Plants & People
Increase the Impact of Your Research Paper in One Step
Annals of Botany had an editorial meeting recently one of the topics that came up was how can authors increase the readership of their paper? One
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The Art of Urban Botany
A few links have come in through the feeds today on urban botany. It could be interesting if you can’t get away for a holiday.
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Summer* Reading
*Or winter reading for our followers in the better hemisphere. In the northern hemisphere, the summer break is upon us. If you’re looking for some
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So what ARE the 7 most important plants?
A while back Annals Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison was asking what ten plants should botanists know about. I’ve taken it a bit further with a
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Tomorrow’s Table by Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak
Quite a few people have recommended this book to me, but I hadn’t made time to read it. My loss, this is an excellent book.
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Behind the scenes of a hundred journals
Last weekend the European Association of Science Editors had their conference in Split, Croatia. For me it was an opportunity to look behind the scenes of
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How important is gene flow?
There’s a handy article available from the American Journal of Botany that’s caught my eye: Is gene flow the most important evolutionary force in
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Connection: Hollywood Storytelling Meets Critical Thinking by Olson, Barton and Palermo
Scientists want to communicate their findings and their work means they have a well of novel discoveries, but their language can be so specialised that no
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Phytomining Future Found in the Philippines?
Say hello to Rinorea niccolifera, described in the open-access journal PhytoKeys. The leaves of the plant are special. Like a few other plants around the
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Gingko, a writing tool that will help you organise your text
There seem to be plenty of writing apps launching on the web at the moment. Most seem to be a replacement for Notepad or similar, with
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The May 2013 issue of Annals of Botany is now free access
The May 2013 issue of Annals of Botany is now free access. The cover image for this month is a flower that looks quite different, depending
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Blogging can have a negative effect
At AoB Blog we encourage scientists to blog because we think it’s a good idea for scientists to tell people about their research, including other