Hear from Alonso Ponce about how we sample #plastics in stormwater with our #LittaTrap from EnviroPod. Part 2 coming soon!

I work on desert algae and how desiccation tolerance evolved in chlorophyta. I am in NYS, and can do spring. ;)

very excited that the first paper from my phd is out in ajb!

Mosaic of three images. Top left, someone holding a mobile phone using the infinitylists Shiny app. Top right, two botanists on a boardwalk in a Melaleuca swamp in northern Sydney, looking closely at a small plant on the ground. Bottom, pink flowers from a rosy sundew (Drosera spatulata). Photo credits (clockwise from top left): Kate Mesaglio, Hervé Sauquet, Thomas Mesaglio

The new issue of #AppsPlantSci is online!

Highlights include using #LargeLanguageModels to extract plant trait information, improved #ComputerVision for disease detection in #cacao & an R package to generate place-based species checklists

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450... #botany

Navigating the possibilities and pitfalls of biocrust recovery in a changing climate Biological soil crusts are complex communities composed of lichens, mosses, bacteria, and cyanobacteria that create a living skin on the soil surface across drylands worldwide. Although small in size...

Our new review is out led by @michalaphillips.bsky.social examining #biocrust recovery amidst climate change 👇

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Photo of Trillium albidum Freeman (Melanthiaceae), shown here, a white-petaled Trillium native to the Pacific western United States.

Taxonomic insights from floral scents of western North American sessile-flowered #Trillium

New #AJB research by Kjirsten Wayman, Matthew Reilly & Alaina Petlewski

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #taxonomy #Melanthiaceae

Our latest paper on metagenomics of sulfur cycling bacteria has been selected for the spotlight section of Environmental and Applied Microbiology!! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...