@botjlinnsoc.bsky.social
International Botanical Journal covering all aspects of systematic & evolutionary botany of living & fossil plants & fungi 🌺🌿🌴🍄🟫 Homepage: https://academic.oup.com/botlinnean Blog: https://www.linnean.org/news/categories/the-paper-trail
We couldn't do it without our authors, and we look forward to another year of ground breaking research published with us. (4/4)
If you want to be part of our history, why not consider one of our journals as the home for your research this year? Find out how below 👇
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We reinvest back into our journals through our expert Editorial Office, ensuring a high-quality peer review process. Additionally, we promote authors’ work & showcase the research we publish through blogs, online lectures & in-person events, making science accessible to all (3/4). 🌍🧪
As a not-for-profit organisation, the research published with us goes directly towards funding our community outreach & engagement. Most notably, this includes our historical collections, extensive education and events programmes, and our prestigious medals, prizes and awards. (2/4) 🌍🧪
Why not publish your research with a Society Journal? 🧪🌍
The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and ground-breaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience. 🧵(1/4)
Usually there's not mushroom for #FossilFriday in our Botanical journal, but this week we're in luck! Fossils in sedimentary rocks have revealed the co-oldest gilled mushroom forming fungus, and it's pretty spectacular! Check it out 🧪🌍🍄
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We build up the voices of those publishing with us, offering opportunities to share their expertise, expand their audiences & receive recognition for their hard work through our journal blog, events programme & PhD student prizes. We're proud to do this, as we are proud of our community. (3/3)
The value of our journal community is immense; it supports our work to fund education programmes, care for our collections & offer medals & awards for ground breaking individuals across the spectrum of natural history. In return, we have our own role to play: supporting those who support us. (2/3)
As a Society Journal, it's not just the work that we publish that's important, but what that work goes on to support. This blog post sums up our role as a place for research perfectly: we help to shape the very systems through which people access knowledge...a 🧵(1/3) 🧪🌍
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Dryadella, a genus of mini orchids from Central & South America, shows remarkable morphological similarity among species...but why? Using biogeographical analyses, it was found to be monophyletic, with current similarities suggesting the genus is still differentiating! 🌍🧪
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If history is written by the victors, who are the victors in science?
Our latest #ThePaperTrail blog delves into who was holding the pen in taxonomy - a historically male-dominated field - using spiders as a case study. The answer probably won't shock you...🧪🌍
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Rare, endemic species often prove difficult to conserve, as their #Conservation status is hard to determine. This is true for Feliciadamia stenocarpa, a species endemic to a single mountain range in Guinea. Here, phylogenetic analysis helped to tentatively assess it as endangered! 🧪
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Quinoa? Hardly know her...
The wild ancestor of quinoa can be found across Argentina, prompting researchers to investigate leaf shape to understand local adaptation & ecological niche breadth of this species! Curious? Take a LEAF through this paper to find out...🌍🧪
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We had a wonderful time yesterday at Exploring Queerness in Natural History.
We're writing up it up to share in a future blog post, but for now here are some pictures of our fantastic curators @aquadan1.bsky.social and Connor Butler, the lunchtime zine-making, and our afternoon panellists.
We couldn't do it without our authors, and we look forward to another year of ground breaking research published with us.
If you want to be part of our history, why not consider one of our journals as the home for your research this year?
academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p...
We reinvest back into our journals through our expert Editorial Office, ensuring a high-quality peer review process. Additionally, we promote authors’ work & showcase the research we publish through blogs, online lectures & in-person events, making science accessible to all (3/4).
As a not-for-profit organisation, the research published with us goes directly towards funding our community outreach & engagement. Most notably, this includes our historical collections, extensive education and events programmes, and our prestigious medals, prizes and awards. (2/4)
Why not publish your research with a Society Journal? 🧪🌍
The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and ground-breaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience. 🧵(1/4)
We're going down, we're yelling TIMBERRR!
Climate change has influenced genetic diversity & distribution of tropical African trees, but to what extenT? Here, the phylogeography of an endangered timber species was investigated, revealing recurrent range expansion–fragmentation! 🧪
Orchid-ding me!!
Found across the Kra Isthmus in Thailand, 3 varieties of the orchid P. godefroyae exist. But why are there three, how do they differ & does the Kra Isthmus act as a barrier? Guess you'll need to read the paper to find out 🧪🌍😉
In Europe, only a few N American asters (Symphyotrichum) are naturalised or cultivated, with some exhibiting invasive behaviour & others misidentified. How do we fix this? Understanding their cytogeography (distribution of gene complexes), as done here along the Danube...🧪🌍
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Accelerating #BiodiversityLoss, environmental degradation & social instability affect tropical & subtropical regions in South America. Museum collections are critical for documenting & preserving biodiversity, yet often get overlooked. Introducing: INALI snake collection (1/2) 🧪🌍
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This #AustraliaDay fill your boots by celebrating the discovery of mammal pollination of Banksia! Not only do these smelly plants attract non-flying mammals, they actually exhibit the first compelling evidence of primary pollination by rodents (alongside honey possums)! 🧪
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New Blog Alert! 🚨 🐘
Elephants are known to be Ecosystem Engineers, but did you know they are also the largest gardeners on Earth? Our latest blog, written by guest blogger Jin-Gyu Chang, reveals their pollinator role...but it's less green thumb and more elephant dung...(1/6) 🧪🌍
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With the diversity of flowers comes the diversity of ways to analyse them, but which is best & how are they linked? Here, combining flower morphology characters of 951 species revealed that the most common characters are rarely found together in 1 flower! 🌍🧪
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#Conservation
What do you call a reptile that looks like a lizard but isn't? I'm Nothosaurus...
Helping to understand ecosystem recovery after the PT-extinction, a large new nothosaurian is described, adding to the evidence of large predators in the Tethys shallow seas! 🧪👇
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#FossilFriday
We couldn't do it without our authors, and we look forward to another year of ground breaking research published with us.
If you want to be part of our history, why not consider one of our journals as the home for your research this year?
academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p...
We reinvest back into our journals through our expert Editorial Office, ensuring a high-quality peer review process. Additionally, we promote authors’ work & showcase the research we publish through blogs, online lectures & in-person events, making science accessible to all (3/4).
As a not-for-profit organisation, the research published with us goes directly towards funding our community outreach & engagement. Most notably, this includes our historical collections, extensive education and events programmes, and our prestigious medals, prizes and awards. (2/4)
This year, why not publish your research with a Society Journal?
The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and groundbreaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience.