Defence traits vary across leaf ages in the thistles (Cardueae) - besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Great work from Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong & Jaein Choi in @funecology.bsky.social

For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for safekeeping in a vault of native California seeds. n.pr/4ttOsq4

A botanist searches for the seeds of the rare Death Valley Sage

For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for safekeeping in a vault of native California seeds.

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Our new #BIEN biodiversity data workflow paper is out! BIEN is an ecosystem of modular, open-source BIEN tools for collecting, harmonizing, and validating biodiversity data -- and an integrated global database (BIEN db) of plant occurrences, traits & geographic ranges. doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪🌐🌾🌵

BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data

The rapid expansion of biodiversity data presents new opportunities to understand and forecast biosphere dynamics. However, disparate and dispersed data, taxonomic and geographic inconsistencies, ...

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Check our new publication about shifted spring ephemeral pollination window impacted by flowering time, pollinator occurrence, and canopy closure under climate change! #phenology #springbeauty #phenologicalmismatch #climatechange @parklab.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

JCI - Hyperinsulinemia-induced upregulation of adipocyte TPH2 contributes to peripheral serotonin production, metabolic dysfunction, and obesity www.jci.org/articles/vie...

Our new paper on #plant #invasive species and #phenology is out! doi.org/10.1111/geb.... Nonnative plants tend to be phenologically and phylogenetically more distant from natives than natives are from each other, but among them, invasive species are closer to natives than non-invasive ones.

We are looking for a #postdoc! Interested in the #ecology #biodiversity #plants #DataScience? Join us and study #biodiversity through space🌍 and time⏳. More at: bio.purdue.edu/lab/park/new...

Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees