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Spectacular epicormic resprouting of majestic redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) after the 2020 fire in the Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz, California. About 95% of the redwoods resprouted; they are used to crown fires! You just can’t stop taking photos ...
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June 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
But if you look closely, there is a lot of biological activity: Erica australis resprouting, Narcissus_coronatus, Pterospartum tridentatum (resprouts & seedlings).
Llamas de Cabrera, Aug 2025 fire, León, Spain

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Erica australis resprouting after fire from a lignotuber Narcissus_coronatus flowering postfire Pterospartum (Genista) tridentatum resprouting after fire Seedlings of Pterospartum (Genista) tridentatum emerging after fire
April 11, 2026 at 7:54 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
The origin of lignotuber resprouting in a juniper provides evidence of the onset of the Mediterranean climate

Phylogenomic evidence of fire regime changes: the case of a resprouting juniper by Gutiérrez-Larruscain et al #EcolLett onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Phylogenomic Evidence of Fire Regime Changes: The Case of a Resprouting Juniper
We propose that fire-adaptive traits, such as lignotuber resprouting, can serve as proxies to estimate fire regime shifts. We estimated the origin of lignotuber resprouting in the Iberian Juniperus o...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Find the differences!
Two scrubby evergreen oaks 1 year postfire, growing about 10,000 Km apart: Quercus coccifera (Valencia, Spain), Q. berberidifolia (California, US)

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Quercus coccifera resprouting after a fire, Valencia, Spain Quercus berberidifolia resprouting after fire, Los Padres NP, California, USA
May 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
#Pinus yunnanensis: a model for #fire #ecology studies
The species includes fire-embracer & fire-tolerator varieties. Examples:
2026: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
2021: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Pinus yunnanensis var. pygmea resprouting after a fire
April 25, 2026 at 10:15 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Resprouting is more complex than you think 🙃

"Pre-disturbance plant condition drives intraspecific resprouting variability in Mediterranean shrubs" by @mayazomer.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
@jxbotany.bsky.social

🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🌾 Anthyllis cytisoides & Globularia alypum #PlantBiology #SEM #botany
Structural equation modeling (SEM) of resprouting success and vigour along an aridity gradient
June 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Some cork oaks (Quercus suber; probably the original forest) survived the pine plantation & the fire! Now resprouting epicormically. Cork oak is much more resilient than those plantations! Serra da Estrela fire 2025, Portugal
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A cork oak resprouting epicormically in the middle of dead planted pines, Serra da Estrela fire (August 2025), Portugal. Sorry for the low quality of the photo!
March 24, 2026 at 7:25 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
After @ecoflor.bsky.social meeting in Tortosa, I visited the 2025 Paüls fire (nearby). Many plants are resprouting & some already flowering! It was too windy for pollinators

Narcissus assoanus, fire-stimulated flowering
Juniperus oxycedrus, lignotuber resprouting doi.org/10.1111/ele....

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Narcissus assoanus flowering 7 months postfire, near Tortosa, Tarragona, Spain Juniperus oxycedrus resprouting from a lignotuber 7 months postfire, near Tortosa, Tarragona, Spain
February 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM
brownkuma.dad
Just several hours after planting, the green onions are already resprouting.

Not too shabby for trimmed grocery store green onions.
brownkuma.dad Brownkuma @brownkuma.dad · Jun 28
First batch.
June 29, 2026 at 4:56 AM
writtennred.bsky.social
The hibiscus that I thought was lost to the freeze is resprouting!!!!
March 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
maggiemaefish.bsky.social
Precisely. What do they think we are, amphibians? Just willy nilly resprouting replacement hair follicles like some kind of lizard person??
January 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
dendromecon27.bsky.social
We also saw a lovely resprouting stand of post-fire aspen. They are close to turning colors for fall.
September 16, 2026 at 2:31 PM
abomination.computer
dwarf chinkapin resprouting leaves after the heinous and insidious deer feasted upon them
dwarf chinkapin oak
August 29, 2024 at 5:03 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Resprouting paper by @mayazomer.bsky.social et al. now online with a temporal OA link

🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🌾 Anthyllis cytisoides & Globularia alypum #PlantBiology #SEM #botany

academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
August 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
irishrainforest.bsky.social
All along the seafront near Dunboy, Beara: an example of the insane waste of time and energy in cutting invasive rhododendron without immediately treating the freshly stumps with herbicide.

It's all rapidly resprouting, and very soon the situation will be back to square one: an utter disaster.
September 17, 2025 at 6:53 AM
damnarbor.bsky.social
Life finds a way. The giant catalpa that was knocked down in the storm earlier in the spring is sprouting.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
Resprouting catalpa.
June 9, 2026 at 12:27 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Some young redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) in Point fire (2024), Sonoma County, California.

It is clear they are well adapted to crown fires!!
More on epicormic resprouting: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... | jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2017/11/23/p...

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May 30, 2025 at 5:37 AM
aliciavaldesr.bsky.social
Interesting paper! Fire-induced resprouting increases within-individual phenotypic and epigenetic variability, with fitness implications
September 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
jordigpausas.bsky.social
After some days visiting a few burnt areas in northern Argentinian Patagonia, here are some species that resprout from the base after a wildfire: Lomatia hirsuta (Proteaceae), Aristotelia chilensis (Elaeocarpaceae), Schinus patagonica (Anacardiaceae), Nothofagus antarctica (Nothofagaceae)
Sprouts of Lomatia hirsuta Aristotelia chilensis resprouting after fire Schinus patagonica resprouting after fire Nothofagus antarctica resprouting after fire
October 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
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/...

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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
September 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
80incognito.bsky.social
Reseeding,
resprouting,
the veld recovers slowly.
The March flower show continues.

Enjoy d'weekend 🌸
March 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
jgpausas.bsky.social
'Fire buffers drought impacts on reproduction in a resprouting Mediterranean shrub' by @jaimesaizb.bsky.social
Final version available #OA doi.org/10.1002/oik....
@oikosjournal.bsky.social

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jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Jan 28
Fire buffers drought impacts on reproduction in a resprouting shrub
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Under drought, burned plants had ⬆️prob. of flowering, produced +flowers, set +seeds & heavier seeds, than unburned
Saiz-Blanco et al @oikosjournal.bsky.social

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One of the graphics of the paper on Anthyllis cytisoides resprouiting after drought, showing model predictions and observations of the data analysed in 2022 and 2023; fire occurred in 2021. For flowering and fruiting, the negative effects of drought are stronger on unburned plants (A and C). Burned plants produced nearly four times more flowers than unburned plants (B), and had a higher seed set and heavier seeds than unburned plants in both years (D and E).
July 8, 2026 at 8:01 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
It was burned in an experimental fire in mid-January. In April, it was lush & green, with many plants resprouting. And now (early July) it is a blanket of dry grasses (Piptatherum milliaceum) that seems ready to burn again!
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6 months after the experimental burn, covered with dry grass
July 12, 2026 at 11:44 AM
jgpausas.bsky.social
Californians also plant Pinus canariensis, a species native to the Canary Islands. It is very conspicuous after fire due to its ability to resprout from epicormic buds
Bridge fire, San Gabriel Mtns
More info:
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2017/11/23/p...
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2017/05/07/p...

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Pinus canariensis resprouting epicornically
May 25, 2025 at 12:33 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

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November 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM