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Testing Times for Plant Family Recognition
This paper features an illustrated tutorial for 11 of the largest plant families in Australia (over 50% of Australia’s plant species), augmented with a series of interactive tests.
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Astrobotany on the web
Do alien gardeners breed black plants?
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Herbaria are a major frontier for species discovery
Should effort, funding, and research focus be directed as much to examining extant herbarium material as collecting new material in the field?
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PHYLIP and phylogeny inference
PHYLIP, a 30-year-old phylogeny inference package, remains a popular and reliable tool for analysing data, particularly in botany.
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The origin of modern Botany and the Infinite Monkey Cage
Some ideas work and some ideas don’t. Sticking Prof Brian Cox and Robin Ince together for half an hour each week works. The Infinite Monkey
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Everyday gripes of a journal editor, part 53: gene or protein?
Confession time: one of the main reasons why I chose to study ecology all those years ago was in order to avoid what, to me, were
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Everyday gripes of a journal editor, part 94: why can’t people cite online references properly?
Here in the Annals’ office I’ve just been checking through an accepted paper before passing it on to our typesetters so that proofs can be