Dr Andy Baker
@andybaker.bsky.social
Fire, vegetation and restoration ecologist. Learning to look after Country through the restoration of Good Fire. Living on Bundjalung Country.
www.wildsite.com.au
www.wildsite.com.au
Reposted by Dr Andy Baker
"In conclusion, our results underscore the adverse impact of a zero-fire policy on insect communities, including fruit-feeding butterflies, within this unique ecosystem." Freire-Jr et al.
🧪🌍🌿🔥🌳 wildfire 🦋
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌍🌿🔥🌳 wildfire 🦋
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fostering Biodiversity in Neotropical Savannahs: Fire as a Diversity Driver for Fruit‐Feeding Butterfly Assemblages in the Cerrado
The more frequently burnt areas with shorter time intervals since the last burn episode exhibited higher levels of biodiversity compared to sites where fires were less frequent and under longer inter...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"In conclusion, our results underscore the adverse impact of a zero-fire policy on insect communities, including fruit-feeding butterflies, within this unique ecosystem." Freire-Jr et al.
🧪🌍🌿🔥🌳 wildfire 🦋
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌍🌿🔥🌳 wildfire 🦋
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Dr Andy Baker
Please check out our new paper in Nature Communications titled "Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation" 🧪🌏
Lead author = U Montana PhD student Mark Kreider!
Lead author = U Montana PhD student Mark Kreider!
Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation - Nature Communications
Fire suppression removes less-extreme wildfires, concentrating fires under extreme conditions. The authors use model simulations to show how this “suppression bias” intensifies fire behavior and effec...
www.nature.com
March 25, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Please check out our new paper in Nature Communications titled "Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation" 🧪🌏
Lead author = U Montana PhD student Mark Kreider!
Lead author = U Montana PhD student Mark Kreider!
Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe independent of fuel accumulation and climate change: Nature Communications
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe independent of fuel accumulation and climate change: Nature Communications
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fire facilitates ground layer plant diversity in a Miombo ecosystem academic.oup.com/aob/article/...
March 19, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Fire facilitates ground layer plant diversity in a Miombo ecosystem academic.oup.com/aob/article/...
Reposted by Dr Andy Baker
Indigenous pyrodiversity promotes plant diversity 🌏🧪
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
February 10, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Indigenous pyrodiversity promotes plant diversity 🌏🧪
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Reposted by Dr Andy Baker
FLAMITS: A global database of plant flammability traits
by Ocampo-Zuleta et al. #GEB_macro
Article: doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Data: doi.org/10.5061/drya...
🧪🌍🪴🌾🔥📈wildfire botany #PlantScience opendata
by Ocampo-Zuleta et al. #GEB_macro
Article: doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Data: doi.org/10.5061/drya...
🧪🌍🪴🌾🔥📈wildfire botany #PlantScience opendata
December 25, 2023 at 7:52 PM
FLAMITS: A global database of plant flammability traits
by Ocampo-Zuleta et al. #GEB_macro
Article: doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Data: doi.org/10.5061/drya...
🧪🌍🪴🌾🔥📈wildfire botany #PlantScience opendata
by Ocampo-Zuleta et al. #GEB_macro
Article: doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Data: doi.org/10.5061/drya...
🧪🌍🪴🌾🔥📈wildfire botany #PlantScience opendata
Reposted by Dr Andy Baker
Dense closed canopy forests are less "natural" than many global modelers seem to think. Cool new paper about the ecological history of Europe.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo ...
Landscape reconstruction using pollen data shows that European temperate forests were open and heterogeneous before modern humans.
www.science.org
November 15, 2023 at 6:16 AM
Dense closed canopy forests are less "natural" than many global modelers seem to think. Cool new paper about the ecological history of Europe.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Understanding Fire Regimes for a Better Anthropocene
Must-read (open-access) review in 'Annual Review of Environment and Resources'
#FireRegimes #Anthropocene
www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10....
Must-read (open-access) review in 'Annual Review of Environment and Resources'
#FireRegimes #Anthropocene
www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10....
www.annualreviews.org
November 15, 2023 at 11:51 AM
Understanding Fire Regimes for a Better Anthropocene
Must-read (open-access) review in 'Annual Review of Environment and Resources'
#FireRegimes #Anthropocene
www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10....
Must-read (open-access) review in 'Annual Review of Environment and Resources'
#FireRegimes #Anthropocene
www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10....
Low-intensity fires mitigate the risk of high-intensity wildfires in California’s forests | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Science | AAAS
www.science.org
November 11, 2023 at 12:46 AM
Low-intensity fires mitigate the risk of high-intensity wildfires in California’s forests | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Some long-awaited rains quelling multiple fires across eastern NSW over the last 24hrs.
November 5, 2023 at 3:55 AM
Some long-awaited rains quelling multiple fires across eastern NSW over the last 24hrs.
Herbivory limits plant abundance and diversity at restoration sites globally, even more than in undisturbed ecosystems | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Herbivory limits success of vegetation restoration globally
A meta-analysis shows that stronger effects of herbivory at restored sites limit restoration success.
www.science.org
November 3, 2023 at 10:16 AM
Herbivory limits plant abundance and diversity at restoration sites globally, even more than in undisturbed ecosystems | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Dr Andy Baker
No evidence of a decline in diversity 18 months after the 2019-20 Australian mega fires. In fact, there is an overall increase! with a decrease in extreme fire severity patches
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #@GlobalChangeBio by Gorta et al.
🧪🌍🔥biodiversity wildfires #ausnews #wildoz
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #@GlobalChangeBio by Gorta et al.
🧪🌍🔥biodiversity wildfires #ausnews #wildoz
October 25, 2023 at 6:51 PM
No evidence of a decline in diversity 18 months after the 2019-20 Australian mega fires. In fact, there is an overall increase! with a decrease in extreme fire severity patches
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #@GlobalChangeBio by Gorta et al.
🧪🌍🔥biodiversity wildfires #ausnews #wildoz
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #@GlobalChangeBio by Gorta et al.
🧪🌍🔥biodiversity wildfires #ausnews #wildoz
Reposted by Dr Andy Baker
Interested in how fire affects biodiversity? 🔥🐦🦇🐝🌿
We have a new paper synthesizing work and building a framework for future research and application focused on the hypothesis that "Pyrodiversity begets biodiversity"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We have a new paper synthesizing work and building a framework for future research and application focused on the hypothesis that "Pyrodiversity begets biodiversity"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A roadmap for pyrodiversity science
The Journal of Biogeography explores the intersection of biology and geography, describing patterns and mechanisms that shape biodiversity through time and space.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 27, 2023 at 8:14 PM
Interested in how fire affects biodiversity? 🔥🐦🦇🐝🌿
We have a new paper synthesizing work and building a framework for future research and application focused on the hypothesis that "Pyrodiversity begets biodiversity"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We have a new paper synthesizing work and building a framework for future research and application focused on the hypothesis that "Pyrodiversity begets biodiversity"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A little intro post… I’m a lecturer in fire ecology in Australia. Restoring open ecosystems, restoring beneficial fire regimes and science communication are my core passions.
I’ve been a consulting fire, vegetation and restoration ecologist for 25+ years. 👉www.wildsite.com.au
I’ve been a consulting fire, vegetation and restoration ecologist for 25+ years. 👉www.wildsite.com.au
October 4, 2023 at 11:39 AM
A little intro post… I’m a lecturer in fire ecology in Australia. Restoring open ecosystems, restoring beneficial fire regimes and science communication are my core passions.
I’ve been a consulting fire, vegetation and restoration ecologist for 25+ years. 👉www.wildsite.com.au
I’ve been a consulting fire, vegetation and restoration ecologist for 25+ years. 👉www.wildsite.com.au
Reposted by Dr Andy Baker
Did you know that cities are great places for nature conservation? In fact, sometimes they’re *necessary*. Our research found 39 threatened species that ONLY occur in Australia’s urban environments. So we better get better at sharing cities with nature theconversation.com/the-39-endange…
October 4, 2023 at 1:02 AM
Did you know that cities are great places for nature conservation? In fact, sometimes they’re *necessary*. Our research found 39 threatened species that ONLY occur in Australia’s urban environments. So we better get better at sharing cities with nature theconversation.com/the-39-endange…