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It’s our secret, the Science of Rumour
Humans are social creatures and we love to share gossip, but we share what we like, not necessarily what is true. So are you living in
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The ‘natural’ solution might not be best when your wildlife isn’t natural
Many ecosystems have been degraded or modified, and these are the sorts of systems you target for restoration. But when a system has been altered so
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Natural History for the Future of Ecology
Biosciences has a couple of free access papers out on Natural History. Natural History’s Place in Science and Society is a 17 author call for
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Erotic Botany wins National Poetry Competition
Botany is sexy. To prove it, Bernard and Cerinthe by Linda France has won the National Poetry Competition in the UK. The Guardian reports the poet
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Randy Olson on the ABT model
Scientists want to share their research and the public want to know what they’re up to but sometimes it doesn’t seem they share a
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Does your garden taste as good as it looks?
Bees in the UK have lost nearly all their natural habitat and gardens now provide a vital source of food, but gardeners are planting more exotic
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The March 2013 issue of Annals of Botany is now Free Access
The March 2013 issue of Annals of Botany is now Free Access. The cover image is of two generations of moss, the younger sporophytes growing from
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The Importance of Access
Kevin Folta has put up a thought-provoking post on his blog, Illumination. There’s been a flurry of news stories around a new research paper
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Do pollinators isolate new species of plants?
It’s time for the last paper of the pollinator-driven speciation week. The previous posts have examined how pollinators can select and cause diversity among
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Plants adapt to accommodate a long proboscis in South Africa.
Our Grant-Stebbins week continues. Today it’s a question of looking at the geographical context of floral adaptations. Why might you find a plant here
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Floral adaptation to pollinator guilds in Switzerland
Pollinator-driven speciation week continues, with Floral adaptation to local pollinator guilds in a terrestrial orchid, a paper by Sun, Gross and Schiestl. The star is
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Pollinators as selectors for evolution
Following from yesterday, do pollinators act as selectors for evolution? A pollinator shift explains floral divergence in an orchid species complex in South Africa by Peter