Xerophyta on a cliff wall.

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Shaped by context: Evolutionary trajectories of #desiccation tolerance in land plants

By Rose Marks, R. Shawn Abrahams, & Jenna Ekwealor

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

#botany #plantscience #evolution #gametophyte #sporophyte

Biofilm takes flight as Saharan bacteria shield themselves to survive dust storm journeys How do living bacteria survive on the surface of dust particles carried by desert storms from the Sahara and Egypt to Israel?

#Biofilm takes flight as #Saharan #bacteria shield themselves to survive #dust #storm journeys ...

| #Egypt | #Israel | #Firmicutes | #Bacillus | #desiccation | #radiation | Via @sciencex.bsky.social

Life without water? A few organisms manage it.
A new paper by Assistant Professor Jenna Ekwealor and co-authors in Nature Communications explores desiccation tolerance. Read more here!
🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#biology #desiccation #biotech #conservation

Happy to share this super interesting perspective we wrote on desiccation tolerance research. Congratulations to the great team of researchers involved!
#plantresearch #desiccation

Weak #Asthenosphere Beneath #Eurasian #Interior Inferred From #AralSea #Desiccation
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #inSAR #rebound #geology #mantle #crust #rheology #spatialanalysis #continent #hydrology #viscoelastic #model #uplift #lithosphere #humanimpacts

Natural range expansion promotes stress resistance as a component of dispersal syndromes in non-native insects

https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10797

#BiologicalInvasion #InvasionFront #ResidenceTime #Starvation #Desiccation #Temperature

Tardigrade

#Lowcostcosplay #Tardigrade #Microorganism #Extremophile #Cryptobiosis #Anhydrobiosis #Resilience #TunState #Hydrophobic #Desiccation #Radiationresistant #MicroscopicAnimal #Science #Biology #animal #life #organism #hoodie #fashion #cosplay #art #delicious #biotic

#flowers #driedflowers #bouquet #wildflowers #orange #green #white #aesthetic #aesthetics #cottagecore #decay #disintegration #desiccation and even in this there is beauty; and even in this there is life

Heat and desiccation tolerances predict bee abundance under climate change - Nature A 16-year dataset of abundance patterns of a diverse assemblage of bees in New Mexico, USA predicts declines for many bee species and indicates that drought-tolerant taxa will prevail in a warming and...

#Heat and #desiccation tolerances predict #bee #abundance under #ClimateChange

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Study

Syntrichia ruralis: Emerging model moss genome reveals a conserved and previously unknown regulator ... bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

New #moss #genome:
Syntrichia ruralis: Emerging model moss genome reveals a conserved and previously unknown regulator of #desiccation in flowering plants.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...