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juli g pausas
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CIDE-CSIC, ecology & evolution in fire-prone ecosystems🧪🌍🔥
Web: https://www.uv.es/jgpausas/index.htm
Blog: http://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/

Environmental science 57%
Geography 15%
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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

Celebro ver cada vez más libros de ecología en la colección ¿Qué sabemos de? @cataratalibros.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social @csic.es
¡Regala ecología!

🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁🪰🕷🌼💙📚 @annatraveset.bsky.social @ibartomeus.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
"Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.
William Bond, defender of grasslands
In recent years, one of the loudest ideas in environmental policy has been that trees are the planet’s universal remedy. Plant enough of them, in enough places, and carbon will be soaked up, water wil...
www.butlernature.com

Reposted by Fernando Pulido

My blog is back after a few months of technical issues. It now updates correctly, so you can see my recent posts on: the 2025 Spain & Portugal fires, Hutto's book on severe fires, the passing of W. Bond, afforestation & fire severity, sequoia(dendron), and more jgpausas.blogs.uv.es

🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁 wildfire
j.g. pausas' blog
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es

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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

And here are a few more pics of William; these are much more recent. I met him much later than you. Note that in the first, you are also in the pic, @schwilk.org, taken by Jon Keeley, together with other fire ecologists. 🌎🔥

jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/12/10/h...
j.g. pausas' blog » Homage to William Bond
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es

"Algunos textos medievales dicen que se sabía cuáles eran las carrascas de mejor bellota fijándose en las ramas rotas, pues significaba que los osos se habían alimentado de ellas"
José Fajardo (2023)

🍜 🍽️ #traditional #food #acorns #oaks #bellotas #lentejas

Reposted by Víctor M. Santana

Regalos justos y necesarios.
Regala a personas refugiadas por culpa de guerras inhumanas y genocidios absurdos. Hay de todos los precios, no hay excusa para no contribuir ...
elregalojusto.com
elregalojusto.com/tienda/
@unrwaes.bsky.social
Home - El Regalo Justo
ESTAS NAVIDADES, MANDA UN REGALO REALMENTE NECESARIO VER TODOS LOS REGALOS El regalo justo es el regalo que más lejos llega. Surge de la necesidad límite de ayudar a la población refugiada de Palestin...
elregalojusto.com
Technological progress comes with social costs. A new paper by Stefan Thurner et al. shows that "polarization started to increase exactly with the advent of smartphones and social media."

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Why more social interactions lead to more polarization in societies | PNAS
Over the past two decades, the number of close social connections increased substantially, at least by a factor of two. At the same time, societal ...
www.pnas.org

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I don’t see the papers but occasionally see articles on this, e.g. this from Forbes
www.forbes.com/sites/chrisw...

And this one which has a list of references
www.ie.edu/center-for-h...

I’m sure it wouldn’t take much for tutors/supervisors to come up with a credible list of papers to share.

It would be helpful to have a list of key papers dealing with the cognitive effects of AI to distribute among students.
I’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me

This website may be of interest to you; it includes books and papers (free download) on #fireecology 🧪🌎🔥🌳🍁🌿

www.uv.es/jgpausas/fir...

¡Porque lo importante y placentero es el acto de tomar la fotografía!

“Some places are in and of themselves too special to be altered by logging operations, an old-growth forest is one and a severely burned forest is another.” R. Hutto
doi.org/10.1093/bios...

www.uv.es/jgpausas/pap...

Reposted by Monica G. Turner

*In Defense of Severe Fires*
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
My review of Hutto's book, BioScience @aibsbiology.bsky.social

Severely burned forests are “magical places that seem to harbor plant & animal species & visual experiences found under no other forest conditions"

PDF: DM

🧪🌎🔥🌳🍁🌱 wildfire

Reposted by Juli G. Pausas

It’s really demoralizing how many colleagues are using AI.

Your job is literally to use your brain- your extremely unique, highly trained brain 😭
Record-Breaking 2025 European Wildfires Concentrated in Northwest Iberia
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

~541000ha burnt under extreme monthly FWI
Shrublands were +vely selected by fire & to a lesser extent pines. Oaks & crops were -vely selected
@globalchangebio.bsky.social

🧪🌍🔥🌳 wildfire
*The role of fire on Earth*

The final version of this paper is now available #OA in BioScience 75 (12) @aibsbiology.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🌐 wildfire #ecoevo @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social
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

Ostras, me los he perdido! Volveré por allí.
Vi lo que parecían pisadas de un vertebrado grande, pero no tomé foto, grgr ...

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#EspaiCiència @octubreccc.bsky.social @iec.cat @acpv.cat @ucciuv.bsky.social s'ajorna el Bar de Ciències del dimecres 10 de desembre sobre incendis forestals amb Juli Pausas i @socreisjuan.bsky.social @revistametode.bsky.social @dicv.csic.es Disculpeu les molèsties.

When you go for a walk with a geologist, you see some things you wouldn't otherwise see ... Here is a fossil coastal dune with lots of holes from ancient roots!!

Moraira/Teulada, Alacant, Spain
🧪 🌿🌱🌾🪴🦖 Geology geoscience #fossil

He died on December 4th (the funeral will be on the 12th)

Evidence of climate change cycles (Milankovitch cycles) preserved in the rock record!
Hard limestones: warmer periods
Soft marls: colder periods

Moraira/Teulada, Alacant, Spain
🧪 Geology geoscience
To remember William Bond, you could listen to his powerful talk on behalf of grasses! It is a seminal lesson in savanna ecology. Personally, I also find it nice to hear his voice.

jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2021/02/21/a...

🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience #savanna
I'm very sad to say William Bond, of the University of Cape Town & Fellow of the Royal Society (@royalsociety.org ), has passed away. It is a great loss. He was an enthusiastic ecologist and a critical thinker. I learned a lot, and I still had a lot to learn from him. RIP. 😢

🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience
I'm very sad to say William Bond, of the University of Cape Town & Fellow of the Royal Society (@royalsociety.org ), has passed away. It is a great loss. He was an enthusiastic ecologist and a critical thinker. I learned a lot, and I still had a lot to learn from him. RIP. 😢

🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience

"La Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ha convocado una Playa de Ayudante Doctor para el área de incendios forestales y aprovechamientos. Plaza Nº 0039 del ANEXO I" www.upm.es/Personal/PDI...
🌳🔥🍁🔥

ok, I'm calling here @carbonbrief.org in case they want to correct their mistake

I guess they mean 800 million hectares, which is probably a bit closer to the size of Australia ...

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Hoy ve la luz esta nueva plataforma de datos: Flora Uruguaya Online 🌼🇺🇾. Gran trabajo liderado por Mauricio Bonifacino, Ary Mailhos, y colegas florauruguaya.org. La publicación que acompaña el lanzamiento está disponible acá doi.org/10.1002/tax.... 🧪🌎
Flora Uruguaya Online – Catálogo de la flora vascular del Uruguay
Catálogo taxonómico y base de datos científica dedicada a la flora vascular del Uruguay. Presenta información actualizada sobre nomenclatura, orígenes, hábitos, ambientes, distribución, imágenes y col...
florauruguaya.org