Image (Plagiochila liverwort. © Benny Rice, alt text: The frond like leaf of a liverwort on a black background)
Have you ever heard of bryophytes? 🧪
Usually known as mosses, these minute wonders are involved in everything from soil formation to flash flood prevention 🌍
One Malagasy scientist, Dr Lova Marline, has made it her mission to raise appreciation for our mossy friends 👇
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A glimpse into the past 😉
A closer look at a capsule from an 85 year old specimen perfectly preserved.
Collector: G Harley
Year: 1940
Country: Liberia
#herbarium #botany
#bryophyte #science #research
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Postdoc in Harvard OEB -- Hopkins lab. systematics, speciation, hybridization in flowering plants. Natural history via community science. Previously Eaton lab at Columbia. Birder, Arkansan, he/him
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International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) - Promoting studies in evolution, classification, and naming of algae, fungi, and plants. 🪸🍄🌱🔍🔬💻📚
Historian of science, collecting, plants + natural history museums // Professor at Yale // PhD in History of Science from Princeton // Contr. Ed. at Public Domain Review
Associate Professor, Texas Tech University
Director, E.L. Reed Herbarium
bryophyte evolution, plant phylogenomics
mossmatters.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-1958-6334
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Interdisciplinary research on land systems, conservation, and restoration
Assistant Professor for Resilient Landscapes at Wageningen University and Research 🇳🇱
www.martin.science
Diamond open access journal publishing about ecology and evolution of all plant groups, and with a particular interest in (sub)tropical African biodiversity. https://plecevo.eu/
International journal publishing novel and rigorous research in all areas of plant science, managed by the Annals of Botany Company, a not-for-profit educational charity.
Prof of Ecosystem Science at Oxford, working on #naturerecovery, especially loves tropical ecosystems; Director Leverhulme Centre for @NatureRecovery.bsky.social; Trustee @nhm-london@bsky.social; ex-President of @BritishEcolSoc.bsky.social ; CBE FRS
New England Botanical Society is a nonprofit promoting the study of North American plants, especially the flora of New England and adjacent regions. https://www.rhodora.org/
Ecosystem ecologist researches nitrogen cycling in pristine ecosystems. Focus on moss-cyanobacteria associations and nitrogen fixation.
Panamanian, biologist, nature, symbiosis, bryophytes, hornworts, cycads, lichens, Bacurú Drõa, https://villarreal-lab.ibis.ulaval.ca, https://www.mcgill.ca/potvin-lab/bacuru
Plant biologist at UCSD (how auxin regulates transcription across land plants, from receptors to pol II and the steps in between). Mostly, moss⬌Arabidopsis. Grew up in Minnesota, attended/worked at UMinn, UO, UM, and IU.
A fern and hornwort enthusiast at Boyce Thompson Institute and Cornell. I study evolutionary genomics of seed-free plants.
www.fernway.net
The Botanical Society of America mission is to inspire and promote an inclusive global community committed to advancing fundamental knowledge and innovation in the botanical sciences for the benefit of people and the environment.
PhD researching honey bee - wild pollinator competition @bristolbiosci Memmott lab. Plant-pollinator interactions, networks, community ecology. Working in South Africa and Scotland.
Assoc Prof @ UC Berkeley // NatGeo Explorer
Spectral ecology // Plant traits // Biodiversity // Ecosystem functions // Climate change resilience // Remote sensing
Plant systematist, herbarium director, naturalist, in the Chicago suburbs; posts reflect my views, not my employer's.
Just out: Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo236998258.html
