Paper describing the fire-survival strategies of first-year acacia seedlings published in The Journal of Ecology

Congratulations to Arjun Potter and the entire team for their paper that was just published in the Journal of Ecology (see the paper here). The paper describes how acacias use up to two different strategies to survive fire in their first year: they either resist topkill with thickened stems and/or regrow from below-ground stems. The paper is the first to report results from the multi-factor common garden experiment conducted at Nelson Mandela African Institution for Science and Technology in Arusha Tanzania. The experiment was a full-factorial common garden experiment to measure the separate and combined impacts of fire, drought, grass competition, and herbivory on mortality rates of 3- to 6-month-old ‘Acacia’ seedlings (sensu lato) in the genera Vachellia and Senegalia. Great work Arjun - stay tuned because there is more to come.