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Zach Gold
@zachgold.bsky.social
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PhD student, plant community ecologist
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jgpausas.bsky.social
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
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🧪🌎🔥🍁🌳🔥 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.
October 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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harmanjaggi.bsky.social
Happy to share our research on traditional farming landscapes in northwest Himalaya is out in Science Advances! Thanks to my advisor Tulja & all the wonderful collaborators- Ale @ornithoale.bsky.social, Katie @kasolari.bsky.social, Akshata, Kullu, Rinchen, Lamaji. 1/7 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
August 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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jacoblevine.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥 Why are wildfires more severe in private industrial forests?

Our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social has the answers:
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Extreme Weather Magnifies the Effects of Forest Structure on Wildfire, Driving Increased Severity in Industrial Forests
Wildfires are consistently more severe in private industrial forests than public ones. In this paper, we identify the drivers of this pattern. Namely, we show that fire severity is elevated in dense,...
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August 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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theogibbs.bsky.social
Happy to share a new preprint! W/ @zachgold.bsky.social, Haylee Oyler, Jonathan Levine and @nathanjbkraft.bsky.social. We use a spatially explicit experimental design to ask:

do higher-order interactions structure the dynamics of annual plant communities?

Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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(A) A conceptual diagram of interspecific and intraspecific higher-order interactions among annual plants. (B) Conceptual diagrams (along with pictures of actual annual plants) of two different spatial arrangements of competitors to manipulate the relative frequecy of inter to intraspecific higher-order interactions.
July 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM