I was just forwarded communications from Duke admins that this is true: one of the largest and most active herbaria in the United States is being closed in the middle of an extinction crisis, because Duke leadership does not wish to support the infrastructure costs.
Exciting team names traditional Botanical University Challenge. Which will you like in BUC2024? Go with the phloem? Cereal killers? The merry STEMs? 28 to choose from. Competition for audience to pick their favourite!! Watch from 14:00 Wednesday 14 February on YouTube youtube.com/@BotanicalUn...
Botanical University Challenge is a fun and educational quiz celebrating plants and the next generation of botanists and plant-aware students. BUC2022 is the biggest ever since we started back in 201...
Botanical University Challenge 2024 starts tomorrow 14:00 GMT Wednesday 14 February. Competition of plant knowledge between UK & Irish teams that love plants! See teams, & plant-related courses they study on our YouTube channel. Quiz streams from same channel.🧪🌱🌹🌴🌵🌿🌍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ3r...
This could be a major setback for agricultural research. Long term field trials are extremely rare. We need these institutions to prepare agriculture for what's to come with climate change. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
Exclusive: Rothamsted Research is having to pause ‘non-essential’ work, according to a letter from its director
Final version published: Microplastic fibres affect soil fungal communities depending on drought conditions with consequences for ecosystem functions 🧪🦠🌱 Lozano et al. Environmental Microbiology doi.org/10.1111/1462...
In watered soils, leaching of microplastic toxic substances into the soil decreases fungal richness, while by contrast in droughted soils, microplastics ameliorate soil properties increasing fungal r...
Interesting opportunity to tender for working with Plantlife to produce a definition of UK Ancient Grassland and to develop a metholodogy for identifying such grassland www.plantlife.org.uk/about-us/car...@pennymarshwort.bsky.social
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📗Nature's Lexicon: Unlocking the enigmatic language of #biodiversity🌱🌏🧪#wetlands#ForNature#WorldWetlandsDay
How well do you know your birds? With the Big Garden Birdwatch taking place this weekend, get prepped and ready by taking our just for fun bird identification quiz. Test your knowledge and see how many you can successfully identify. sussexwildlifetrust.typeform.com/to/Homyyhnf
Team joining contest from university hosting live semi & final Botanical University Challenge 2024! University of Oxford. Queens College and Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum providing the venue. All contest will be streamed on YouTube for viewing at home!
New research from the lab and Emily Conway's first dissertation chapter: out and #openaccessonlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....