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Elena Lopez Peredo
@elperedo.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @rittigers.bsky.social
American J Botany Associate Editor @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Evolutionary biologist searching for green algae where you least expect them!
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Hear from Alonso Ponce about how we sample #plastics in stormwater with our #LittaTrap from EnviroPod. Part 2 coming soon!
September 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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leahveldhuisen.bsky.social
very excited that the first paper from my phd is out in ajb!
botsocamerica.bsky.social Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Jun 19
Rare species do not disproportionately contribute to phylogenetic diversity in a subalpine plant community

New #AJB research by @leahveldhuisen.bsky.social, Verónica Zepeda, Brian Enquist & Katrina Dlugosch

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #phylogenetics #fireweed
Pink fireweed blooming in the foreground with mountains, including Mt Crested Butte, in the background.
June 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
The new issue of #AppsPlantSci is online!

Highlights include using #LargeLanguageModels to extract plant trait information, improved #ComputerVision for disease detection in #cacao & an R package to generate place-based species checklists

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450... #botany
Mosaic of three images. Top left, someone holding a mobile phone using the infinitylists Shiny app. Top right, two botanists on a boardwalk in a Melaleuca swamp in northern Sydney, looking closely at a small plant on the ground. Bottom, pink flowers from a rosy sundew (Drosera spatulata). Photo credits (clockwise from top left): Kate Mesaglio, Hervé Sauquet, Thomas Mesaglio
June 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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kristinayoung.bsky.social
Our new review is out led by @michalaphillips.bsky.social examining #biocrust recovery amidst climate change 👇

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Navigating the possibilities and pitfalls of biocrust recovery in a changing climate
Biological soil crusts are complex communities composed of lichens, mosses, bacteria, and cyanobacteria that create a living skin on the soil surface across drylands worldwide. Although small in size...
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
Taxonomic insights from floral scents of western North American sessile-flowered #Trillium

New #AJB research by Kjirsten Wayman, Matthew Reilly & Alaina Petlewski

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #taxonomy #Melanthiaceae
Photo of Trillium albidum Freeman (Melanthiaceae), shown here, a white-petaled Trillium native to the Pacific western United States.
December 11, 2023 at 3:53 PM
elperedo.bsky.social
Our latest paper on metagenomics of sulfur cycling bacteria has been selected for the spotlight section of Environmental and Applied Microbiology!! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
December 12, 2023 at 4:17 PM