Tom Le Breton
Postdoc working on fire management in threatened ecosystems and conservation of threatened plant species.
Centre for Ecosystem Science, UNSW and the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre
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- Reposted by Tom Le BretonHappy to share my new publication in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415.... Vegetation spillovers from Aus protected areas are common & widespread; also, management inside the area can affect vegetation outside the area. Spillovers don't factor much into conservation policy, but perhaps they should! 🧪🌍🌐
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- Reposted by Tom Le Breton🔥New Paper!🔥 from Julianna Santos, @ltkelly.bsky.social @lluisbrotons.bsky.social @urbanfrogger.bsky.social @cristinaaponte.bsky.social , Lauren Ponisio, Stephen Mason, and David Keith! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- Reposted by Tom Le Breton🔥Are you investigating how plants respond to shifting fire regimes? Submit to our new Special Collection🌱 Title: "After the fires: Plant responses and resilience under shifting fire regimes" 📖 Submit by 30 Sept 2025. 🧪 Details 👉 www.publish.csiro.au/bt/content/C... #Fire #Botany #Plantscience
- Reposted by Tom Le BretonCongratulations to Dr Chantelle Doyle @saltandbrine.bsky.social - joining ABC's Top5 Science program for 2025 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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- Reposted by Tom Le BretonI've been banging on about this issue - immature alpine ash, fire and seed - for years so it was great to get a chance to contribute to this ABC Landline story about it. "A 'time bomb' in the state's ash forests" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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- Reposted by Tom Le Breton🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍 We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
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- New paper out! After the 2019-2020 #fires in Australia our team undertook #IUCN Red List assessments of fire affected #plant species, to handle the volume we undertook paired rapid and full assessments and compared their accuracy 1/4 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
- The rapid assessments accurately identified species as threatened in 84% of cases despite much less time and data per species. Importantly they were accurate in identifying Critically Endangered species (67%) and Endangered species (54%). 2/4
- Varroa mite arriving in Australia has been a big worry for agriculture and bee keeping but it will also result in a massive decline in feral honeybee populations. This will affect many native plant species visited by honeybees, our new paper aimed to understand what those effects might be 1/5
- A new #OpenAccess article in #AusJBotany identifies potential consequences of the spread of varroa mite and highlights the large knowledge gaps that currently limit understanding of the subsequent impacts on the Australian flora. @ausjbotany.bsky.social www.publish.csiro.au/bt/BT24020
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- Thanks to everyone who came, if you still have questions or just want to chat and see me around #ESAus2024 come say hi.
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- New paper out in Conservation Biology. We propose a simple conceptual model for examining threat management programs and identifying areas for improvement. We show how it can be used in the context of managing fire around threatened flora. 1/4 dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
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