Plants are climbing higher across the Himalayas as the climate warms

Alpine vegetation across the Himalayas is shifting uphill as warming temperatures and changing snow patterns reshape mountain ecosystems.

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Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered

University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago Plant specimens and teaching materials that inspired Charles Darwin and qualified him to work as a naturalist on HMS Beagle have been unearthed from an archive in Cambridge and will be used for the first time to teach contemporary students about botany. The fragile specimens, ink drawings and watercolour illustrations of plants belonged to Darwin’s teacher and mentor, Prof John Stevens Henslow, and have been stored in Cambridge University’s herbarium for nearly 200 years. Continue reading...

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Spore morphology and evolution in Isoetes (Isoetales)

Abstract. Isoetes (Isoetaceae, Isoetales) is a cosmopolitan genus with an ancient and diverse evolutionary history that presumably peaked in the Palaeozoic

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‘Nothing is sacred to them’: the race to save rare plants as Russian troops advance

With some of Ukraine’s most valuable biodiversity sites and science facilities under occupation, experts at Sofiyivka Park in Uman are struggling to preserve the country’s natural history

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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

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Biodiversity Finance – Learning for Nature

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First record of bat‐pollination in Merremia (Convolvulaceae)

Merremia platyphylla displays mixed floral traits likely driven by effective pollination by bats and hummingbirds but not honeybees.

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Morning Glory: Misunderstood and Under Appreciated (David Trinklein)

Gardeners are reluctant to plant morning glorys as they are considered hard to control. But, properly located, it can be a very attractive, useful plant

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