A global team of plant experts harnessed new tools to map worldwide hotspots of botanical evolution over millions of years, revealing overlooked regions crucial for protecting nature's phylogenetic diversity against...
Tag - Anthropocene
Michela Osnato
Plastic pollution: Plants fight back!
Researchers have developed a novel filter, made from tannic-acid treated sawdust which may help reduce plastic pollution, while another approach has been presented to create a backyard-compostable bioplastic, using...
Nigel Chaffey
Botany in a Barbie world is not fantastic
Plants are resilient, but even they are struggling with the increasing presence of microplastics.
More plants will be ‘losers’ than ‘winners’ in the future, thanks to human activity
Fait vos jeux, but while there will be some winners, the odds are stacked against most plants doing well in the future.
Dale Maylea
Fi Gennu
Low-intensity logging and hunting have long-term effects on seed dispersal but not fecundity in Afrotropical forests
Hunting and logging can alter ecological communities, but their long-term effects are seldom studied in Afrotropical forests. Tropical trees respond to environmental disturbance on timescales that usually surpass the...
William Salter
The trouble with travelling tree rings
There is a huge demand for long-term climate data, and tree growth rings could help with that, but an article in Quaternary Science Reviews warns there should be some caution using the data, as not all rings are the...
Biodiversity flourishes in an ancient rubbish tip
The preservation of archeological sites does not always overlap with the conservation of biodiversity. At the most basic level, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization separates cultural...
Alun Salt