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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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“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
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Mast year for Quercus coccifera in Valencia, Spain
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Quercus coccifera with lots of acorns
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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drmammals.bsky.social
Relacionado con todo esto que comentábamos ayer, también tienes los estudios y artículos de @jgpausas.bsky.social que por tu trabajo creo que te pueden resultar de interés. Este en concreto a mí me resulta particularmente inspirador: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Humboldt and the reinvention of nature
One of the contributions of Alexander von Humbondt to science was the description of altitudinal vegetation patterns. And this is his description (1807) for the Chimborazo, the highest mountain in Ec...
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November 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
La dimisión de Mazón, el juicio, o su posible prisión abordan la causa *próxima* (actuó indebidamente), pero no la causa *última* (el PP selecciona gente inapropiada para cargos de responsabilidad pública). #PPmaimes
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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wildwoods.bsky.social
Tree plantations burn exceptionally hot and often spread high intensity fire into adjacent vegetation -- true in Europe, NAmerica, Australia,etc. Yet plantation forestry is ostensibly climate-smart? Try again. 🌎
jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Oct 16
Pine plantations burn more severely & recover more slowly than other vegetation types. This is observed using the forest map (L) or the forest inventory (R), Spain
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/10/16/p...
🧪🌎🔥🍁🌳🔥 wildfire @jappliedecology.bsky.social
Relationship between fire severity (dNBR, x axis) and early postfire recovery (y axis) for the different vegetation types affected in the Bermeja, Culebra and Hurdes wildfires (Spain). A: based on the Spanish Forest Map (MFE) data; B: based on the Spanish National Inventory (IFN). Dashed lines correspond to global means.
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Two PhD student positions on Fire Resilience of Amazon Forests (Application deadline Nov 26), Wageningen
@masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social

www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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vacrislu.bsky.social
Por fin llegó a Tenerife! A ver qué nos cuenta @jgpausas.bsky.social 🔥🔥
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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joenoonan.bsky.social
Update: The journalist, Gabriele Nunziati, has lost his job for asking this question.
joenoonan.bsky.social Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · Oct 14
'You say Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza?'
antizionistjew.bsky.social Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · Oct 14
During an EU Commission press briefing, a journalist questioned the double standards of European policy, asking whether Israel should also be held accountable for rebuilding Gaza — just as the EU demands Russia
The question was met with silence, as the EU spokesperson declined to comment.
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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timcurran.bsky.social
The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity - Repeto‐Deudero @jgpausas.bsky.social

@jappliedecology.bsky.social

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity
Our findings provide quantitative evidence that pine plantations can exacerbate fire severity under contemporary climate conditions, and that, once burned, these areas seldom recover. Effective spati...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity

Final version now available #OA @jappliedecology.bsky.social
By @irene-repeto.bsky.social @ojedacopete.bsky.social @divulgauca.bsky.social

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌎🔥🍁🌳🔥 wildfire
jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Oct 16
Pine plantations burn more severely & recover more slowly than other vegetation types. This is observed using the forest map (L) or the forest inventory (R), Spain
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/10/16/p...
🧪🌎🔥🍁🌳🔥 wildfire @jappliedecology.bsky.social
Relationship between fire severity (dNBR, x axis) and early postfire recovery (y axis) for the different vegetation types affected in the Bermeja, Culebra and Hurdes wildfires (Spain). A: based on the Spanish Forest Map (MFE) data; B: based on the Spanish National Inventory (IFN). Dashed lines correspond to global means.
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Seed dispersal as a backup system to resprouting & seeding during post-fire regeneration
doi.org/10.1093/aob/... @annbot.bsky.social
by @jmgncosta.bsky.social et al

Great to see a paper that makes such strong use of the BROT DB (www.uv.es/jgpausas/bro...)! @ctavsanoglu.bsky.social

🧪🌍🔥🌿🪴 opendata
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
In our Mediterranean ecosystems, autumn arrives as little brushstrokes in the landscape

Serra d'Espadà, E Spain
#landscapes #Mediterranean #autumn 🍁🌿📷
Mountain landscape dominated by evergreen plants, with few deciduous trees. Serra d'Espadà, Valencia, Spain
November 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Final version now available #AmJBot @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes
🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire
jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Sep 24
Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only!
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social
Sequoia sempervirens (Coast redwood) resprouting epicormically after a high-intensity fire Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia) with a fire scar in the base from a surface fire
November 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Global change at a glance: The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
doi-org.csic.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/bios... | @aibsbiology.bsky.social

"Climate change is a threat to ecosystem and human health, but it is also fundamentally a social justice issue" @williamripple.bsky.social
15 plots about time series of climate-related human activities. 16 time series of climate-related responses
October 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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jappliedecology.bsky.social
Dense and continuous pine plantations fuel severe wildfires and hinder recovery 🔥

Reducing tree density can lower impacts, guiding more resilient afforestation and fire management strategies in Mediterranean ecosystems 🌲

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Un homenatge silenciós
La @ua.es convoca demà, 29 d'oct, 1 minut de silenci com a homenatge i record a les víctimes de la dana. Les banderes del campus onejaran a mitja asta.

La concentració silenciosa tindrà lloc a les 12 h als voltants de l'escultura de la mà, Dibuixar l'espai, UA.
jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 20d
La alta frecuencia de perturbaciones puede generar adaptaciones. Un intervalo de 75 años entre dos inundaciones (2024 color, 1949 BN) parece ser no suficiente para adaptarse.
Fotos: www.lasprovincias.es/comunitat/ri...
Gratis: archive.is/0nVzq

#DANA #Valencia #MazónDimisión #MazonDimissio
29 de octubre de 2024 28 de septiembre de 1949 29 de octubre de 2024 28 de septiembre de 1949
October 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Una bona forma de transmetre als xiquets/es el paper dels ramats en el control dels incendis forestals.
Editat per: @pegoviu.bsky.social
pegoviu.com/ovelles

🌿🔥🌳🐑📚💙 #EduSky @paucostaf.bsky.social
Portada del llibre "Les ovelles bomberes", editat per Pego Viu Primera pàgina del llibre "Les ovelles bomberes"
October 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM