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#ausnews#wildoz

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/...

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

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…