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Daijiang Li

@djli.bsky.social
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Ecologist. Assistant Professor at University of Arizona. Global change. Biodiversity, Phenology, Urban Ecology, Phylogeny. www.dlilab.com

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Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Systems Ecology, a new journal launched today, "run by researchers, for researchers, and is free to read and free to publish, with no article processing charges" systems-ecology.org/index.php/se...
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Systems Ecology
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“NSF’s biology directorate also appears headed for lower spending. Its solicitation calls for spending $280 million for research across its three “core” areas—foundations of life, living systems, & innovation/infrastructure—compared with $640 million spent in 2023.” NSF is openly flouting Congress
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Super excited that my NSF CAREER proposal was funded! We will work on urban biodiversity in the next 5 years. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
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Award Details - NSF Award Search
Find award details and explore award abstracts and publications.
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Interested in urban ecology and evolution? Check out this conference: www.grc.org/urban-evolut...
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Turning a new leaf: PhenoVision provides #LeafPhenology data at the global scale New in #AppsPlantSci by @er1ngrady.bsky.social, @djli.bsky.social, @rdinnager.bsky.social, et al doi.org/10.1002/aps3... @inaturalist.bsky.social @floridamuseum.bsky.social #botany #citizenscience #computervision
A three-panel horizontal flowchart describing the data flow for PhenoVision–Leaf. Panel one represents community-collected images and phenology annotations on iNaturalist, panel two shows these being fed into the PhenoVision–Leaf modal, and panel 3 shows a global map of new leaf phenology data and mentions that these data will be integrated into Phenobase. Credit: @er1ngrady.bsky.social
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....
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Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements
Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Evolving nature-based solutions for urban resilience. An important topic for urban sustainability, just published today, led by amazing @malberti.bsky.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Evolving nature-based solutions for urban resilience
Despite growing investments in nature-based solutions for urban resilience, their design often overlooks a fundamental biological process: evolution. Populations of organisms that sustain nature-based...
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Need to get a phylogeny? Try the R package `rtrees`. It has multiple taxon groups, and just got a speed up (~40x faster than `V.PhyloMaker2` for plants). github.com/daijiang/rtr...
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
🚨 Two major iDiv calls are now accepting applications! 🔹 iDiv Synthesis Centre Working Group Call 🔹 iDiv Fellowship Programme Call 🔗 More info, application criteria + deadlines: www.idiv.de
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iDiv - Integrative Biodiversity Research
The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) is a global leader in biodiversity science, dedicated to understanding the variety of life on Earth.
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Wondering why NIH and NSF aren't making new grants? We explain what's happening at OMB. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Analysis: Why the research money isn’t flowing from NSF and NIH
White House review of agency spending plans for this year is causing delays
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🚀 iDiv and @uni-jena.de are hiring! Join the Ecological Networks Lab as an IT Specialist (full-time, permanent). Work on lab automation, software dev, and cutting-edge research! 🌿💻 🗓️ Apply by 27 Mar 2026 📍 Leipzig (Germany) 👉 www.idiv.de/career/job-o... #JobAlert #ITJobs #Biodiversity #iDiv
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Job Openings
Explore exciting career opportunities at iDiv. Join a modern, international, and innovative research centre in the heart of Germany.
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Kristin Winchell @kmwinchell.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Excited to share our new review in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, coauthored w/allstar postdocs @vale-alaasam.bsky.social @annainthefield.bsky.social @anthonysnead.bsky.social Bridging island biogeography & evolutionary processes, we explore how eco-evo dynamics play out in the urban mosaic rdcu.be/e4tcj
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Eco-evolutionary dynamics shaping biodiversity in the urban mosaic
Nature Reviews Biodiversity - The urban mosaic is a complex assimilation of habitats, biotic and abiotic factors with eco-evolutionary influence on local and regional biodiversity. In this Review,...
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Curious what would they choose to proceed to the full proposal stage for the Simons Collaborations Grant in Ecology and Evolution; they said that there is about 3% of the teams will be invited #rejection
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
That’s what a great leader looks like.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 20/01/2026
🇨🇦PM Carney just schooled our cowardly European leaders at #Davos. This speech was clearly aimed at them: "We must actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be." "What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First it means naming reality..." (🧵1/6)
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 16/01/2026
New World Economic Forum Global Risks data provides a stark warning: While short-term crises dominate headlines, "Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse" jumps to the 2nd highest risk over the 10-year horizon. The long term is sooner than we think. Science-based policies via IPBES are crucial.🌍
This infographic from the World Economic Forum shows global risks ranked by severity over two time periods: 2-year (short term) and 10-year (long term). The title reads "Global risks ranked by severity" with the WEF logo in the top right corner.

The chart is divided into two columns, with risks color-coded into four categories: Environmental (green), Geopolitical (orange), Societal (red), and Technological (purple).

In the short term (2 years), the top risks are:

Geoeconomic confrontation

Misinformation and disinformation

Societal polarization

Extreme weather events

State-based armed conflict

In the long term (10 years), the ranking shows:

Extreme weather events

Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse

Critical change to Earth systems

Misinformation and disinformation

Adverse outcomes of AI technologies

Both columns continue to rank risks through position 10, with environmental concerns featuring more prominently in the long-term outlook. The source is cited as "World Economic Forum Global Risks Perception Survey 2025-2026."
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Theresa Crimmins @theresacrimmins.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Calling #NaturesNotebook participants! We have an opportunity for 18 observers to be interviewed by undergraduate students at UCLA this spring. The observer profiles will be featured on the @usa-npn.bsky.social website and in future newsletters. Interested? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Sign up to be interviewed by science writing students this spring
We have an opportunity for 18 Nature's Notebook observers to be interviewed by undergraduate students in a science writing course at UCLA titled "Science Writing for Public Engagement and Community Sc...
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Excellent excellent resource!
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Here, There and Everywhere: Widespread Non‐Native Plants in the World's Urban Ecosystems - Super fun project to collaborate on! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Here, There and Everywhere: Widespread Non‐Native Plants in the World's Urban Ecosystems
Aim To (a) produce a list of the most widespread naturalised non-native plant species across cities of the world; (b) explore whether cities on different continents are invaded by the same group of .....
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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The CAMBIUM NSF NRT is recruiting PhD students @uarizona.bsky.social! Fellowships for interdisciplinary training in biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, plant adaptation, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎
A logo for the CAMBIUM NRT featuring stylized rings.An organ pipe cactus in the moonlight with a starry sky above.
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Come to work with us! We are looking for neuroscientists with AI expertise. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Computational Neuroscience (RISE AI) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Who is going to #ESA2025? Would be great to meet people there!
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marina alberti @malberti.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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The effects of urbanization on species interactions - Nature Cities
Cities are renowned for catalyzing human interactions, but their effects on urban species are less clear. This Perspective argues for such a focus, and proposes a framework for studying interactions b...
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Really excited to see our perspective on how urbanization affects species interactions out in Nature Cities, hoping to inspire more research on this topic. Hard team work led by former postdoc Pablo Moreno-García. Feel free to discuss! rdcu.be/eyjBj www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Living Earth Collaborative @livingearthcollab.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
📢 Just out in Nature Cities: Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology with co-author LEC postdoc Dr. Carlen 🔗 rdcu.be/ewmqV #UrbanBiodiversity #Evolution @nature.com
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🌐🧪
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
In this review at Nature Cities, led by @ecarlen.bsky.social we explored how religion, politics and war drive urban wildlife evolution by shaping environmental conditions and selective pressures. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology - Nature Cities
Cities affect biological evolution, but traditionally researchers focus on the biophysical influence of urban environments. Instead, this Review explores how the social processes of religion, politics...
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Really cool work!
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
📖Published📖 Dinnage et al. describe PhenoVision, a new machine learning modelling pipeline utilizing iNaturalist occurrence records and associated field images of plants to enable scalability of phenology data via the automation of flower and fruit annotations 🌸 🍒 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/biapYFR
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Another day testing the limits of resilience. The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels. Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels. The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.
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‘This is bull——”: National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover
Dozens of National Science Foundation employees crowded the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday to protest the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, w...
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🌈 Celebrating diversity at #iDiv! This week —and every week— iDiv affirms that diversity in all its forms strengthens science, community, and collaboration. 🧬
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Resolution of Respect: Margaret Bryan Davis (1931–2024) - Hotchkiss - 2025 - The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Resolution of Respect: Margaret Bryan Davis (1931–2024)
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Patrick Weigelt @patrickweigelt.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Postdoc position in the lab of @biogeokreft.bsky.social for developing your own line of research in macroecology, biogeography, and functional or tropical ecology: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...
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Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Thinking about swinging by #Evol2025 next Monday. Who else will be there?
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Excited to share this paper led by @rdinnager.bsky.social. It is truly years of team effort to get to this point. We are currently finalizing the data, which will be included in PhenoBase and will be open early next year. @er1ngrady.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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PhenoVision: A framework for automating and delivering research‐ready plant phenology data from field images
Plant phenology plays a fundamental role in shaping ecosystems, and global change-induced shifts in phenology have cascading impacts on species interactions and ecosystem structure and function. D...
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It is so fun to record my first Youtube short video with others (keywords: phenology, community science) @er1ngrady.bsky.social @inaturalist.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/HnwBh...
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Asking scientists about their favorite season-related nature-finds
YouTube video by iNaturalist
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Offre de post-doctorat en écologie (H/F)
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Russell Dinnage @rdinnager.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New to Bluesky! I'm Russell Dinnage, developing AI foundation models for organismal biology @FIU (moving to @UAlberta July 2025) My mission: Create AI systems that understand life from molecules to ecosystems, bridging computational innovation with biological insight 🧬🤖 🧵1/3
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Just passed by a rattlesnake this morning! It was on a rock beside the trail and I was walking from its back to front, so no chance to see it! I was about 2 feet away from it while it rattled! Instantly jumped away from it. Scary and unforgettable experience!
A rattlesnake rest on the rocks near a hiking trail
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Establishment patterns of #saguaro #cactus at the microsite scale help explain saguaro regeneration & distributions in heterogenous, regional habitats New #AJB research by Peter Breslin, Charlotte Brown, Alberto Búrquez, Frank Reichenbacher et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience
a young saguaro cactus persisting on rocky ground, growing next to a cholla cactus.
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Congrats for all awardees! @smartenwinter.bsky.social
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It is so fun to record my first Youtube short video with others (keywords: phenology, community science) @er1ngrady.bsky.social @inaturalist.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/HnwBh...
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Asking scientists about their favorite season-related nature-finds
YouTube video by iNaturalist
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Congratulations for all the fellows!! @elenalitchman.bsky.social @fletcherecology.bsky.social @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social et al.
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
We are so excited to continue our work on urban biodiversity with an awesome team and the support from ESIIL @cu-esiil.bsky.social. @urban-sci.bsky.social esiil.org/working-groups
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Working Groups | ESIIL
What are working groups?Working groups are self-organized research teams focused on well-defined scientific questions that advance environmental data science. A single working group may have up to 15 ...
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Daijiang Li @djli.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Phenological mismatches - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Phenological mismatches
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
▶️3 exciting Postdoc positions in newly formed socio-ecological Forest Invasion Synthesis Centre in Prague◀️ 1️⃣ Plant #Invasions 2️⃣ Senior Researcher as Deputy Chief 3️⃣ Insect #Macroecology #Postdoc #postdocjob #academicjobs forestinvasion.cz/en
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HIVE project
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Theresa Crimmins @theresacrimmins.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Submit your #phenology research to a special issue of @springernature.com journal Discover Ecology: "Plant phenology in an era of rapid global change: new perspectives and frontiers" co-edited with @djli.bsky.social and Rob Guralnick!
QR code links to special issue information page
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USA National Phenology Network @usa-npn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Join us March 17-21 for Phenology Week, a celebration of all things #phenology! We'll have webinars, awards, daily challenges, observer stories, and more. See the full list of events and sign up: www.usanpn.org/news/article...
USA-NPN and Nature's Notebook logos, a tree, flower, butterfly, bee and bird.
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Marc Cadotte @urban-sci.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
And the meek shall inherit the Earth. The plant found in cities on all continents is... Erigeron canadensis (Canadian fleabane or horseweed). From the GUBIC database: 8K non-native species from 550 cities globally. bit.ly/3Fbj1wI. And the data available here: zenodo.org/records/1...
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