Digital Botany Focus Issue
As Botany One’s Digital Botany Focus Issue comes to a close, this reflection looks back at the people, platforms and hidden labour behind the digital biodiversity revolution.
The Week in Botany
This week: The human connection to digital botany and what we know about the plants closest to extinction.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
From seaweed watercolours to global biodiversity databases, Te Papa’s herbarium shows how digital botany can make plant collections more accessible, connected and alive.
Plant of the Week
Our first moss for Plant of the Week: the blunt-leaved bog moss.
Puzzles
⚽ From Europe to North America
Science Shared
This week: Lichen genomics, AI in ecological research, organelle positioning and more.
Puzzles
🇩🇯 Happy Birthday Djibouti!
Digital Botany Focus Issue
Every plant photograph you upload to iNaturalist holds an untapped scientific superpower, thanks to PhenoVision. This new framework has processed nearly 40 million iNaturalist images.
Ecosystems
Research from the Australian Alps reveals that some mountain flowers act as miniature solar heaters, providing pollinators with warm refuges when cold conditions would otherwise keep them grounded.
Ecosystems
When Amazonian forests flood, fish take over the work of seed dispersal, carrying viable seeds through rivers and helping plants colonise new areas.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
Digital botany can do something extraordinary. It can take records, DNA sequences, phylogenetic trees, threat assessments and maps, and use them to highlight species that need
Digital Botany Focus Issue
What name do you go by? Does everyone call you the same name everywhere you go? Probably not, and the same stands for plants. The names