In Mediterranean ecosystems, fire-sensitive species live in rocky areas, not because they prefer them, but because they are fire refugia. Yet, sometimes fire is intense enough to get there, reducing the population size Juniperus phoenicea, E Spain #IFSegorbe 🧪🌍🔥🪴🌱🍁🌳🪴 #plantsci wildfire

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What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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1/5 New paper in PNAS led by Andreas Wion! 🔥🌍🧪 For centuries, dry-conifer forests in the western U.S. burned frequently, but mostly at low severity, meaning most trees were not killed by fire. Read on for details ...

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Happy to share new preprint led by Deepti on snow leopard-mediated apparent competition between wild ungulates and domestic livestock in the Trans-Himalaya! We find classic apparent competition mediated by the iconic snow leopards, making this result and time series especially valuable. (1/5)

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Thrilled to have my first thesis chapter published in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We combine genomics, gene editing, and performance experiments to reveal the genetic basis and functional consequences of hurricane-induced trait shifts in island lizards! Check it out: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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