@markhughesis.bsky.social
Taxonomy Research Leader (Southeast Asia) at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh https://www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/staff/tropical-diversity/dr-mark-hughes/
Interested in Botanical spirals but couldn’t attend my lecture @linneansociety.bsky.social
Don’t worry you can now watch it on YouTube! 👇👇👇
The talk includes an overview of our recent paper on fern fiddleheads @currentbiology.bsky.social
youtu.be/WLHDnjwcPlc?...
AI 10 day forecasts massively outperform numerical prediction
deepmind.google/discover/blo...
"Despite harboring around one-third of the world’s fern species, less than 6% of Southeast Asian ferns have been DNA-sequenced" -- here's our response!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
patial and taxonomic coverage of terrestrial plant occurrence data. Georeferenced plant observations, as illustrated by observation dates in Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF; the largest biodiversity informatics infrastructure), have increased exponentially over the past 200 years (panels a, b), though the number of species recorded in these databases is reaching saturation (panel c). By integrating additional data sources compiled by Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN; i.e., non-GBIF sources comprising ~15 million records; panel d), the georeferenced plant observations in GBIF can be expanded by an additional ~4 million spatially unique records (panel e) and ~20,000 species (panel f). Still, the gaps in plant distributions warrant our attention: areas in Russia, central Asia, and northern Africa (red colour in panel g) are missing publicly available occurrences. The grey colour in panel (g) represents the presence of plant data, and the black colour represents ice-covered areas
The biodiversity data deluge is here - the equivalent of #MooresLaw but for biodiversity data? "we estimated that the total number of plant distribution records doubles every 17 years and the number of spatially unique records doubles every 21 years." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🌎🧪🦋🦫
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Trees in an upland valley in Scotland, UK
I am offering a PhD opportunity at University of Edinburgh as part of the E5 DTP. CASE partner: Forest Research
On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Application deadline: 6th Jan. Please share with your network.
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...
A large triptych of a palm tree, Sabal mexicana, in watercolour
This beautiful triptych of Sabal mexicana has taken over from the titan arum in the foyer of the botanics recently. Wonderful to see this on the way to ones office 😍
www.rbge.org.uk/news/article...
stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/37173
Houseplants as Warhammer 40k units:
HQ: begonias
Troops: pothos
Elite: Philodendron
Fast attack: calathea
Heavy support: monstera delicosia.
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