Capturing reflectance spectra from specimens of critically endangered plants in Denmark and Germany, Eriophorum gracile and Saxifraga hirculus. Comparing historical populations with 2025 samples collected by @nhmdk.bsky.social PhD student Sverre Schou. At Senckenberg Institute Plant Form & Function

Searching for the critically endangered slender cottongrass, Eriophorum gracile, and other beautiful sedges in Danish #peatlands - with @ninaronsted.bsky.social & PhD student Sverre JS

#bogs #fens #rareplants #botanicalresurveys

Herbarium specimens reveal drivers of Arctic shrub growth @newphyt.bsky.social

Shrub specimens can be used to recreate annual growth chronologies and help understand plant responses to global change.

With @annebeejay.bsky.social, ZA Panchen, JDM Speed

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Exploring the Harvard University Herbaria today! Digging into their rich botanical collections & for a project on the impacts of global change on sedges #Cyperaceae 💚

I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the Spring Equinox than to purposefully wander around our botanical garden and monitor early spring flowering plants for our phenology research
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#spontaneousplants #phenobs #phenology #botanicalgarden #plantphenology #livingcollections

Sorting through thousands of Danish butterfly specimens in our collection & getting a new MSc student started on a project to look at phenological mismatches over time between plants and butterflies in Denmark

#phenology #specimens #naturalhistory #lepidoptera

A wonderful view of our #botanicalgarden - from my office window.
Our research group has moved into new office spaces - from one end of the garden to another - at the Natural History Museum Denmark. Perfect view point for keeping a eye on garden #phenology