Alun Salt
Alun (he/him) is the Producer for Botany One. It's his job to keep the server running. He's not a botanist, but started running into them on a regular basis while working on writing modules for an Interdisciplinary Science course and, later, helping teach mathematics to Biologists. His degrees are in archaeology and ancient history.
Herbivores can cause dioecious plants to partly swap sex
An unexpected killer lurks deep in Italian lakes
When landscapes are abandoned, do butterflies flee?
Warm nights without respite accelerates the death of seedlings in a drought
Botanists find that some herbaceous use fire as a signal to prepare for boosted flowering in the following year
Botanists develop a model for times when a plant thriving in a garden is a matter of life and death
When foraging for pollen from flowers, timing can be crucial
Climate change will hit peat bogs not so much from greater heat but from the reduced precipitation that comes with the heat
Increasing the copies of genes increases the ecological niche that nettles can thrive in
Virtual conferences are more inclusive. Will that disappear when in-person conferences return?
Asian squirrels go nuts for nectar
Trees alone will not save us
