Hybrid simulations of tearing reconnection show magnetic energy converts to ion bulk flows and heating in the nonlinear phase, with island contraction driving parallel ion temperature anisotropy that firehose instabilities regulate by redistributing energy to the perpendicular direction.
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Coherent structures that self-consistently emerge in strong MHD turbulence serve as the dominant sites for localized electric-field intensification and repeated particle acceleration across cosmic plasmas.