Ksenija Jakovljević

The Long-Nosed Horned Frog, also known as the Malayan Leaf Frog is a species of frog restricted to the Rainforest areas of southern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia to Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo.

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Towards the automatized identification of moss species from their spore morphology
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: The mechanism and application of the selenium hyperaccumulator Cardamine hupingshanensis: status and challenges
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A rough-skinned toad with a very light brown head and a darker brown back with many very light, cream-colored spots! Their belly is also cream colored! Their parotoid glands are mostly cream colored with small black warty bumps on them!

Our friend the Cuban Spotted Toad lives in central and eastern Cuba! Their call is described as "loud, like a machine gun"! You can hear it here! www.fonozoo.com/fnz_detalles... (photo by kogia)

Morning.

Creamy coloured Field Pansy with a dark veined yellow lower petal against a backdrop of damp soil littered with limestone shards and barley stubble

With a generous smudge of yellow, Field Pansy brightening up a damp rain lashed day on a Lincolnshire field of Barley stubble #WildflowerHour

First, the frogs died. Then people got sick. An emerging area of research is uncovering hidden links between nature and human health.

In Central America, scientists found a spike in malaria cases after the fungus arrived. As frogs died, there were fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae; more mosquitoes resulted in a fivefold increase in malaria cases: wapo.st/3LHtdAj (gift). We allow extinctions at our peril. 🌎

Today in Sumatra we found forest ghost flowers (Aeginetia sp.). This leafless, parasitic plant has no need for sunlight and blossoms unseen in the very depths of the forest.

AI‐based identification of Chinese vascular plants from herbarium specimens: a tool for all herbaria with Chinese holdings Documenting the geographic ranges of the World's > 350 000 named species of vascular plants requires artificial intelligence (AI) because there are insufficient experts to speedily identify dried pl...

New paper in @newphyt.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data:

AI‐based identification of Chinese vascular plants from herbarium specimens: a tool for all herbaria with Chinese holdings 🇨🇳

#CiteTheDOI: ✅

https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70443

Critical Minerals? There’s a Plant for That - bioGraphic Could phytomining—using plants to pull metal out of the soil—put the green in “green transition”?

Critical Minerals? There’s a Plant for That - bioGraphic www.biographic.com/critical-min...

Photo of a small, herbaceous plant with short, indeterminate branches bearing small, elliptical leaves. The branches look like pinnately compound leaves. Small, green fruits dangle in the leaf axils, so we know these are leaves, not leaflets. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

I spend too much time pulling this annual weed from my garden in autumn: It’s Phyllanthus urinaria. At 1st glance, it looks like a single stem with pinnately compound leaves. Look again. The axillary flowers & fruits prove these “leaves” are branches. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Check out karyological studies and taxonomic notes for some representatives of Crocus biflorus aggregate (Iridaceae) at cpb.bio.bg.ac.rs/arhiva/pdf/2... #openaccess

Inside The Race To Save Wild Axolotls Lake Xochimilco in Mexico City is the only place where axolotls live in the wild, and they face growing threats.

What has external gills, a perma-smile, and a limb-regenerating superpower? The axolotl, of course! These salamanders are popular research subjects, but their wild habitat is down to just one lake—and the race to save them is mounting.

Beautiful!

R that I like

This tiny bat is one of the world's deadliest hunters Lions wish they killed this well.

*best Nick Cave impersonation*

Release the b-b-b-b-bats!

www.popsci.com/environment/...

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ICSE2025 Kyoto - Proceeding Submission (special issues on Ecological Research) Call for Proceedings Papers issued by Ecological Research

CALL FOR PAPERS!

Submission deadline for the ICSE Proceedings extended to 31 December 2025

Find more details and previous issues here: sites.google.com/mie-u.ac.jp/...

#ICSE2025Kyoto #SerpentineEcology #UltramaficEcology

@ecologicalresearch.bsky.social

🎉🆕📰🎉: Parasitic plants show striking convergence in host preference across angiosperm lineages
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Sphagnum strictum (green), rubellum (red) and subnitens (orange) #moss #bryophyte

🌳 How do Fabaceae plants allocate nutrients above vs. belowground across China? We found divergent leaf–root nutrient allometries and a dominant role of phylogeny in nutrient variation, except for leaf P & K, which were driven by climate! 🌞

Read here:https://buff.ly/7eO9fir

Top down view of Aspen Bristle Moss green tufts.

A close-up side view of Aspen Bristle Moss and its small, green leaves that taper from the base and finish with pointed tips.

This tiny rare moss was believed extinct in the UK, until its rediscovery in 2003. After recent ID training in the Cairngorms, volunteers, landowners & experts found Aspen Bristle-moss populations have doubled!🌿

Read the full story - https://loom.ly/V3tHfI8

📷Gus Routledge

#NationalMossDay

Fig. 1.Morphology of Phlebodium pseudoaureum. (A) A fertile frond of Phlebodium with attached sori. (B) An individual sporangium. (C–L) Representative images of gametophytes at different days after inoculation onto growth medium: (C) 20, (D) 31, (E) 86, (F–J) 111, (K) 133, and (L) 129. Arrows in (G–K) indicate meristem notches. The dashed circle in (L) highlights a cluster of multiple meristems and prothalli derived from a single gametophyte body. Scale bars are 5 mm in (A, L) and 100 μm in (B–K). The gametophyte shown in (I) developed independent new meristems (arrows); the one on the left is also shown in Supplementary Fig. S2C. The images shown in (C–E) and in (F–K) are representative of at least 40 and 12 independent gametophytes observed during the developmental stages, respectively.

🔬🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🔬

Continuous cell proliferation and de novo meristem formation drive clone-forming growth and prolonged longevity in epiphytic fern gametophytes - Wu et al.

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#PlantScience 🧪

Close-up of a Pickersgill's Reed Frog (Hyperolius pickersgilli), a small, bright green frog with smooth skin, sitting on a brown surface. The frog has large, round, dark eyes with a golden outline. Photo credit: Nick Evans.

🐸 More than 40% of amphibian species, like the Pickersgill's Reed Frog, are currently threatened, according to the IPBES #GlobalAssessment.

This highlights why global conservation efforts matter. Understanding and acting for our planet's biodiversity is more crucial than ever.

Oh, yes 🙂

🌲 Eastern Hemlock is a strikingly beautiful forest tree native to eastern North America. Sadly, it is susceptible to an insect from Japan, the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. Warmer winters allow the insect to survive so the outlook for this tree is poor🐛

📖Read the full article here: buff.ly/Jns3NrD

A water turtle turning towards us, opening its mouth wide on a small island in the ground, barely bigger than itself, in a pond. ©Aw

Beware of this dangerous animal! Roar! I photographed this turtle in a pond in Sofia. 😂
#photography #turtle #sofia #sony #bulgaria

These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi

nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...

3-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild Most lizards probably don’t survive devastating injuries. But a new study documents 122 cases of limb loss across 58 species – these exceptions shine a new light on natural selection.

@jblosos.bsky.social and I (and, it turns out, many other lizard biologists!) kept seeing wild lizards with missing legs/hands/feet.

How do they survive? Surely natural selection would weed out these unfortunate individuals?

Perhaps not...🦎🦵

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