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This has a few effects, but one that might be important is water evaporates, cooling the wound. In a few seconds, the temperature drops by one and a half degrees celsius. This drop in temperature switches on cold-response genes, the same genes that get turned on by a frost.

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Botany One @botany.one · 21h

Why does a wound feel like winter? 🧵 Cut a leaf and the wound turns cold, and it turns out the plant is reading that chill as an instruction. botany.fyi/winterwound

A thermal image of a leaf. Two cuts on the plant show up as striking cold purple against the warm orange of the leaf.

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Botany One @botany.one · 25/08/2026

If you're near Perth WA, now is a good time to look for Kangaroo Paws. Anigozanthos manglesii is one of the most recorded plants near Perth on iNaturalist over the past two weeks. www.botany.one/hot-botany/?...

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Botany One @botany.one · 01/07/2026

I’ve done the draw and we have a winner. Congratulations to Garima Singh, whose name I seem to have misspelled in the draw. #sotwpf #kew

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Botany One @botany.one · 11/05/2026

Every plant dataset has a story behind it 🌿 Ana Paola Valladares Garcia's collecting short insights & anecdotes from people working with plant specimens for an upcoming Botany One focus issue on Digital Botany. If you’d like to participate, it's only 3 minutes, the survey is here👇 lnkd.in/gUxpWH57

Botany One graphic asking "What gets lost between the field and the database?" Left side shows a pressed plant specimen with handwritten field notes (altitude, habitat, scent, local name, coordinates). Right side shows the same plant reduced to a sparse digital specimen record on a laptop screen. Call to action: take a 2–3 minute survey for an upcoming special issue on Digital Botany. Aimed at collectors, taxonomists, herbarium staff, and researchers.

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Botany One @botany.one · 07/01/2026

At the ‘Flora in Focus’ conference. Gail Preston has just set a very high bar for the other speakers with a fantastic talk on hyperacculmulators.

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Botany One @botany.one · 02/12/2025

Autophagy Unveiled: The Dagdas Group is shining a light on cellular recycling Autophagy is like a cell's version of housekeeping, tidying up old or damaged components to keep the cell running smoothly. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/detail/n...

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Botany One @botany.one · 01/12/2025

Central America’s forests are crucial for migrating birds Migratory birds are heading south to warmer climes and more abundant food. But until recently, scientists didn’t have a good understanding of exactly where they went. news.mongabay.com/short-articl... #Forests

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Botany One @botany.one · 01/12/2025

Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #GlobalHeating

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Botany One @botany.one · 01/12/2025

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. english.elpais.com/science-tech...

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Botany One @botany.one · 01/12/2025

Vanishing experts, vanishing species: The taxonomy crisis Training a new generation of taxonomists is urgent and new research maps where help is most needed to close the skill gaps. www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

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Botany One @botany.one · 04/11/2025

🌻🪖 War is turning Ukraine’s fertiliser problem into a catastrophe 🧪 Long-term declines in nutrients, and soil damage, have been turbo-charged by the Russian invasion. But a new plan may help restore some of the world’s most fertile soils. #Botany #PlantScience 🧵 (1/15)

A field of sunflowers, below a blue sky. The horizontal halving between the blue sky and the golden sunflower heads makes it look like an allusion to the Ukrainian flag.

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Botany One @botany.one · 22/10/2025

Ready for the Plant Science Wales meeting, this morning.

Alun attempting to look human in the morning.

A view of an orange fungus, across grass up to a tree.

An overripe “Pink Ballerina“ fungus looking very frilly.

A red fungus lifting the rim of its cap to reveal yellow gills.

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Botany One @botany.one · 13/10/2025

Everyone agrees we should save pollinators, but do we only consider the cute ones? Andrés Pereira-Guaqueta on a pollinator for Balanophora tobiracola. botany.one/2025/10/ecce... #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 Image by zachcheng / iNaturalist CC-BY-NC www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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Botany One @botany.one · 17/09/2025

"Look for something that you are really passionate about in Botany, what makes your heart beat faster;" @glauceae.bsky.social shares her thoughts in Botany One. wp.me/pdRZhH-mpe #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

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Botany One @botany.one · 12/09/2025

Invasive Species Outperform Natives by Flowering Out of Season A new study reveals how off-season flowering helps invasive plants outcompete native species. wp.me/pdRZhH-msy

Red flowers, but are they in or out of season?

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Botany One @botany.one · 10/09/2025

Ramiro Aguilar: “Plants Are the Most Incredible Organisms” "Many new discoveries in plant science are still waiting to be revealed to the naked eye. Patience and keen observation are invaluable skills for any plant science student." wp.me/pdRZhH-mgT #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

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Botany One @botany.one · 09/09/2025

How the Tlahuica-Pjiekakjoo Keep Their Mycological Heritage Thriving A decade-long collaboration reveals how an endangered Indigenous group holds unparalleled knowledge of wild fungi, and how they’re passing it on to future generations. wp.me/pdRZhH-mrH #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

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Botany One @botany.one · 08/09/2025

Parasitic plants help build lignin deposits in host tissues Their unknown function in developing hausteria remains to be uncovered. botany.one/2025/09/para... #Botany #PlantScience

A hand holding a stem of yellow rattle with its distinctive flowers.

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Botany One @botany.one · 04/09/2025

"Diversity of perspectives and knowledge stimulates creativity, and collaborative work enables projects that would be impossible to achieve alone." - Dr. Cecilia Zumajo-Cardona. botany.one/2025/09/ceci... #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

Photo of Dr. Cecilia Zumajo-Cardona smiling at the camera.

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Botany One @botany.one · 29/08/2025

Seedling emergence is catastrophically affected by depth of volcanic ash 5 cm of volcanic ash leads to the loss of seedling emergence on the volcanic island of La Palma, likely affecting succession for decades after a recent eruption. botany.fyi/qmad4t #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

A pine cone and a tiny seedling on otherwise barren volcanic ash.

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Botany One @botany.one · 15/08/2025

Analysing the calcium isotope ratios in the teeth of three herbivorous dinosaurs found together has revealed how dinosaurs, all after plants to eat, could exist side-by-side through niche separation. wp.me/pdRZhH-mmI #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

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Botany One @botany.one · 14/08/2025

Gunfire doesn't stop Botany. Researchers uncovered over 4,600 previously unrecognised specimens collected during the First World War, shedding light on the resilience of scientific curiosity and the importance of documenting biodiversity, even in conflict. wp.me/pdRZhH-mmv #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

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Botany One @botany.one · 13/08/2025

Liedson Carneiro: "I believe it’s essential to build a strong foundation in natural history. Observing organisms in their environments and understanding their traits and behaviors sharpens your intuition and helps you ask meaningful questions." wp.me/pdRZhH-mjA #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

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Botany One @botany.one · 09/08/2025

🍫 Chocolate fights climate change with gene editing 🧪 botany.fyi/ps7vcy Food Dive reports on an attempt by Mars to keep chocolate affordable and make your M&Ms CRISPR. #Botany #PlantScience 🧵 (1/10)

Orange and yellow cacao pods (Theobroma cacao) growing directly from the trunk of a tree, showing the natural cauliflory growth pattern. The ribbed, football-shaped pods display various stages of ripeness, with some showing dark spots indicating potential disease pressure. Lichen-covered bark and tropical foliage visible in background.

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Botany One @botany.one · 08/08/2025

When Pollinators and Flowers Have Timing Issues Some plants don’t flower at the same time as their pollinators are most active, which helps maintain a variety of flower shapes and sizes by changing which traits are most useful at different times. botany.one/2025/08/when... #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

A young man in a sun hat and fieldwork gear stands, smiling, in a field of flowers.

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Botany One @botany.one · 08/08/2025

🌱How Canada plans to plug biodiversity data gaps with CAN BON 🧪 doi.org/pz3z Gonzalez and colleagues introduce CAN BON, the Canadian Biodiversity Observation Network, a new project to track changes across the nation. #Botany #PlantScience 🧵 (1/8)

Close-up view through a magnifying glass of a sugar maple (Acer saccharum) winter bud, showing the detailed brown scales and pointed tip structure against a blurred background of hands holding the magnifying glass.

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Botany One @botany.one · 08/08/2025

"When you need to do something new, don’t waste time trying to reinvent the wheel. Ask someone who already knows how to do it. Learning from experienced peers or mentors will save you time, frustration, and help you grow faster as a scientist." botany.one/2025/08/juli...

Dr. Ishida taking a selfie during fieldwork at Serra do Cipó in Minas Gerais, Brazil, smiling at the camera while wearing sunglasses on her head and a white shirt, surrounded by the natural cerrado vegetation where she conducts her parasitic plant research.

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Botany One @botany.one · 07/08/2025

🌳🦠 Tree-Microbe relationships run deep 🧪 doi.org/pz4k Inside a tree can live up to one trillion beings. But seeing the bacteria hidden in its woody tissue takes a lot of work. #Botany #PlantScience 🧵 (1/7)

A metal spout or tap inserted into the deeply furrowed bark of a sugar maple tree (Acer saccharum) for syrup collection, with a white collection bucket positioned below to catch the flowing sap.

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Botany One @botany.one · 06/08/2025

"We resubmitted the paper elsewhere, and for the next 10 years, it was the most cited publication of my career." Dr Juliane Ishida on the importance of perseverance in publishing papers botany.one/2025/08/juli... #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

Dr. Juliane Ishida, a smiling woman with long dark hair wearing a black sleeveless top and pearl earrings, photographed against a lush green backdrop of leafy plants with small pink flowers.

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Botany One @botany.one · 06/08/2025

Butterworts catch prey with their leaves. Each leaf is covered with microscopic glands that produce sticky mucilage to catch prey, plus digestive enzymes to break them down. So the prey were left on the leaves, when they were examined under a microscope. Or were they? The authors write: (5/10)

Close-up view of Pinguicula crenatiloba leaves showing the carnivorous plant in action. The bright green, spoon-shaped leaves have a glossy, wet appearance from the sticky mucilage coating their surface. A small dark insect is trapped on one of the central leaves, demonstrating the plant's prey capture mechanism. The leaves' surfaces are dotted with tiny glandular structures that produce the adhesive secretions and digestive enzymes. Additional leaves are visible in the background, all growing from the soil in the plant's characteristic compact rosette formation.

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Botany One @botany.one · 06/08/2025

🌱 A tiny carnivore with a voracious appetite 🧪 doi.org/pzxf A tiny butterwort found in Mexico has surprised scientists with its ability to catch prey. It has to be efficient as it has only a brief time to get everything prepared for the next generation. #Botany #PlantScience 🧵 (1/10)

A tiny Pinguicula crenatiloba butterwort plant held in a human palm, showing the remarkable scale difference. The carnivorous plant forms a compact rosette of pale green, spoon-shaped leaves less than a centimetre across, with moss and debris attached. A single delicate white flower blooms on a thin, hairy stem rising above the leaves. The plant appears minuscule against the backdrop of the person's hand.

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Botany One @botany.one · 05/08/2025

🌱 Saving orchids in Serbia 🧪 doi.org/pzvv Orchids are one of the most successful plant families on the planet, with over 20,000 species, but many of those species are endangered. For the orchids of Serbia, help is at hand. #Botany #PlantScience 🧵 (1/7)

Close-up photograph of a terrestrial orchid flower with pale pink and white petals. The flower has a distinctive anthropomorphic shape with an upper hood-like structure and lower petals that extend outward like arms and legs, with long trailing spurs. The labellum (lower lip) is white with purple spotting and striping. The flower grows on a thick green stem surrounded by blurred forest vegetation in soft natural lighting.

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Botany One @botany.one · 03/08/2025

Advances in understanding seed formation could be crucial for future food security. Dr. Duarte Figueiredo explains why studying the molecular mechanisms behind reproduction matters and shares advice for aspiring botanists. wp.me/pdRZhH-mgq #Botany #PlantScience

A purple water lily flower in full bloom with pointed petals surrounding a bright yellow center dotted with purple stamens. The flower floats on water surrounded by large green lily pads in soft focus in the background.

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Botany One @botany.one · 02/08/2025

“Flower-rich dykes attract many more bees than, for example, flower strips in agricultural areas. And especially more endangered species. About ten percent of the bees we found are on the red list, such as the Knautia bee, the red cuckoo bumblebee, the meadow bee and the variegated wasp bee.” (6/10)

A fuzzy bumblebee with black body and orange-brown bands forages on a purple thistle flower. The bee is covered in pale pollen as it feeds on the spiky, globe-shaped bloom, with more thistle buds and flowers visible in the soft-focused background.

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Botany One @botany.one · 02/08/2025

🌱 River dykes are "insect highways" for wild bees 🧪 doi.org/pzns Dykes are a lifeline for bees. Researchers found nearly half of all Dutch bee species live on river dykes, with 10% being endangered red-listed species. #Botany #PlantScience 🧵 (1/10)

Traditional Dutch windmill beside a water channel in green countryside. The stone windmill with wooden blades sits on grassy embankments lined with lush vegetation and wildflowers.

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Botany One @botany.one · 01/08/2025

From initially finding botany classes boring to leading cutting-edge seed development research at the Max Planck Institute. Dr. Duarte Figueiredo's journey shows how the right mentors can transform your relationship with plant science. wp.me/pdRZhH-mgq #Botany #PlantScience

A researcher wearing glasses and a gray t-shirt carefully tends to young tomato plants in a greenhouse laboratory. He is examining or adjusting a plant with small yellow flowers while standing at a work bench with organized plant specimens in containers. The modern greenhouse facility has glass walls and metal framework visible in the background.

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Botany One @botany.one · 31/07/2025

🌱 Ancient liverwort gene unlocks secret of plant cloning 🧪 doi.org/pzg3 Scientists cracked how plants reproduce without sex. The finding could improve crops and on Earth and beyond. But the key to this discovery comes from a plant that annoys many gardeners. #Botany #PlantScience (1/7)

Scanning electron microscope image showing an abnormal "shot glass-shaped" structure from a liverwort mutant lacking the SHOT GLASS gene. The structure has tall, narrow walls forming a deep cup with an empty interior, contrasting with the normal shallow gemma cups visible as small circular openings scattered across the surrounding plant surface.

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Botany One @botany.one · 30/07/2025

Meet Dr. Duarte Figueiredo, a Portuguese developmental biologist investigating one of botany's most fundamental questions: how do plants initiate seed formation? His team studies why some species require pollen for reproduction while others don't. wp.me/pdRZhH-mgq #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

A researcher with curly dark hair and beard wearing a gray t-shirt examines a specimen through a professional microscope in a laboratory setting. He is adjusting the microscope stage with one hand while looking through the eyepiece.

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Botany One @botany.one · 29/07/2025

Amaranthus retroflexus, and Amaranthus tricolor, are annuals, so having the parent decompose efficiently will help any seeds in the area grow more effectively. These are likely to be the seeds of the parent. If something interferes with your decomposition, your offspring may have a problem. (4/10)

Dense cluster of Amaranthus retroflexus plants displaying bright green, oval to diamond-shaped leaves with prominent light-colored veining and slightly fuzzy texture. The plants show characteristic tall, thick, pale green flower spikes that appear densely packed and somewhat rough or bumpy in texture, rising above the leafy stems. Multiple robust plants grow together in disturbed urban roadside vegetation, with cars, a Raiffeisenbank, and KFC visible in the background.

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Botany One @botany.one · 29/07/2025

📝 Heavy Metal aids a plant invasion 🧵 doi.org/px4k ($) New research shows how an invasive plant in China is using copper and lead pollution to oust its native neighbours. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)

Amaranthus tricolor plant displaying its characteristic colorful foliage with vibrant red, yellow, and green variegated leaves that have a smooth, glossy texture and oval shape with pointed tips. The plant shows bright magenta-red centers transitioning to golden-yellow edges with green margins, creating a striking ornamental appearance. The leaves appear tender and succulent-like compared to typical weedy amaranths. The plant grows upright with multiple branching stems in a garden setting alongside orange marigold flowers and other ornamental plants.

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Botany One @botany.one · 27/07/2025

The team set up automated cameras in the forest in Mont Mégantic National Park. Daily photos allowed them to watch the sprouting of two common spring understorey plants, Trillium erectum (Red Trillium) and Erythronium americanum (Trout Lily) and watch for leaf-out from the trees above. (5/9)

The image shows a human hand gently holding a red trillium flower with three distinctive deep burgundy-red petals that display prominent leaf-like venation patterns. The flower has six white stamens with cream-colored anthers radiating from the center. Three green sepals are visible between the petals. The flower emerges from what appears to be the characteristic three-leaved whorl of the trillium plant. The background shows bright green forest understory vegetation, including what appear to be other woodland plants. The hand provides scale, showing this is a moderately-sized wildflower typical of spring ephemeral plants in deciduous forests.

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Botany One @botany.one · 27/07/2025

📝 The plants that photosynthesise to a deadline 🧵 doi.org/pxnj In the forest understorey, Spring fires the starting gun on a race to catch sunlight before the forest canopy fills. But changing climates means different plants now start at different times. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief

The image shows two bright yellow lily-like flowers with six backward-curving petals each. The flowers have distinctive red-orange stamens and pistils protruding from their centers. They emerge from mottled green leaves with brown spots characteristic of trout lilies. The plants are growing among fallen brown leaves on what appears to be a woodland floor, with a blurred forest background.

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Botany One @botany.one · 26/07/2025

The microrefugia were found on south-facing slopes, away from the summer sun. These sites were 6°C cooler and more humid than the more exposed areas. Look up and the difference was visible. The trees at the coolest site had an average canopy dieback of 15% compared to the 81% at the hottest. (6/10)

A stand of Red Stringybarks, not looking very red but looking very stringy, in the Clare Valley.

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Botany One @botany.one · 26/07/2025

If you think that it’s odd that Red Stringybarks are endangered, when you look around where you live, then that’s probably because you live over 500 km away from the Clare Valley. The trees have no relatives living close, and have experienced around 40% tree death from drought. (4/10)

A map of south eastern Australia with dots indicating Red Stringybark sites all over an arc from Victoria, through the ACT up NSW to the Queensland border, like a rash. And a lone red pimple on its own north of Adelaide.

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Botany One @botany.one · 26/07/2025

📝 500km from friends, these trees are running out of places to hide from climate change 🧵 doi.org/pxck How can isolated trees survive rising heat? Botanists have been looking for microrefugia, small locations with favourable conditions for stressed plants. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)

Bark peeling from the trunk of a red stringybark, with the red colour revealed underneath.

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Botany One @botany.one · 25/07/2025

Ever wonder why some flowers have tiny petals while others are huge and showy? New research analyzing 10,000+ Chinese plant species reveals how altitude, temperature, and rainfall shape petal size. wp.me/pdRZhH-mbJ #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

Close-up of white plum blossoms with five rounded petals and prominent yellow stamens. The flowers show medium-sized petals with red markings at the base.

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Botany One @botany.one · 24/07/2025

"Don’t give up. It’s tough, even when conditions aren’t the most challenging. Facing the job market and getting published can be hard. For every success we achieve, there are many failures." Dr. Ana Bedoya from Colombian biology student to NY Botanical Garden curator. wp.me/pdRZhH-mf6 #Botany 🧪

Dr. Ana Bedoya holding vegetation in front of a raging river.

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Botany One @botany.one · 22/07/2025

80% of the birds recorded as present were not seen in the survey. Instead they were identified from their birdsong. What the survey found was that Colombia still has incredible biodiversity; mountain forests ≠ lowland forests ≠ páramo grasslands. Each has entirely different species. (5/11)

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Botany One @botany.one · 22/07/2025

📝 Silence of the Llanos 🧵 doi.org/pw82 Botanists are hearing an alarm call alerting the world to habitat loss in Colombia, but it’s not a noise that they hear, it’s silence caused by vanishing bird calls marking lost ecosystems. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/11)

Two researchers peer into the forests of Colombia through binoculars.

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