Fire facilitates herbaceous diversity in the Miombo of Africa. Fire also supports a unique diversity of orchids, gladioli, ferns + unique savanna life forms, underground trees. The Miombo spans an area the size of Western Europe. There was NO data on herbaceous communities in response to fire.
AbstractBackground and Aims. Little is known about the response of ground layer plant communities to fire in Miombo ecosystems, which is a global blind spot of
Ecol Soc of Australia, and Australian Soc Plant Sci have good conferences. Australian Flora Foundation, Hermon Slade, and Australia-Pacific Science Foundation are funding agencies you could look into.
Here's something new that's a bit different to what I normally work on. Led by PhD student Chongzhe Zhang, in this article we propose a framework for "Linking nematodes and ecosystem function: a trait-based framework". authors.elsevier.com/c/1igSqcZ3X0....
Word clouds based on google scholar profiles (not surprisingly) do a very good job at summarising what you work on and find most interesting! Here's mine:
Fellow botanists and R coders, what's your go-to package for updating a list of species names? Bonus points if it works for the Australian Plant Census and/or the Australian Plant Names Index, but I'd be happy with a northern hemisphere one too. 🧪👩🏼🔬
Hi Ros!
Hi Blue Sky community! Looking forward to reconnecting with plant sci (and other) people who were once on twitter, and freshly connecting with new people!
