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Love and Flowers: When analogies break down
I’ve learned a lot from a new article in AoB PLANTS, the Open Access sister Journal to Annals of Botany. It’s Green love talks;
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Phriday Photo: Wollemi Pine
I was in London earlier this week for an editorial meeting with many of the Annals of Botany members. As part of it, I took my
Ecosystems
Secret to Saving Money is Biodiversity
Biodiversity could be the secret to creating a successful “green roof” according to new research published in the April issue of Annals of Botany. The research,
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What I did on my day off
I visited Biddulph Grange Garden, a National Trust Property in Staffordshire. As visits go it wasn’t a huge success. The sky was solid cloud that
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A mapping tool to add to my wishlist
This tool from Gatewing looks like the kind of mapping equipment I dream about. It’s a very simple idea. You can use a groundstation to
Reviews
Life Ascending by Nick Lane
There’s a tendency to look back to at earlier times as some sort of golden age. Even scientists to this despite the fact that “2011
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Looking for things to like
We’re reworking our Facebook page, now that the new layouts are available. You could use the page as a sampler for the blog, but I’
Ecosystems
Is the earliest wine getting earlier and earlier?
There’s been a rash of stories about how new grape varieties will be needed to fight disease if wineries are to keep flowing. As far
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What should link to where?
I’ve linked to stories fromtwo sites recently. As well as the blog posts, something else happens to them when they reach the RSS feed, Facebook
Ecosystems
Life in a place of death? Pitcher plants as habitat
A place meant for killing proves surprisingly full of life.
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AoB Blog puts on its winter clothes
As well as changing the header image an background stripes, I’ve taken the opportunity to redo the theme. I’ve changed it round pull out
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Reading about Readability
Bora Zivkovic highlighted a post on readability and blogging yesterday on The Science of Blogging. This is a rework of a post on Colin Schultz’s