Robbie Hart
@oreotrephes.bsky.social
Director, William L. Brown Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden -- plants for people (and vice versa). Programs in Himalayan climate change, mountain plant ecology, community based conservation in Madagascar, and ethnobotany.
How do social and ecological factors shape the global distribution of medicinal plants? Nawal Shrestha et al. show variable documented medicinal plant richness, test human drivers, and emphasize the need for integrated conservation strategies. #PlantsAndPeople www.cell.com/current-biol...
The human fingerprint of medicinal plant species diversity
Shrestha et al. show that human ecology significantly impacts global medicinal plant
diversity. While overall plant diversity remains the primary driver, longer human
occupancy increases medicinal pla...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
How do social and ecological factors shape the global distribution of medicinal plants? Nawal Shrestha et al. show variable documented medicinal plant richness, test human drivers, and emphasize the need for integrated conservation strategies. #PlantsAndPeople www.cell.com/current-biol...
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#Postdoc in #landscape ecology with me
How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍
Apply 30th of November
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How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍
Apply 30th of November
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Landscape Ecology
Department of Physical Geography is one of the major departments within the Faculty of Science. The department has approximately 100 employees and educates approximately 1 000 students annually. Our r
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October 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#Postdoc in #landscape ecology with me
How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍
Apply 30th of November
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍
Apply 30th of November
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Alpine plants used as incense in Bhutan are also being impacted by climate change in the Himalayas. Currently on view in the #SmellingTheBouquet #PlantsAndScentsInTheGarden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social
Learn more link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Learn more link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Alpine plants used as incense in Bhutan are also being impacted by climate change in the Himalayas. Currently on view in the #SmellingTheBouquet #PlantsAndScentsInTheGarden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social
Learn more link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Learn more link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Have you seen the pink lanterns (𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢) in the📍Climatron?
Its nickname "pink lantern" came about due to the way its pink flowers droop on the arched stems in a way that the whole effect resembles a lantern!🏮
📸 Nathan Kwarta
#MOBOTGarden
Its nickname "pink lantern" came about due to the way its pink flowers droop on the arched stems in a way that the whole effect resembles a lantern!🏮
📸 Nathan Kwarta
#MOBOTGarden
June 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Have you seen the pink lanterns (𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢) in the📍Climatron?
Its nickname "pink lantern" came about due to the way its pink flowers droop on the arched stems in a way that the whole effect resembles a lantern!🏮
📸 Nathan Kwarta
#MOBOTGarden
Its nickname "pink lantern" came about due to the way its pink flowers droop on the arched stems in a way that the whole effect resembles a lantern!🏮
📸 Nathan Kwarta
#MOBOTGarden
What is the scope of ethnobotany data in herbaria, and what are the next steps to effectively and ethically share this information?
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
Repositories of biocultural diversity: Toward best practices for empowering ethnobotany in digital herbaria
As herbaria digitize millions of plant specimens, ethnobotanical information associated with them is becoming increasingly accessible. These biocultural data include plant uses, names, and/or managem....
doi.org
June 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
What is the scope of ethnobotany data in herbaria, and what are the next steps to effectively and ethically share this information?
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
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Get to know 4️⃣ #BlackBotanists throughout history as welcome all to join us in this year's Juneteenth celebration at the Garden!
🌱 Juneteenth at the Garden | June 19 from 9 a.m.–8 p.m.
Learn more: buff.ly/m0MauwI
📸 Tom Incrocci
#MOBOTGarden
🌱 Juneteenth at the Garden | June 19 from 9 a.m.–8 p.m.
Learn more: buff.ly/m0MauwI
📸 Tom Incrocci
#MOBOTGarden
June 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Get to know 4️⃣ #BlackBotanists throughout history as welcome all to join us in this year's Juneteenth celebration at the Garden!
🌱 Juneteenth at the Garden | June 19 from 9 a.m.–8 p.m.
Learn more: buff.ly/m0MauwI
📸 Tom Incrocci
#MOBOTGarden
🌱 Juneteenth at the Garden | June 19 from 9 a.m.–8 p.m.
Learn more: buff.ly/m0MauwI
📸 Tom Incrocci
#MOBOTGarden
Climate change affects not only plants for food and health, but also those important to daily practice, our sensory experience of the world, and traditional culture. 🏔️ 🌱
A Swirling Offering: Climate Change Impacts on Incense and Other Useful Alpine Plants of Bhutan:
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A Swirling Offering: Climate Change Impacts on Incense and Other Useful Alpine Plants of Bhutan:
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A Swirling Offering: Climate Change Impacts on Incense and Other Useful Alpine Plants of Bhutan - Economic Botany
Climate change impacts on social-ecological systems —such as useful plant harvest— can be elucidated through local perceptions and ecological monitoring. To better understand how these two approaches ...
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June 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Climate change affects not only plants for food and health, but also those important to daily practice, our sensory experience of the world, and traditional culture. 🏔️ 🌱
A Swirling Offering: Climate Change Impacts on Incense and Other Useful Alpine Plants of Bhutan:
idp.springer.com/authorize?re...
A Swirling Offering: Climate Change Impacts on Incense and Other Useful Alpine Plants of Bhutan:
idp.springer.com/authorize?re...
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A single domestication origin of adzuki bean in Japan and the evolution of domestication genes |
Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Do you love もち (mochi)? If so (or even if you don't), this is an interesting article on the origin of adzuki beans (あずき), source of "red bean paste".
Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Do you love もち (mochi)? If so (or even if you don't), this is an interesting article on the origin of adzuki beans (あずき), source of "red bean paste".
A single domestication origin of adzuki bean in Japan and the evolution of domestication genes
Adzuki is a central legume in East Asian culinary culture, yet its domestication origin remains debated. Using ~700 accessions across Asia, we show that the initial domestication happened three to fiv...
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June 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A single domestication origin of adzuki bean in Japan and the evolution of domestication genes |
Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Do you love もち (mochi)? If so (or even if you don't), this is an interesting article on the origin of adzuki beans (あずき), source of "red bean paste".
Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Do you love もち (mochi)? If so (or even if you don't), this is an interesting article on the origin of adzuki beans (あずき), source of "red bean paste".
Reposted by Robbie Hart
New paper: The composition of Arctic plant communities appears to be more related to fine-scale environmental variation than to large-scale variation in summer temperatures, and microhabitat buffering may thus delay the effects of #ClimateChange at least in W Greenland doi.org/10.1002/ecog... 🌱🧪🌐
May 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
New paper: The composition of Arctic plant communities appears to be more related to fine-scale environmental variation than to large-scale variation in summer temperatures, and microhabitat buffering may thus delay the effects of #ClimateChange at least in W Greenland doi.org/10.1002/ecog... 🌱🧪🌐
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How does plant diversity respond to the rising temperatures in the Arctic?
@nanitundra.bsky.social has superbly led the complex data through to this fantastic @nature.com article out today.
rdcu.be/ej7AE
@nanitundra.bsky.social has superbly led the complex data through to this fantastic @nature.com article out today.
rdcu.be/ej7AE
April 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
How does plant diversity respond to the rising temperatures in the Arctic?
@nanitundra.bsky.social has superbly led the complex data through to this fantastic @nature.com article out today.
rdcu.be/ej7AE
@nanitundra.bsky.social has superbly led the complex data through to this fantastic @nature.com article out today.
rdcu.be/ej7AE
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library has just surpassed 63 million pages! Spanning 1469–2025, BHL provides invaluable #OpenAccess to the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. 🌎 📚 🌱 #ILoveBHL #BHLib ➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org
April 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The Biodiversity Heritage Library has just surpassed 63 million pages! Spanning 1469–2025, BHL provides invaluable #OpenAccess to the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. 🌎 📚 🌱 #ILoveBHL #BHLib ➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org
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April 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Hi Bluesky, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest #OpenAccess digital library of biodiversity literature and archives. We're a global consortium of 660 contributors who've made 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge freely accessible online. www.biodiversitylibrary.org
April 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Hi Bluesky, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest #OpenAccess digital library of biodiversity literature and archives. We're a global consortium of 660 contributors who've made 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge freely accessible online. www.biodiversitylibrary.org
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A new 35m canopy tree species discovered in Tambopata, Amazon Peru. Drypetes oliveri Vásquez, R.Rojas & L.Valenz. sp. nov.
First collected in 1986 by Gentry & Núñez in a 1-ha plot, fertile material was finally found by Rodolfo Vásquez's team in 2023.
revistas.unamad.edu.pe/index.php/ge...
First collected in 1986 by Gentry & Núñez in a 1-ha plot, fertile material was finally found by Rodolfo Vásquez's team in 2023.
revistas.unamad.edu.pe/index.php/ge...
April 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A new 35m canopy tree species discovered in Tambopata, Amazon Peru. Drypetes oliveri Vásquez, R.Rojas & L.Valenz. sp. nov.
First collected in 1986 by Gentry & Núñez in a 1-ha plot, fertile material was finally found by Rodolfo Vásquez's team in 2023.
revistas.unamad.edu.pe/index.php/ge...
First collected in 1986 by Gentry & Núñez in a 1-ha plot, fertile material was finally found by Rodolfo Vásquez's team in 2023.
revistas.unamad.edu.pe/index.php/ge...
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The botanist Al Gentry changed tropical ecology and helped create the global science of today.
This new article celebrates Gentry's unique innovations, achievements and lasting influence, more than 30 years after his untimely death.
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This new article celebrates Gentry's unique innovations, achievements and lasting influence, more than 30 years after his untimely death.
rainfor.org/wp-content/u...
annals.mobot.org/index.php/an...
March 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The botanist Al Gentry changed tropical ecology and helped create the global science of today.
This new article celebrates Gentry's unique innovations, achievements and lasting influence, more than 30 years after his untimely death.
rainfor.org/wp-content/u...
annals.mobot.org/index.php/an...
This new article celebrates Gentry's unique innovations, achievements and lasting influence, more than 30 years after his untimely death.
rainfor.org/wp-content/u...
annals.mobot.org/index.php/an...
Delicate, fragrant blossoms of Edgeworthia chrysantha are opening in the @mobotgarden.bsky.social stumpery. This and other species in its family have long been staples of eastern hand papermaking traditions. For more on the #PlantsAndPeople stories of its relatives: ethnobiology.org/publications....
March 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Delicate, fragrant blossoms of Edgeworthia chrysantha are opening in the @mobotgarden.bsky.social stumpery. This and other species in its family have long been staples of eastern hand papermaking traditions. For more on the #PlantsAndPeople stories of its relatives: ethnobiology.org/publications....
Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day! Knowing plant species is integral to effective conservation. Here's one of my favorite recent examples of conservation taxonomy in action from some of our expert colleagues in the Madagascar program.
discoverandshare.org/2024/03/12/n...
discoverandshare.org/2024/03/12/n...
Garden scientists discover new Darwin's Orchid species
Missouri Botanical Garden scientists and collaborators discovered and described a new Darwin's orchid species in Central Madagascar.
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March 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day! Knowing plant species is integral to effective conservation. Here's one of my favorite recent examples of conservation taxonomy in action from some of our expert colleagues in the Madagascar program.
discoverandshare.org/2024/03/12/n...
discoverandshare.org/2024/03/12/n...
Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day! Feeling grateful to work with world biodiversity experts like Charlotte (among many many others):
discoverandshare.org/2023/12/18/l...
discoverandshare.org/2023/12/18/l...
Living Legend: Garden Scientist Charlotte Taylor has described more new plant species than any woman alive - Discover + Share
In her 41-year career, Missouri Botanical Garden Scientist Charlotte Taylor has described 500 new species of plants. That makes her the most prolific female author of new plant species alive. She is t...
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March 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day! Feeling grateful to work with world biodiversity experts like Charlotte (among many many others):
discoverandshare.org/2023/12/18/l...
discoverandshare.org/2023/12/18/l...
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President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders.
Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
March 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders.
Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
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Very excited to have Dr. Lúcia G. Lohmann as the #Botany2025 Plenary Speaker! Spread the word. This will be a great talk! #iamabotanist #BotanyWithoutBarriers
We’re thrilled to announce Dr. Lúcia G. Lohmann as the #Botany2025 Plenary Speaker! A leader in neotropical biodiversity, she serves as President & Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Professor at WashU, driving plant science & conservation forward.
www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html
www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html
March 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Very excited to have Dr. Lúcia G. Lohmann as the #Botany2025 Plenary Speaker! Spread the word. This will be a great talk! #iamabotanist #BotanyWithoutBarriers
Yellow sunflower-field below the blue expanse of Yulong massif.
March 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Yellow sunflower-field below the blue expanse of Yulong massif.
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Based on bibliometric analysis, this study explores the various methods and resources used for monitoring SDG 15.4 (conservation of mountain ecosystems). Remote sensing methods on monitoring and assessment of mountain SDG indicators are introduced in detail.
📑 doi.org/10.1080/1753...
📑 doi.org/10.1080/1753...
January 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Based on bibliometric analysis, this study explores the various methods and resources used for monitoring SDG 15.4 (conservation of mountain ecosystems). Remote sensing methods on monitoring and assessment of mountain SDG indicators are introduced in detail.
📑 doi.org/10.1080/1753...
📑 doi.org/10.1080/1753...
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Act now for nature and humanity // three fields of action, see the poster and/or policy brief for details 🐝🦖🐠🦤🦔
November 17, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Act now for nature and humanity // three fields of action, see the poster and/or policy brief for details 🐝🦖🐠🦤🦔
Fieldwork in macro.
(Pulling together a slide deck on our recent alpine plant ecology fieldwork in the mountains of China's southwest)
(Pulling together a slide deck on our recent alpine plant ecology fieldwork in the mountains of China's southwest)
February 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Fieldwork in macro.
(Pulling together a slide deck on our recent alpine plant ecology fieldwork in the mountains of China's southwest)
(Pulling together a slide deck on our recent alpine plant ecology fieldwork in the mountains of China's southwest)
Reposted by Robbie Hart
As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres.
www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...
www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...
'There is no one left': Custer Gallatin National Forest workers reeling from job losses
The cuts weren’t isolated. Across the seven ranger districts that comprise the Custer Gallatin National Forest, Knight said she has heard of at least 32 terminations as of Monday.
www.bozemandailychronicle.com
February 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres.
www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...
www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...