Plants & People The 2020 AoBP ECOS Awards Elise Gornish, Chris Muir and Larry York are the 2020 recipents of the AoBP ECOS Awards William Salter 24 Aug 2020
Plants & People Seaweeds, the “food factories” from the sea Unlocking the secrets of seaweed could have major benefits for human health. Marco Garcia-Vaquero 19 Aug 2020
Ecosystems View from the sky sees new hope for restoring degraded forests Degraded tropical forests are not lost causes. Restoration could help capture carbon and aid ecosystem recovery. Alun Salt 14 Aug 2020
Plants & People Finding Meaning in the Undergraduate Research Experience Meet them where they’re at, and show them they’re making an impact, say speakers. Erin Zimmerman 12 Aug 2020
Plants & People Symposium looks at new frontiers in collecting & collections Collections may be poised for a “renaissance of biodiversity specimen collecting.” Erin Zimmerman 11 Aug 2020
Plants & People Botany 2020: More Botany Than You can Shake a (Virtual) Stick At The shift to an online conference has brought some benefits to Botany 2020. Erin Zimmerman 30 Jul 2020
Plants & People Does biodiversity make gardening less stressful? There are a few studies saying a garden can improve wellbeing, but what if your garden is a source of stress? You’re not alone, but research gives some hints about what to change to help improve things. Alun Salt 29 Jul 2020
Plants & People Machine learning can help clear herbarium backlogs & potentially discover new species Computers can combat the slow pace and shortage of expertise that plagues specimen identification and species discovery. Erin Zimmerman 28 Jul 2020
Plants & People Training and high quality images needed for best online annotation of digital specimens Volunteers produced the most accurate annotations in-person, but both in-person and online volunteers gave good results. Erin Zimmerman 27 Jul 2020
Plants & People Can’t Botanists agree on common names..? A rose by any other name… would be incorrectly described. Nigel Chaffey 24 Jul 2020