: Find the responsible countries for environ. degradation
Global environmental burden transfers: Biodiversity loss. Horizontal bars show quantified burden transfers between sending to receiving countries (or regions). Local environmental degradation is frequently driven by the actions of external actors in other countries. Global environmental burden transfers: air quality. Horizontal bars show quantified burden transfers between sending to receiving countries (or regions). Local environmental degradation is frequently driven by the actions of external actors in other countries.
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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cmhmaliani.bsky.social
Cuánto trabajo cuesta crear algo valioso, cuánto esfuerzo y sacrificio (me consta) de tanta gente para que ahora venga esta pandilla ignorante, rancia y ratera a destruirlo en un momento. Desesperante.
eco-aeet.bsky.social Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre - AEET @eco-aeet.bsky.social · 8d
Carta de apoyo de AEET al Observatorio del Cambio Global de Sierra Nevada, solicitando a la Junta de Andalucía que garantice la continuidad del Obsevatorio, restaurando un marco de colaboración y asegurando recursos para mantener sus programas de seguimiento, análisis y transferencia de conocimiento
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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pnas.org
Opinion piece: Removing #DeadTrees will not save us from fast-moving #wildfires. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/qvta50XuOrz

#logging #ClimateChange #ForestFire
Pictured is post-disturbance logging that entailed removal of biological legacies and increased fine fuels on the Stanislaus National Forest in California, two years after the 2013 Rim fire, one of the state’s largest fires at the time. Image credit: Doug Bevington (photographer).
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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cideinvestiga.bsky.social
Si te perdiste esta publicación del grupo de Ecología del Fuego y Evolución del #CidEinvestiga, aquí te la dejamos de nuevo.
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jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Oct 1
The effect of fire on a resprouting plant at the sub-individual scale!
Final version now published in @journalofecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🌾 botany #ecoevo #plantbiology traits
@cideinvestiga.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es
jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Aug 8
Fire alters the phenotype of individual plants, potentially through epigenetic mechanisms
Saiz-Blanco, @cmhmaliani.bsky.social et al @journalofecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🌾 botany #ecoevo #plantbiology traits @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es
November 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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melucasborja.bsky.social
Just out in the Journal of Environmental Management:

"Salvage logging increases erosion and reduces plant diversity and soil organic carbon four years after a severe wildfire in semi-arid pine forests"

Check it here if interested:

authors.elsevier.com/c/1m7cr14Z6t...
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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infopointa.bsky.social
The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming
Pausas 2025
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#COP30
November 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Climate visuals: Here are all the figures you need for showing the changes in climate in your presentations! by @edhawkins.org
ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
An additional one here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌍🌐 #ClimateChange
edhawkins.org Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 8d
Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are.

Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Three curves (carbon dioxide, temperature and sea level) showing historical climate changes covering the last 2000 years.
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🔥 RESEARCH 🔥

Shrub resprouting depends on pre-disturbance condition, with aridity, soil fertility & fire history as secondary drivers. Repeated disturbance reduces resprouting, & adult plants are more resilient under low water conditions - Zomer et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 1.Location of the study area (boxed region in inset map) in the Iberian Peninsula, showing the gradient of historical aridity (lower aridity index values are indicative of less aridity); location of field populations (left map) of Anthyllis cytisoides (n=6, brown circles) and Globularia alypum (n=10, teal triangles); and location of common garden seed provenances (right map) of A. cytisoides (n=4) in Low aridity (blue circles) and High aridity (red circles) areas. Borders in the inset map are countries, and in main maps are provinces.
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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wildfirecollective.bsky.social
This #GivingTuesday, help us reach $10K to keep our open Spatial Data Gateway free and continue to expand on-the-ground impact - workshops, local stakeholders, and solutions for resilient communities worldwide. 🌍🔥

DONATE TODAY
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November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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pablo-ecology.bsky.social
Rewilding in Europe: A Systematic Characterization and Classification of 89 Rewilding Projects 🌎🌐🧪 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Rewilding in Europe: A Systematic Characterization and Classification of 89 Rewilding Projects
Rewilding is increasingly adopted as a novel, process-oriented restoration approach worldwide, yet little knowledge exists on commonalities and differences in rewilding practice. This study systemati...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Reformation of Science Publishing: The Stockholm Declaration
Full declaration: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Sign it: sciii-it.org/stockholm-de...

🧪 #AcademicsSky #SciencePublishing #ScienceIntegrity @royalsociety.org @royalsocietypublishing.org @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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jgpausas.bsky.social
Resprouting is more complex than you think 🙃

"Pre-disturbance plant condition drives intraspecific resprouting variability in Mediterranean shrubs" by @mayazomer.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
@jxbotany.bsky.social

🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🌾 Anthyllis cytisoides & Globularia alypum #PlantBiology #SEM #botany
Structural equation modeling (SEM) of resprouting success and vigour along an aridity gradient
June 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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jxbotany.bsky.social
🌿🔥 INSIGHT 🔥🌿

✍️ "Legacies of stress and altered disturbance regimes threaten shrubland resilience" - Jacobsen & Pratt comment on recent research by Zomer et al.

Insight 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Research 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 1.Resprouting plants differ in their success in resprouting post-fire as well as in the vigour of resprouting shoots. Some plants may (A) not survive the fire and will not resprout (plant 1), or will successfully resprout and subsequently die (plant 2), while yet others will resprout but with differing degrees of vigour, as evidenced by different crown heights and volumes (B–D). The images are the California Mediterranean-type climate region shrub, Adenostoma fasciculatum Hook. & Arn. (Rosaceae), during the first winter post-fire. (Photo credit: A.L. Jacobsen.)
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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'Incendios forestales. Una introducción a la ecología del fuego', de Juli G. Pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social. Colección #QuéSabemosDe coeditada con @CSIC.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social buff.ly/QTYhkzx
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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“As dozens of frog species have declined, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in the region have climbed, resulting in a fivefold increase in cases.”

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First, the frogs died. Then people got sick.
An emerging area of research is uncovering hidden links between nature and human health.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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pepecarrion.bsky.social
Very happy. A paper just out of the oven. It is a piece of work made possible only after many years of thinking about, and looking at, an old problem from multiple perspectives. And with the magical brushstrokes of our artists, Gabriela and Ariadna.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
"las plantaciones de pino ardieron con mayor severidad que robledales, bosques mixtos o matorrales ... la intensidad del fuego en la vegetación colindante fue mayor cuanto más cerca estuvieran de dichas plantaciones." @irene-repeto.bsky.social
🧪🌍🔥🍁🌿🌳🔥 #wildfire
theconversation.com/para-compren...
Para comprender y gestionar mejor los incendios forestales debemos observar el paisaje
En el contexto actual de cambio climático, las plantaciones de pino, muy abundantes en España, pueden ser puntos críticos para los grandes incendios.
theconversation.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
CIDE busca persona interesada en solicitar beca predoc de la Generalitat Valenciana (tinyurl.com/34jbccyr) para trabajar en Fauna y Fuego (CIDE CSIC Valencia)
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@ccbiologiquesuv.bsky.social @uv.es @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @ucciuv.bsky.social @crueuniversidades.bsky.social @eco-aeet.bsky.social
El CIDE (CSIC, Valencia) está buscando una persona candidata para solicitar una beca Predoctoral de la Generalitat Valenciana, con la idea de trabajar en fauna y fuego en nuestro grupo de investigación (EvoFire, CIDE). Interesados contactar con Roger Colominas colominasciuro _at_ csic.es
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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philstevenson.bsky.social
Non-native tree devastates Ethiopia’s ecosystems and threatens livelihoods
Prosopis, introduced to Ethiopia in the 1970s, now depletes water, harms livestock and disrupts ecosystems across Afar.

www.aljazeera.com/amp/gallery/...
Non-native tree devastates Ethiopia’s ecosystems and threatens livelihoods
Prosopis, introduced to Ethiopia in the 1970s, now depletes water, harms livestock and disrupts ecosystems across Afar.
www.aljazeera.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social
My Letter in @science.org on the need to align wildfire prevention with conservation.
The wildfires occurred in Spain in 2025 have fueled policies prioritizing shrub removal as a strategy, which would undermine the EU's long-term biodiversity conservation goals.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Align wildfire prevention with conservation
www.science.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Rapid postfire color shift in a Mediterranean lizard
@jzoology.bsky.social

#Lizards inhabiting recently burned areas display lighter coloration, as a #thermoregulatory response
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪🌍🔥🦎📏 #trait #fauna #zoology #wildfire #fireecology #fire
Infographics: Mediterranean lizards in recently burned areas rapidly develop lighter coloration, as a thermoregulatory response Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination of adult lizards in ~1-year postfire showing dissimilarities between burned and unburned in terms of coloration.
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
In our Mediterranean ecosystems, two species flower almost exclusively now, i.e. in autumn-winter: Erica multiflora & Arbutus unedo; both Ericaceae. A. unedo flowers and fruits simultaneously. Valencia, Spain
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Erica multiflora in flower Arbutus unedo with flowers and fruits
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM