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Twitter versus Facebook: July 2016
Our Twitter and Facebook audiences don’t always agree on what they find interesting, but they both agreed that there was a problem in July.
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Twitter versus Facebook: June 2016
This month we learn plants can give and they can take away, but both Nature Plants and AoB PLANTS are happy to give.
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Twitter versus Facebook: May 2016
We started May with a revolution. I'm taking over from @ajcann as new Weblog Editor for AoB Blog. I'm beyond excited about
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Twitter versus Facebook: April 2016
April saw our readers choosing quite different posts on different channels but, as Nigel Chaffey would point out, it’s all inter-connected.
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It’s the taste of flesh* that makes a Sundew salivate**
If you want to get a Sundew to feed on its prey, it has to do more than just wriggle.
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Twitter versus Facebook: March 2016
March was almost a Nigel Chaffey grand slam. It took something special to stop him taking the most popular post on all our channels.
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Aerobotanists wanted! Apply at the Zooniverse
Some of us like to help save the planet. Others prefer to relax. Now a new site at the Zooniverse means armchair botanists can do both as they explore the Amazon rainforest.
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Twitter versus Facebook: February 2016
What did you feel the love for around Valentine’s Day? Our look back at Twitter versus Facebook continues…
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Cell expansion links leaf veins and stomata
In some woody plants, adjusting leaf size (via epidermal cell size) balances water supply (veins) with transpirational demand (stomata). However, it is unclear whether this is
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Twitter versus Facebook: January 2016
This year for our look back at the past twelve months, I’m going to compare what caught the imagination of our Twitter audience with what
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Humans are good for forests
You are all forgiven for doing a ‘double-take’ upon reading that headline. Usually it’s all bad news when humans and forests are concerned, so
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Tropical conifer response to altered CO2 concentration
Conifers dominated the lowland tropics 100 million years ago, but have now been largely replaced by angiosperms, coincident with a large decline in atmospheric CO2. Using