Alessandra Fidelis
@alefidelis.bsky.social
I am a plant-community-fire-grassland-savanna ecologist with more questions than answers 🔥🌾🌱🌺
Associate Professor at Universidade Estadual Paulista
tropical open ecosystems | seed ecology | fire ecology | belowground organs | biological invasion
Associate Professor at Universidade Estadual Paulista
tropical open ecosystems | seed ecology | fire ecology | belowground organs | biological invasion
This experience was amazing! I was a panelist at the Green Zone at the COP30, talking about fire and resilient landscapes and communities, together with people representing the government, female fire brigade and indigenous people! #cop30
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This experience was amazing! I was a panelist at the Green Zone at the COP30, talking about fire and resilient landscapes and communities, together with people representing the government, female fire brigade and indigenous people! #cop30
The Cerrado is really amazing! Post-fire flowering is one of the most interesting and beautiful fire response! It is not a response of a specific species or family! Bulbostylis paradoxa never fails and can be seen flowering already 18 hs after fire! @leveg.bsky.social @programabiota.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The Cerrado is really amazing! Post-fire flowering is one of the most interesting and beautiful fire response! It is not a response of a specific species or family! Bulbostylis paradoxa never fails and can be seen flowering already 18 hs after fire! @leveg.bsky.social @programabiota.bsky.social
We just did the 153th burn since 2013 in our plots! In each burn we measured different fire parameters like fire intensity, fuel load, fire temperature, etc. Thanks to all students, local people and the fire brigade who helped in all experimental fires! @leveg.bsky.social @programabiota.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
We just did the 153th burn since 2013 in our plots! In each burn we measured different fire parameters like fire intensity, fuel load, fire temperature, etc. Thanks to all students, local people and the fire brigade who helped in all experimental fires! @leveg.bsky.social @programabiota.bsky.social
📢📢🔥🔥🔥 I am so excited to announce our book about Fire in the South American Ecosystems! It has 14 Chapters led mostly by south american authors. Thanks to all authors for their valuable contribution! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
July 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
📢📢🔥🔥🔥 I am so excited to announce our book about Fire in the South American Ecosystems! It has 14 Chapters led mostly by south american authors. Thanks to all authors for their valuable contribution! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
And we talked a lot about seeds at the #ATBC2025! Thanks @caordonezparra.bsky.social for organizing this amazing symposium and delivering this great talk! @heloizazirondi.bsky.social summed up 10 years of our research about fire and seed ecology in the Cerrado! You guys rock!
July 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
And we talked a lot about seeds at the #ATBC2025! Thanks @caordonezparra.bsky.social for organizing this amazing symposium and delivering this great talk! @heloizazirondi.bsky.social summed up 10 years of our research about fire and seed ecology in the Cerrado! You guys rock!
Yesterday the BRIVAC, a volunteer fire brigade, did a prescribed fire during the II Seminário Regional do Manejo Integrado do Fogo. In Brazil, local volunteers are essential for the success of fire management, including during wildfires. Bravo BRIVAC!
May 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Yesterday the BRIVAC, a volunteer fire brigade, did a prescribed fire during the II Seminário Regional do Manejo Integrado do Fogo. In Brazil, local volunteers are essential for the success of fire management, including during wildfires. Bravo BRIVAC!
II Seminário Regional do Manejo Integrado do Fogo: local event, organized by the volunteer fire brigade of Cavalcante, where everyone can talk about their favorite topic: working with fire. Scientist, society, government, traditional peoples and volunteers.
May 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
II Seminário Regional do Manejo Integrado do Fogo: local event, organized by the volunteer fire brigade of Cavalcante, where everyone can talk about their favorite topic: working with fire. Scientist, society, government, traditional peoples and volunteers.
This sedge never stops amazing me: first picture was taken 18 hours after fire; second picture - 36 hours post-fire. Detail: this was an early-dry season fire! Bulbostylis paradoxa fire-super star
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May 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This sedge never stops amazing me: first picture was taken 18 hours after fire; second picture - 36 hours post-fire. Detail: this was an early-dry season fire! Bulbostylis paradoxa fire-super star
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Burning for the 7th time our early-dry season fire plots. We have established the fire experiment in 2013 with 5 treatments related to fire frequency and season. At each fire, we sample fire parameters. Twice a year, we sample vegetation and biomass.
May 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Burning for the 7th time our early-dry season fire plots. We have established the fire experiment in 2013 with 5 treatments related to fire frequency and season. At each fire, we sample fire parameters. Twice a year, we sample vegetation and biomass.
super excited to begin this new project (Biota-MIF), establishing plots using GGG protocols and analyzing the effects of fire management on vegetation and ecosystem services! More data of grassy ecosystems to come!
March 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
super excited to begin this new project (Biota-MIF), establishing plots using GGG protocols and analyzing the effects of fire management on vegetation and ecosystem services! More data of grassy ecosystems to come!
@heloizazirondi.bsky.social is a Dr now! Congrats Helô! Dr Heloiza L Zirondi - the master of the seeds!
March 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
@heloizazirondi.bsky.social is a Dr now! Congrats Helô! Dr Heloiza L Zirondi - the master of the seeds!
The #SSNM is one of my favorite meetings! Today I presented a talk about how fire exclusion is negatively impacting forbs in the Cerrado! @agenciafapesp.bsky.social @programabiota.bsky.social #Cerrado #forbs #fire #womeninstem #CerradoOnFire #Biota-MIF
March 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The #SSNM is one of my favorite meetings! Today I presented a talk about how fire exclusion is negatively impacting forbs in the Cerrado! @agenciafapesp.bsky.social @programabiota.bsky.social #Cerrado #forbs #fire #womeninstem #CerradoOnFire #Biota-MIF
This week we had the first meeting of our Biota-Cerrado on Fire project! We are a multidisciplinary group of researchers from different parts of the world and Brazil, composed of 70% of female researchers! I am so happy to have put this amazing team together! #CerradoOnFire #Cerrado #FireEcology
February 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This week we had the first meeting of our Biota-Cerrado on Fire project! We are a multidisciplinary group of researchers from different parts of the world and Brazil, composed of 70% of female researchers! I am so happy to have put this amazing team together! #CerradoOnFire #Cerrado #FireEcology
Logo logo começaremos a trazer novidades sobre nosso projeto de co-produção Biota-MIF, que avalia o Manejo Integrado do Fogo. Fique de olho!
Very soon we will bring news about our co-production project Biota-MIF, which evaluates the Integrated Fire Management! Stay tuned!
@programabiota.bsky.social
Very soon we will bring news about our co-production project Biota-MIF, which evaluates the Integrated Fire Management! Stay tuned!
@programabiota.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Logo logo começaremos a trazer novidades sobre nosso projeto de co-produção Biota-MIF, que avalia o Manejo Integrado do Fogo. Fique de olho!
Very soon we will bring news about our co-production project Biota-MIF, which evaluates the Integrated Fire Management! Stay tuned!
@programabiota.bsky.social
Very soon we will bring news about our co-production project Biota-MIF, which evaluates the Integrated Fire Management! Stay tuned!
@programabiota.bsky.social
In the last days I visited the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, University of Copenhagen and Karlstad Universitet. I had the pleasure to meet nice colleagues, strengthen collaboration and talk about what I like the most: savannas, fire, and our FAPESP projects @programabiota.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
In the last days I visited the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, University of Copenhagen and Karlstad Universitet. I had the pleasure to meet nice colleagues, strengthen collaboration and talk about what I like the most: savannas, fire, and our FAPESP projects @programabiota.bsky.social
Preparing my talk for tomorrow! It is always a pleasure to talk about fire and the Cerrado to colleagues abroad! This time, in Copenhagen!
January 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Preparing my talk for tomorrow! It is always a pleasure to talk about fire and the Cerrado to colleagues abroad! This time, in Copenhagen!
First meeting with the local stakeholders to discuss how science can contribute to the local fire. It was also an amazing opportunity to share knowledge!
January 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
First meeting with the local stakeholders to discuss how science can contribute to the local fire. It was also an amazing opportunity to share knowledge!
(Online) talk at the EcoEvo seminar at the University of Alberta: talking about the Cerrado and fire 🔥 , hosted by Dr Viktoria Wagner. Thank you Viktoria ☺️
January 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
(Online) talk at the EcoEvo seminar at the University of Alberta: talking about the Cerrado and fire 🔥 , hosted by Dr Viktoria Wagner. Thank you Viktoria ☺️
LEVegians presenting the research projects from the lab! Go LEVeg!
December 12, 2024 at 9:32 AM
LEVegians presenting the research projects from the lab! Go LEVeg!
Training future vegetation scientists? At least showing them how amazing and fun it is to be a vegetation scientist!
December 2, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Training future vegetation scientists? At least showing them how amazing and fun it is to be a vegetation scientist!
Drinking our paper with my dear friend Frances Siebert! @agenciafapesp.bsky.social @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social #forbs
November 22, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Drinking our paper with my dear friend Frances Siebert! @agenciafapesp.bsky.social @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social #forbs
Botanizing in a recently burned savanna: nice discussions about post-fire flowering and learning from the best savanna ecologists and botanists: Marcelo Simon, Frances Siebert abd William Bond
November 16, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Botanizing in a recently burned savanna: nice discussions about post-fire flowering and learning from the best savanna ecologists and botanists: Marcelo Simon, Frances Siebert abd William Bond
We recently got a big FAPESP project approved! For the next 5 yr, me, Alexander Christianini, Vânia Pivello and Davi Rossatto (PPs’ project) will be leading the research involving fire effects on plant communities ecophysiology, ecosystem services, plant-animal interactions (1/2)
November 12, 2024 at 6:08 PM
We recently got a big FAPESP project approved! For the next 5 yr, me, Alexander Christianini, Vânia Pivello and Davi Rossatto (PPs’ project) will be leading the research involving fire effects on plant communities ecophysiology, ecosystem services, plant-animal interactions (1/2)
