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botsocamerica.bsky.social
Fine-scale diversity models reveal impacts of invasive Gaillardia pulchella on regenerating vegetation in a sand dune #grassland

New #AJB article by Zsófia Orbán & László Bakacsy

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #ecology #IndianBlanket #biodiversity
The plexus graph illustrates the interaction network between the invasive plant Gaillardia pulchella and neighboring species in a sand dune grassland. Positive interactions are shown in red and negative interactions in blue, with varying line thickness indicating the strength of interactions. The graph highlights the competitive and occasionally facilitative effects of the invasive species on native plants such as Festuca vaginata and Dianthus serotinus.
February 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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cookjonil.bsky.social
Such fantastic news! A critically important issue which must be tackled urgently - great to see UKTEPoP partners collaborating closely on this. #NatureForAll  #diversity #equity #inclusion #CitizenScience @jncc.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
bsbibotany.bsky.social BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · Feb 3
We're proud to be 1 of 10 UKTEPoP partners who today published a joint statement pledging our commitment to diversity, equity & inclusion in UK species monitoring schemes:
jncc.gov.uk/our-work/ukt...
We need to better understand how biodiversity loss is impacting under-recorded areas & communities.
Botanists surveying an urban/ post-industrial site in South Wales
February 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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jennytpgrows.bsky.social
#BotanySky 🌱
christhorogood.bsky.social Chris Thorogood @christhorogood.bsky.social · Feb 2
Iris bismarckiana: an achingly beautiful flower that grows wild on shelves of the Middle Eastern hillside.

Upper Galilee, 2018.
Iris bismarckiana: an achingly beautiful flower that grows wild on the shelves of the Middle Eastern hillside.
February 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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scottzona.bsky.social
I spent much of my research career studying palms (#Arecaceae), & I’m sometimes asked, “Why palms?” Up this week: 10 things I love about palms!
1. They have amazing architecture & presence. Jubaea chilensis may be my favorite palm. What regal grace! #palms #botany 🌾🧪
Photo of a solitary, thick-trunked, pinnate-leafed palm growing in scrubby, hilly habitat in central Chile.
February 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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rosiebrooks.bsky.social
🌿 A big shoutout to all the bryologists who study mosses, liverworts, and hornworts! Your dedication to understanding these tiny but mighty plants enriches our knowledge of plant diversity and ecosystems. 🌍 #Bryology #PlantScience #NatureLovers 🌿
Bryologist
January 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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jeremysell.bsky.social
Spotted beebalm (Lamiaceae: Monarda punctata) can be found throughout much of eastern North America, often in sandy soil. The large white bracts that surround the smaller flowers attract many pollinators, especially wasps. Indiana Dunes National Park, Indiana, 08/11/2012.
Spotted beebalm (Lamiaceae: Monarda punctata) can be found throughout much of eastern North America, often in sandy soil. The large white bracts that surround the smaller flowers attract many pollinators, especially wasps. Indiana Dunes National Park, Indiana, 08/11/2012.
January 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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hsauquet.bsky.social
Amorphophallus titanum Big Bloom Bang happening right now at Botanic Gardens of Sydney! Hard to believe all the fame and hype gathered by this little plant over the past week!
#Putricia #Araceae #botany
January 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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mossmalarkey.bsky.social
A rather nice bonus find on Brean down last Saturday, a nice bryoparasytic fungi amongst mixed bryophytes,after putting a sample under the microscope the spores revealed the first ever uk record of Octospora entosthodontophila,host specific to Entosthodon sp ,my 6th uk first for a Bryoparasytic.
January 25, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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sophialayne.bsky.social
It’s magnolia season at the always beautiful San Francisco Botanical Garden 🌸 #nature #botany #floral #gardens
January 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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ucpath.bsky.social
I had originally shared a link to this article with my infectious disease class last year. Viruses are cool in all kinds of ways. David Goodsell makes them works of art. 🧪

www.science.org/content/arti...

#science #InfectiousDisease #Viruses #ScienceArt
Meet the scientist painter who turns deadly viruses into beautiful works of art
David Goodsell’s scientifically precise watercolor paintings of the cells and microbes he studies grace journal covers and impress colleagues
www.science.org
January 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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scottzona.bsky.social
Remusatia vivipara is an epiphytic/lithophytic aroid that produces bulbils on these long, semi-erect stolons. The bulbils have recurved scales that hook onto passing animals (epizoochory). This mode of dispersal is very rare among epiphytes. #Araceae #clone #aroid #dispersal #botany 🌾🧪🌱
Close-up photo of the plant's upright stolon. It is covered by small bulbils with recurved hooks. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.
January 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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jopabinia.bsky.social
This paper is going to be an instant classic and should be taught in every paleo class! 🧪⚒️
egmitchell.bsky.social Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · Jan 22
Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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rewolfer.bsky.social
Dzień dobry?🙋‍♂️☕️

📕 Nikt nie jest ostatecznie martwy, dopóki nie uspokoją się zmarszczki, jakie wzbudził na powierzchni rzeczywistości – dopóki zegar przez niego nakręcony nie stanie…
T. Pratchet

🎥 David Lynch

🎶 youtu.be/kFRdoYfZYUY?...
Hania Rani – Live from Studio S2
YouTube video by Gondwana Records
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January 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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runningx.bsky.social
Dlatego trzeba iść na wybory i głosować
January 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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davidbflower.bsky.social
UK first as vertical rocket launch licence granted. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shetland Spaceport: Firm secures vertical rocket launch licence
Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) have been awarded a licence allowing them to launch rockets from Shetland.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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scottzona.bsky.social
Hummingbirds are smart enough to take advantage of nectar resources even when the flowers are not the classic red color. Here’s a hummingbird foraging on a columnar cactus photographed in Guanajuato, Mexico. 📷: Cat CCBYNCND2 #pollination #Cactaceae #botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of an unidentified columnar cactus with yellowish-white flowers emerging along the stem. A hummingbird is visiting one flower.
January 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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muddypollen.bsky.social
pages of SWAFR flowers, by pollination strategy (apparently open access)
www.publish.csiro.au/bt/Fulltext/...
e.g, who knew there was so much buzz-pollination 2/2 🧪🌾
January 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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str1una.bsky.social
Z dzieciakami trzeba rozmawiac,to bardzo ważne!
January 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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leonsimons.com
Looking at another year of @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social reanalysis data, it still looks like the AMOC is rapidly slowing down.

Northward heat transport through the tropical Atlantic Ocean has decreased significantly.

A decrease of 0.5 PW represents ~16,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules per year!
January 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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marekuss.bsky.social
86% społeczeństwa popiera wprowadzenie okresowych badań lekarskich dla myśliwych. M. in. PSL sprzeciwił się temu projektowi i trafił on do kosza. 😔 Każdy 'wypadek' na polowaniu obciąża moralnie tych którzy, glosowali za odrzucieniem projektu PL2050.
January 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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auditorynerves.bsky.social
Climate breakdown drove the annual global temperature above the internationally agreed 1.5C target for the first time last year, supercharging extreme weather and causing “misery to millions of people”. 🧪

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024
Highest recorded temperatures supercharged extreme weather – with worse to come, EU data shows
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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bas.ac.uk
This ice is old. Like, *OLD* old 🧊⌛

In search of climate data from 1.2 million years ago, scientists have just sampled some of the oldest ice on earth for the first time!

The full ice core is 2.8km long - drilled deep through the thick East Antarctic ice sheet down to bedrock.

#climatescience 🧪
Two people carry an insulated box into a long, underground ice tunnel. There are several boxes - this is where they are storing the cut ice cores. Photo: PNRA, IPEV
January 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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funecology.bsky.social
📰Published📰 How does the number of soil-dwelling creatures affect fungi in grasslands and heathlands?

https://buff.ly/4gKfvHD

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How does the number of soil-dwelling creatures affect fungi in grasslands and heathlands?
Andrés. A. Salazar-Fillippo, Willem-Jan Emsens, Seppe Strybos, Charlotte Liczner, Ladislav Miko, Jan Frouz, Erik Verbruggen, Rudy van Diggelen This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecolo…
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January 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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funecology.bsky.social
📰Published📰 How does biodiversity loss following the conversion of natural forests to savannas and parklands alter ecosystem multifunctionality?

https://buff.ly/409LBp8

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How does biodiversity loss following the conversion of natural forests to savannas and parklands alter ecosystem multifunctionality?
Florent Noulèkoun, Sylvanus Mensah, HyungSub Kim, Juliano Sènanmi Hermann Houndonougbo, Michael Mensah, Woo Kyun Lee, Yowhan Son, Asia Khamzina This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecol…
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January 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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ncas-uk.bsky.social
2024: The UK’s 4th warmest year on record highlights the growing urgency of climate action.

Read more in our latest article, featuring climate scientist @edhawkins.org: ncas.ac.uk/2024-uks-fou...
2024: UK’s fourth warmest year on record highlights urgency for climate action - NCAS
2024 is ranked as the UK’s fourth warmest year on record. Discover 5 pledges for taking action on climate change.
ncas.ac.uk
January 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM