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Mónica Carvalho

@moccada.bsky.social

Botanist. Paleobiologist. Wanderer. Assistant Curator at the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan. All views are my own

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Schematic diagram showing the major axes of tree crown architecture

Schematic diagram showing the major axes of tree crown architecture

So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com ‬🧪🌐

Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brief thread of what we found 🧵

27.05.2025 10:31 — 👍 145    🔁 63    💬 5    📌 3
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The supervisor is in today

08.05.2025 15:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Our monthly Friends of the UMMP meeting is this Friday. We have a special guest speaker from Ohio State that will talk about Mississippian crinoids, so I'm pulling together a few from my collection to show at the meeting.

02.04.2025 20:14 — 👍 55    🔁 8    💬 6    📌 2
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Every day should be 'take your pet to work day'

18.02.2025 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Paper title: "Holey Aroids: Circular trenching behavior by a leaf beetle in Vietnam"

Paper title: "Holey Aroids: Circular trenching behavior by a leaf beetle in Vietnam"

Photos of the beetles at work, showing both a VERY perforated Colocasia leaf and the underside of a "trenched" area showing nasty-tasting plant goo dripping out of the leaf (away from the hungry beetle)

Photos of the beetles at work, showing both a VERY perforated Colocasia leaf and the underside of a "trenched" area showing nasty-tasting plant goo dripping out of the leaf (away from the hungry beetle)

CC @franzanth.bsky.social here we go, this chrysomelid is INDEED "trenching" the leaf tissue to cut off the flow of gross-tasting sap/latex to its desired feeding area...

18.02.2025 14:41 — 👍 88    🔁 20    💬 5    📌 7
The Origin and Evolution of Botanical Spirals | Sandy Hetherington
YouTube video by Linnean Society The Origin and Evolution of Botanical Spirals | Sandy Hetherington

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?...

20.12.2024 14:09 — 👍 62    🔁 28    💬 0    📌 1

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