Garlic mustard plant

One more #Brassicaceae for #wildflowerhour

Alliaria petiolata - garlic mustard

Mid-Sussex wildflowers in good form today.
#wildflowerhour
Arum maculatum, Crataegus monogyna, Hyacinthoides non-scripta, Anemone nemorosa.

Good luck! It’s the start of a lifelong passion.

Cardamine pratensis - Cuckoo flower today and 49 yers ago that I collected for my undergraduate botany degree.
#wildflowerhour #Brassicaceae
@bsbibotany.bsky.social

Ecotypic Identity and Manipulated Rainfall Modulate Diversity‐Productivity Relationships Across a Precipitation Gradient Understanding how diversity-productivity relationships vary across environmental contexts is critical for predicting grassland responses to climate change and guiding restoration. Using a reciprocal ...

We find that diversity-productivity relationships are not as simple as a unimodal relationship.

Ren et al. Ecotypic Identity and Manipulated Rainfall Modulate Diversity-Productivity Relationships Across a Precipitation Gradient. @ecol-evol.bsky.social

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

【🎉Latest accepted article】
#IncreasingPrecipitation exacerbates the negative effect of nitrogen addition on diversity of semi-arid steppe early in the growing season

#CommunityComposition | #FunctionalDiversity | #Grassland | #NitrogenDeposition

@mapjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...

Latest lab pub. Congrats Saroj

Forest Transition Under Climate Pressure: Land Use Land Cover Change in the Greater Shawnee National Forest

#Climatechange is projected to disrupt recovery from past forest decline, pushing transitions toward mixed and evergreen forests.

www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/18...

Oh, I so wish I were going to this rendez-vous avec l'Ina in Lyon.

Scroll down to : Mercredi 1er avril 2026 - 18h, Soirée Edmond Locard.
#forensics #truecrime

archives.rhone.fr/page/rendez-...

It's exciting to see more #herbarium specimens digitized.

We can now link vouchers to papers directly.

For example. Here's the link to the papers and the vouchers for my study of the rare grass Festuca longifolia.

The paper: shorturl.at/9hHMO
The vouchers: shorturl.at/vVUJe

Below is one of them

It would be better if we didn't cause extinctions in the first place. #bandaidsolutions

Is there a downside for authors to S2O?

royalsociety.org/news/2026/02...

Did you catch the poisoning scene from #Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 5) in the movie version of #Hamnet?

I talk about this forensic botany example of deliberate poisoning in crime fiction in my short book "Juice of Cursed Hebenon".

a.co/d/08T1N7ie

𝐒𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤.

Did you know that forensic botany evidence was key to his conviction? I talk about this evidence on pp 78-79 in my book 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠: 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒 𝐶𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠. doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...

Grasslands are important in so many ways and their loss to agriculture is unappreciated.

I hope I'm wrong about the future.

See my Memory Transfers two-book #dystopian #science-fiction series.
Shanya's Saga books2read.com/ShanyasSaga
Elite Memories books2read.com/EliteMemories

There's some interesting botanical forensic evidence in this video.

What is/are the plants? (prob. something growing close by)
If they were grabbed from the yard, then did the suspect leave footprints in the soil?

#forensicbotany #botany #forensics

Publication alert. Just accepted @jpecol.bsky.social

Li, K., Y Wang, X Wang, BS Foster, AJ Wood, DJ. Gibson, G Li.

Li, K., et al. Increasing precipitation exacerbates the negative effect of nitrogen addition on diversity of semi-arid steppe early in the growing season.

Congratulations Kunyu! 🎉

Thanks @scotlandyardcsi.bsky.social for the shoutout!

#authors #amwriting #writerscommunity #crimefiction #Books #BookSky #CrimeWriters #forensics #botany #plants

Using Local Seeds In Prairie Restoration—data support the paradigm Choice among local, non-local, and cultivar seeds for restoring native ecosystems is not purely an academic question—it also has practical consequences.In this article we summarize a series of genetic...

For example, here's an old paper from the lab led by Danny Gustafson.
#restoration #prairie #grassland #seeds

npj.uwpress.org/content/6/1/...

Can native UK seeds survive - and thrive - in a changing climate? Why our native grassland seeds - stored, studied and supplied by our Millennium Seed Bank - are able to support restoration in a warming UK.

It's good to see the 'seed source matters' issue for climate change informed restoration being looked into for UK native plants by Kew @rbgkew.bsky.social.

We've been looking into this topic for big bluestem (Andropogon gerardi) in US tall grass prairies.

www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

New Year Plant Hunt reveals influence of rising temperatures on British and Irish flora The New Year Plant Hunt, co-ordinated by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI), is a survey recording plants in flower around New Year’s Day.

#Climatechange evidence in your back garden. Great work @bsbibotany.bsky.social

New Year Plant Hunt reveals influence of rising temperatures on British and Irish flora.

www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Academic frustration…

Journal Editor: your study is within scope for the Special Issue, please submit.
Me: Great, here it is.
Reviewer 2: The paper is out of scope.
Handling Editor: Reject.
Me: Huh?

Starbucks corporate #greenwashing

It’s difficult for me to accept #Starbucks argument that buying bottled water is a good thing.

Why we edit proofs...

because the author of the chapter probably didn't mean to say, "prostate plants".

#ImABotanist

Routledge Handbook of Grasslands This comprehensive handbook represents a definitive state of the art overview of grasslands from multiple, interdisciplinary and global perspectives. Despite the real and intrinsic values that grassla...

Thanks. I think you'll find it a useful book.

More details at: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...

Proofing our chapter for our forthcoming Handbook of Grasslands.
Did we really write that?

‘Soil is more important than oil’: inside the perennial grain revolution Scientists in Kansas believe Kernza could cut emissions, restore degraded soils and reshape the future of agriculture

‘Soil is more important than oil’: inside the perennial grain revolution

I’ve tried kernza flour- delicious, whole wheat taste.

Measuring teachers’ motivation, beliefs, leadership engagement, and networks: validation of instruments for teacher education and professional development programs This paper presents two empirically developed and validated instruments that can be used to conduct quantitative and/or qualitative research on teacher education or evaluate professional developmen...

Publication alert!

Our latest #NSF #NoyceProgram funded survey instrument

Measuring teachers’ motivation, beliefs, leadership engagement, and networks: validation of instruments for teacher education and professional development programs

doi.org/10.1080/1941...

Apply!

Every journal has a great team. My fav… @journalofecology.bsky.social