None. The focus is field identification of sphagnum I assume no prior knowledge. Though it's pitched toward Swedish ecological survey standards.
Mo data mo problems. Interesting paper academic.oup.com/bioinformati... that suggests solutions.
Fält kurs för de ska lära #vitmossor #sphagnum I uppsala. #naturvärdesinventering @svs-plant-geog.bsky.social @skyddaskogen.bsky.social greensway.se/vitmosskurs/
If it had been european populations that had crashed would the gaps between managed woodland have filled in with poorer woodland. This resulting in the landscape being analysed by the consequent culture 5 hundred years later as forest Gardens?
European forests in the 14th/15th C were a managed resource. The collapse of indigenous pops were due to imported disease ( followed by heinous crimes).
If Europe had been visited by the Americas as opposed to the way it happend would our woodlands have been seen as forest Gardens? www.science.org/content/arti...
Where's the money going? Where do people put that much? Like materials don't cost that much they must be paid so where does it end up? Yachts?
Yes it's a shame so much of the last 20 years life is on that platform.
@ansta-yang.bsky.social hello annie
Up to 37,000 children may have to leave private schools because their parents say they can't afford VAT on fees. And four million kids go to school hungry because their parents can't afford breakfast.
In other words: no, you can't "easily tell when someone has used an LLM"; and if you think you can enforce a ban with detectors, you're doing damage.
Basically every ecology paper: "We found a strong link between X and Y at this site, so this is how the world works." The plot.
59% of Local Authorities haven't met existing biodiversity duties under the #EnvironmentAct
No wonder when only 1/4 have an ecologist
For Government's planning reforms to work for wildlife & development, authorities need the resources to plan for nature
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
I understand why a term is used but their "thuggishness" is a direct consequence of inaction or action. Eg ceasing mananagement and/or increases in nitrogen load. Thug feels about like scapegoating
Better off cracking down on housing as investments
Here's a talk fia bengtsson and I did 4 years ago on Sphagnum ecology. www.youtube.com/live/RweC-99... in English and swedish
Lawful evil?
Bryology's Back! Baby!
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school:
I'm Charles. I have a brain but refuse to use it.
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social mys son wonders if squid can be tamed?
Ah yes the 3rd paper from my PhD. Important traits in Sphagnum aren't bounded by a single shoot. We've known for a while that they are more than the sum of their parts. So I measured both shoot and canopy across the border of competitive species in Sweden.
Variations in water economy traits in two #Sphagnum species across their distribution boundaries
New #AJB research by Charles Campbell, Gustaf Granath & Håkan Rydin
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #ecology
Don't like the owner of Tesla, don't like personalised numberplates. However sometimes two wrongs make a right
Amazing new open science dataset just released:
Extensive plant trait, community, and function data collected by the Plant Functional Traits Course in the Puna grasslands of Peru. All of the course participants are co-authors, including the students! 🧪🌾
doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-02980-3
A tweet roll I did on #Sphagnum and water from other place threadreaderapp.com/thread/12750...
@wordsandtheworld.bsky.social
How does taxonomy work if we could travel to multiple planets like in star wars? Assuming panspermia is NOT or if it were TRuE? If a planet was an evolutionary reflection of what happend on earth would we call hairy milk producers mammals or would we need a new name?
It’s only a murder of crows if there’s probable caws
I'm a C student with a PhD what you get in tests and exams in school does not determine what you are capable of.