Ella Plumanns Pouton
banner
ellapouton.bsky.social
Ella Plumanns Pouton
@ellapouton.bsky.social

Postdoc at CREAF, interested in plants, fire, and finding good ways to look after the earth and its creatures.

Environmental science 67%
Geography 17%

We cover:
🔥 Key mechanisms that regulate how populations respond to fire regimes, shared across taxa.

🔥 Key fire-related functional traits.

🔥Trait expressions that make species populations more vulnerable, or resilient to fire regimes.

🔥Interactions between fire and other threatening processes.

Reposted by Tom Le Breton

AFE regularly updates our cultural fire resource page with resources regarding learning about cultural fire and how to develop respectful, equitable relationships with Indigenous fire practitioners, researchers, and tribal communities 🔥 Explore here: fireecology.org/cultural-fire

Reposted by Rachael H. Nolan

Do you have some exciting research related to plant responses and resilience to shifting fire regimes?

Consider submitting to this exciting Special Collection in @ausjbotany.bsky.social ! 🔥🌱
🔥Are you investigating how plants respond to shifting fire regimes? Submit to our new Special Collection🌱
Title: "After the fires: Plant responses and resilience under shifting fire regimes"
📖 Submit by 30 Sept 2025.
🧪 Details 👉 www.publish.csiro.au/bt/content/C...
#Fire #Botany #Plantscience
Can plants keep up with fire regime changes through evolution?

Our new paper is out in the July issue of @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

📖 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

with Hoffmann, Nitschke & @jgpausas.bsky.social
#fireecology #PlantBiology #ecoevo 🔥🌿🧬

We cover:
🔥 Key fire metrics used in ecological research to inform fire regime attributes, that can be energetic, temporal, or spatial
🔥 Demonstrate existing ambiguity
🔥 Suggest working definitions, and provide example applications of fire metrics based on ecological processes of interest.

We had noticed the murky ways that fire was being referenced and described, and the need for shared language for fire-related research in this time of global change.

We hope that this paper is useful to interpret, apply, and scale fire-related ecological knowledge across ecosystems and continents.
🔥 Hot off the press ! 🔥
Originally “sparked” from a conversation between @sarahmccg.bsky.social , Luke Collins , @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social , Meg Krawchuk and I. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm so glad that you enjoyed it! 😊 I'm a great fan of your work !

This is a very nice paper about restoring the ecological role of people that you might be interested in. It points to the role that people have within the trophic web and in the sustainment of ecological processes (rewilding). : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great Q! Fire drives biodiversity in many parts of the world, including Europe. Lightning, people, and in some places even birds of prey, have lit fires and shaped resilient ecosystems for millennia. For example, this paper shows fire in the Irish Charcoal record in ~15,500BC tinyurl.com/thj5b9xt
Investigating patterns of wildfire in Ireland and their correlation with regional and global trends in fire history
In recent years a number of studies have suggested that trends in wildfire can be seen at a regional, national and global scale, and can be explained …
tinyurl.com

Thanks Dylan 😊

From the re-introduction of herbivorous and hydrological engineers, to promoting mosaic burning, to relaxing fire suppression, strengthening important ecological processes is promising to restore fire regimes and enhance ecosystem function in many socio-ecological contexts worldwide.

We cover:
1) How fire regimes have been altered by recent pressures
2) Interactions between fire, dispersal, and trophic complexity
3) Approaches to define “restored” fire regimes
4) A general pathway for restoring fire regimes through ecological processes
5) Key challenges and opportunities

Fire patterns are altered in many places, threatening ecosystem function.

We need action to restore fire patterns, including trying new approaches.

We explore how recovering important ecological processes (known as rewilding in the Northern hemispheres), may be promising to restore fire patterns

Reposted by Adrián Regos

Is there a potential to strengthen ecological processes as a way to restore fire regimes?

🔥 🔥 New Paper Out! 🔥 🔥

@adrianregos.bsky.social @bakxbakx.bsky.social @fmoreira65.bsky.social @lluisbrotons.bsky.social and our other co-authors explore this

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
👉How to recover natural processes gradually lost or altered in our systems to our advantage… nature can help. ‘Restoring fire regimes through rewilding’ @CurrentBiology @CREAF_ecologia @ctforestal @wildE_Europe t.co/o28K2BaGSr
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00455-5
t.co
🔥Are you investigating how plants respond to shifting fire regimes? Submit to our new Special Collection🌱
Title: "After the fires: Plant responses and resilience under shifting fire regimes"
📖 Submit by 30 Sept 2025.
🧪 Details 👉 www.publish.csiro.au/bt/content/C...
#Fire #Botany #Plantscience
Last week, @ecolandlab.bsky.social met at the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona! @icornitologia.bsky.social

A group of wonderful and dedicated people who work to make this world a better place 🦉🌳📈🐦
NEW EPISODE of #FireEcology Chats! 🔥🎙️ Bob Keane joins Chika Tada, @ellapouton.bsky.social, and Alexander Filkov to discuss this unique experimental model that tests the fire component of plant species. #SNFECO
Listen here: fireecology.org/feco-podcast...

Fabulous Chika Tada led research on fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival in Fire Ecology. Alex Filkov, Chika, and i spoke to @afe-fireecology.bsky.social
about it. If you have a spare 10 minutes, listen to hear more about Chika's thesis.

article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Fire intensity effects on serotinous seed survival - Fire Ecology
Background In fire-prone environments, some species store their seeds in canopy cones (serotiny), which provides seeds protection from the passage of fire before stimulating seed release. However, the...
link.springer.com

Had a fun chat with Amelia from @funecology.bsky.social about research from my PhD. Listen to it here! 😊
🔊Podcast out now!

🔥Functional Ecology author @ellapouton.bsky.social chats to us about her research article, 'How do intervals between fires influence canopy seed production and viability?'

👂Listen here
👉https://buff.ly/4ggNtlW

🧪🌍
Ella Plumanns Pouton: How do intervals between fires influence canopy seed production and viability?
Functional Ecology author Ella Plumanns Pouton chats to Amelia Macho about her research article, 'How do intervals between fires influence canopy seed production and viability?' Ella's study sought t
buff.ly

Looking forward to contributing to the wildE Green Shoots webinars !

5 of us from @creaf.cat will be delivering a 2-part series on the role of disturbance in rewilding and the impact of rewilding on biodiversity.

Find out more and register for the webinars: bit.ly/3C169rR

A fab way to end the year and bring in the new 🌱 !
Have you ever followed the lifespans of a perennial plant? @cmhmaliani.bsky.social followed 128 plants over 38 yrs & showed that certain lifetime trajectories had fitness advantages!
Published in a "low-impact" journal @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social
www.revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...
🧪🌍🌿🌾🌱

Cool to see the City of Melbourne Birrarung floating wetlands project as part of @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESA2024 . These islands were recently installed to support urban biodiversity...Spot the black Swan!

Excited to be heading back to Wurundjeri Country for #ESAus2024
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social
in jus a blink of an eye. Looking forward to learning and catching up with folks! I'll be presenting Thursday arvo in the Wildfire Futures symposium: Interdisciplinary challenges and Opportunities.