Heath Beckett

New paper out with @AnabelleCardoso and William Bond on how fire-sensitive forests survive in flammable savanna landscapes in Africa, and how to go about conserving these systems frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #OpenAccess

🏆Read the excellent winning & shortlisted papers for the 2022 Harper Prize in our Virtual Issue!📚👇 #plantecology #ECR @A__illuminati @HeathBeckett @community_sci @GerhardMiriam @Jorge_island @nehamohanbabu @SIMONEMATIASDE3 @VannRub @JulesSegrestin besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.111…

A slight departure from fire and savanna ecology, here's our paper on African Penguins. Investigating the changes in potential nesting habitats off the coast of Southern Africa over the last 22 000 years @ClimateSchoolSU @vonderHeydenlab @MatiesResearch tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.298…

‘They were hanging on by the skin of their teeth (before the human industrial era) and then we came along and klapped them with guano mining, commercial fishing and now heat stress. We hope their resilience will [carry] them through, but that could ... #Echobox=1681967766" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-0…

@my_plants_dance @jennifer_pow Looks like Nikki has already suggested it; Coates Palgrave's Trees of Southern Africa

@jennifer_pow @HeathBeckett had a good, and beautifully bound, book but I can't remember the name. Heath?

Hey! Does anyone have any good recommendations for tree ID guides that would be useful for eastern or Southern Africa.. especially miombo woodlands? Thanks!

Pathways of savannization in a mesic African savanna‐forest mosaic following an extreme fire besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… @HeathBeckett @stavercarla et al.

“Savannization” is just the wrong word and concept to describe the risk to tropical forests (as well as being clunky)…. This great little thread makes the point well

Very pleased to see William Bond (not on Twitter) elected to be a Fellow of the @royalsociety. More than any other person I believe he has opened our eyes to the ecology, global context and importance of open ecosystems such as savannas and grasslands.... royalsociety.org/news/2021/05/n…

Our study in Biological Conservation confirms that endemic species in global biodiversity rich-spots are increasingly at risk to #climatechange. These findings add to the urgency of #ClimateAction sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The diversity of post‐fire regeneration strategies in the cerrado ground layer besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Happy to share our new paper on cerrado ground layer strategies to recovery after fire!!!! First article from my PhD Thesis. @AleTFidelis @ecologiaplicada

Soil texture matters for root-niche separation in savannas! New paper out from my dissertation, with Jesse Nippert, @RicardoHoldo, and @stavercarla besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Disturbance refugia are one piece of the puzzle for conservation and adaptation to climate change. doi.org/10.1002/fee.21…. Nature's 'slow lanes'. @OregonState @forest_bionet @RefugiaResearch @NW_CASC

Incredible information on COVID-19 related societal risk and vulnerability in South Africa immediately accessible at sarva.saeon.ac.za/covid-19/. In-depth spatial data on disease burden, economic vulnerability, health system capacity etc. Amazing work by colleagues @Saeonews

PhD opportunity in Costa Rica, French Guiana and France: modeling biodiversity trajectories in disturbed forests in the neotropics. Deadline to apply 15th of April paracou.cirad.fr/content/downlo… Please RT!

EARLY VIEW ⏰ A catastrophic tropical drought kills hydraulically vulnerable tree species @jennifer_pow @gevargu @julio_calvo @ACGuanacaste 📝buff.ly/33K1btZ

OUT NOW Population collapse and retreat to fire refugia of the Tasmanian endemic conifer Athrotaxis selaginoides following the transition from Aboriginal to European fire management 📝buff.ly/2IizAGv

@AleTFidelis @LEVeg_Unesp @AgenciaFAPESP @Unesp_Oficial So sad I'm missing this! See you next year