First review is out! You can preorder the book now through the University of Chicago Press website (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...www.publishersweekly.com/9780226823577
Hipp (Field Guide to Wisconsin Sedges), herbarium director at the Morton Arboretum in Illinois, serves up a stimulating explorat...
I'm extremely excited about this award! It will fund pangenomes of eastern North American white oaks and ENA red oaks, as well as resequencing of two common gardens (eastern white oak, Quercus alba, and northern red oak, Q. rubra) and individuals across the range of all species studied.
Congrats to our Community Science Program Annual Call awardees! Recipients & collaborators include our Bluesky friends @alexjprobst.bsky.social, @cavenderg9.bsky.social & @andrewlhipp.bsky.social 🖥️🧬 Full list: jgi.doe.gov/announcement-fy25-csp-annual @axelvisel.bsky.social @lbnlbiosci.bsky.social
These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from freshwater estuaries reshaped by dam removal to Antarctica's photosynthetic mats — to reveal how these systems adapt and ...
Came across a photo of this piece by @chaseprairie.bsky.social, photograph Liz's work in 2018 (?! is that possible, Liz?). Wonderful work, by a great artist, about one of my favorite naturlist-scientists: the late, great Virginia Kline, ecologist at the UW Madison Arb till 1996ish. Thanks Liz!
Wonderful visit from BEF China and oak syngameon scientists at #Cedar_Creek_ESR#NSF#Dimensions_of_Biodiversity project
Bosworth and Toller report that swegle means "bright as the sun, splendid, brilliant." Is their definition not applicable or no longer accepted?
A fascinating study from 2011 of hybridization in the California valley oak and blue oak (Q. lobata and Q. douglasii). Take-homes: * Hybrid adults serve as conduits for intersp gene flow * High pollen contribution from outside the reserve * Hybrid acorn % < hyb adult % (?!) doi.org/10.1086/659646
Notes on pollination of pale jewelweed (Impatiens pallida); niche partitioning in great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica) and cardinal flower (L. cardinalis); and web orientation in the spiny orb-weaver, Micrathena gracilis; plus general field notes: botanistsfieldnotes.com/2024/09/04/e...
