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Jana Vamosi

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Plant Diversity Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, UCalgary, jvamosi.wordpress.com | she/her

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Elections Alberta @elections.ab.ca · 06/10/2026
2026 REFERENDUM - Register to vote Tomorrow is the last day you can register to vote online: ow.ly/LOG750ZUAIP If you miss this deadline, you will still be able to register at your voting place on advance voting or Election Day. Find out where at ow.ly/svBW50ZUAIO.
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 29/09/2026
The Calgary Chamber of Commerce & execs of major Alberta companies put out this open letter today in support of remaining in Canada: "Alberta’s success has not been built in isolation. It depends on our connections to the rest of Canada and the world..."
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Open letter: Alberta’s future is stronger in Canada - The Calgary Chamber
Open letter to Albertans on the October 19, 2026, referendum question on Alberta separating from Canada
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Bravo @mapquest.com…. for not bending the knee! #LakeOntario-Now&Forever🇨🇦
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Jana Vamosi @jvamosi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Scientists Warn Carney's Changes Will Bring 'Wilful Extinction' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/08... #conservation #biodiversity
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Scientists Warn Carney’s Changes Will Bring ‘Wilful Extinction’ | The Tyee
Proposed amendments to make building ports and pipelines easier could destroy entire species.
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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A lot has changed along Route 66 in the past 100 years including its flora 🌼 As we celebrate Route 66’s centennial, learn how the Garden’s scientists are saving some of the most threatened flora species along the Mother Road: buff.ly/FlgYeE1 #MOBOTGarden
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Jana Vamosi @jvamosi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Canada's Endangered Species Watchdog Is Strapped for Cash via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/06... #conservation #biodiversity
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Canada’s Endangered Species Watchdog Is Strapped for Cash | The Tyee
One commissioner said it’s like ‘providing a fire department with garden hoses for three-alarm fires.’
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Jana Vamosi @jvamosi.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Mitigating the threat of climate change on threatened species is tricky but Parks Canada and Beach Pinweed are offering insights #biodiversity #conservation #iamabotanist www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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How Parks Canada is working to protect rare coastal plant in N.B., P.E.I. | CBC News
Parks Canada is taking steps to protect a rare coastal plant, the Gulf of St. Lawrence beach pinweed, at Kouchibouguac and Prince Edward Island national parks.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We need your help. The Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Forest Service. 193 million acres of public land (bigger than Texas) is being handed over to political operatives and industry insiders.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Invasive grasses spreading after B.C. wildfires could fuel massive fires: UBC study Researchers say invasive grasses act as dry runways that spread flames at highway speed #BritishColumbia www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Invasive grasses spreading after B.C. wildfires could fuel massive fires: UBC study | CBC News
Invasive grasses are creeping into burnt landscapes years after wildfires and could fuel massive future fires that put people's lives at risk, a UBC researcher says.
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IUCN SSC Chameleon Specialist Group @iucnchameleons.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Help earn conservation funding for chameleons by voting to advance the Nguru Spiny Pygmy Chameleon (Rhampholeon acuminatus) through the Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Conservation Challenge starting March 16. www.indianapoliszoo.com/uproar-conse...
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Jeff Bowman @jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Now published: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 Open access in Facets, including open data www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....
A map showing the probability of movement for terrestrial animals across Canada and the USA.
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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · 13/02/2026
Well, this is interesting - results from this paper show #PES restored #forests are successfully sounding like mature forest again! Research in #CostaRica 🇨🇷 used #ecoacoustics at 119 sites 🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Large‐Scale Forest Restoration Accompanied by Biodiversity Recovery in Costa Rica's Redistributive Payment for Ecosystem Service Program
Transforming recorded sound into meaningful ecological insights requires carefully designed methodologies. This workflow diagram describes the steps of our analysis (contained within circles labeled ....
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 24/01/2026
We got you. ✊ Call scripts are updated to demand investigations, block funding for ICE, and impeach, like, everyone. Have at it. 🔥☎️🔥
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Jana Vamosi @jvamosi.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Locally extinct plant rediscovered in southern Ontario www.cp24.com/local/toront... #iamabotanist #conservation
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Locally extinct plant rediscovered in southern Ontario
A plant species that had been previously designated 'locally extinct' has been rediscovered in southern Ontario, according to the Canadian Wildlife Federation.
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Microsatellite, Hyb-Seq & morphological studies confirm the enigmatic #mustard #Boechera tiehmii as an intergeneric hybrid New #AJB research by Nikolai Hay, Michael Windham Kathleen Pryer doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #Brassicaceae
Range map of Boechera tiehmii (orange), B. lemmonii (yellow), and Nevada holmgrenii (red) created in QGIS 3.34.9 using a digital elevation model of the western US, western Great Basin Pleistocene lakes, and North American ice sheets from 12,000 years before present.
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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I just got an email from a former mentee telling me that one dinner conversation changed how he writes papers♥️ I told him: “just write the paper, get it out—the next one will be better, and the next even better.” Perfectionism is a trap (and a way to procrastinate...:))
comic of a happy person with a shitty 1st draft
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Jana Vamosi @jvamosi.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Canada Research Chair, Tier 2 in Sustainable Soil Science for Food and Water Security (Assistant or Associate Professor) University of Calgary universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?... #academicjobs
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Search Jobs - University Affairs
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
‘General strike if necessary’: Alberta unions declare intent to bring down UCP government #Alberta globalnews.ca/news/1150072...
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‘General strike if necessary’: Alberta unions declare intent to bring down UCP government | Globalnews.ca
Leaders from unions representing hundreds of thousands of Albertans stood in solidarity while saying they are exploring the process or triggering a general, province-wide strike.
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Jana Vamosi @jvamosi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto is looking for a Curator of Plants and Sustainability #academicjobs #iamabotanist royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...
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Curator of Plants & Sustainability - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page
Apply to Curator of Plants & Sustainability at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Jana Vamosi @jvamosi.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Translational Crop Genomics in Sustainable Agriculture in Calgary, AB, Canada #academicjob careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...
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Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Translational Crop Genomics in Sustainable Agriculture in Calgary, ...
Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Translational Crop Genomics in Sustainable Agriculture in Calgary, ...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
When heat and drought stress trees, the consequences can be tragic #ClimateChange www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
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When heat and drought stress trees, the consequences can be tragic
Constabel said he had seen branches of maple trees and oak trees falling off on the University of Victoria campus, even on a windless day.
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Jana Vamosi @jvamosi.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Canada #academicjob careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...
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Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Calgary, ...
Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Calgary, ...
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Jeannine Cavender-Bares @cavenderg9.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
What is spectral biology? We explain in this synthesis article on “Spectral biology across scales in changing environments” esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK www.spectralbiology.org
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Today (May 20) is World Bee Day, a moment to appreciate these small marvels. I am poking around iNaturalist to see the species people are finding in my city - www.inaturalist.org/observations.... Which species are keeping your landscape alive?
Screenshot of iNaturalist page, where search has been set to "bees" and "Oakland, CA" There is an underlying map, with observations marked by orange dots, and each one can be opened to see photograph and species information.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
They survived for millions of years but not much longer Collapsing bird numbers in North America Study using citizen data finds three-quarters of nearly 500 species in decline, with steepest trend in areas where they once thrived www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Collapsing bird numbers in North America prompt fears of ecological crisis – research
Study using citizen data finds three-quarters of nearly 500 species in decline, with steepest trend in areas where they once thrived
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Remember friends - the only poll that matters is at the voting booth. So get out and vote tomorrow if you haven’t already. #Cdnpoli
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Canadian news ⤵️ Crowds of people angry about the way U.S. President is running the country marched & rallied in scores of US cities Saturday in the biggest day of demonstrations yet #HandsOff #USA www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
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Protesters tee off against Trump and Musk in “Hands Off!” rallies across the U.S.
Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk rallied across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the administration’s actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other ...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Millions of people showed up around the US to protest all the illegal shit that the Trump administration is doing.
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Mass Protests Across the Country Show Resistance to Trump (Gift Article)
Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.
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Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhogan.ca · 03/04/2025
Step 1: candidate site ◀️ WE ARE HERE Step 2: personalize candidate site If you want to build a strong Canada - and volunteer, donate, or get a sign to help out our campaign in Calgary-Confederation - here's where you do it. Let's go. Confederation is worth fighting for. coreyhogan.liberal.ca
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Corey Hogan
Federal Liberal Candidate for Calgary Confederation
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ALT Fish and Wildlife Service @altfws.altgov.info · 03/04/2025
They are suited up and ready to go!
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Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhogan.ca · 01/04/2025
👋Some news I’m running for Mark Carney's Liberals in Calgary-Confederation. I live here, work here, raise my kids here. I want to offer representation that understands the economy and the public interest and be an Alberta voice standing up for Canada at a challenging time. 🧵(1/X)
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Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Are you interested in #forest microclimate, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning? 🌲🌳🌡️ 🗞️In our new study we show: Tree diversity increases #forest temperature buffering🗞️ doi.org/10.1111/ele.... /w @remybeugnon.bsky.social, @uni-freiburg.de, @unileipzig.bsky.social, @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social
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Tree Diversity Increases Forest Temperature Buffering via Enhancing Canopy Density and Structural Diversity
Making use of 6 years of microclimate measurements in a large-scale tree diversity experiment covering a species richness gradient ranging from 1 to 24 tree species, we demonstrate that tree species ....
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Everyone needs to get off their butts and vote, our country and our way of life depends on it. #VOTE #Canada
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment. youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc
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Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ poster
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
As much as i hate the very idea of it (and i suspect many canadians feel the same) we need to dramatically, massively, and rapidly increase our war fighting capabilities including domestic manufacturing of weapons, drones, vehicles. The threat is real. 🇨🇦 #elbowsup www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-north/...
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Does Canada need to prepare for a US attack?
Canada has begun thinking the unthinkable: how to defend against a US attack. It suddenly realizes — far too late – that the 2% GDP goal on defense spending is no longer aspirational but urgent. But w...
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Brooklyn Kennedy Scott @brookekennedyscott.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The capital switchboard isn’t working for everyone, use ☎️ www.5calls.org ☎️ to get through
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!
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Joe is my president @meomy179.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This 👇
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Dale Stevens II @dale2.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
My department is hiring! Looking for an Assistant Professor of Biology (Botanist/Plant Ecologist) in the Department of Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences at West Texas A&M University. If you have any questions feel free to DM me. tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WTAMU_...
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Assistant Professor of Biology
Job TitleAssistant Professor of Biology Agency West Texas A&M University Department Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences Proposed Minimum SalaryCommensurate Job LocationCanyon, Texas Job TypeF...
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Jesús Aguirre Gutiérrez @jeaggu.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Are tropical forests in the Americas changing as adaptation to ongoing climate change? Yes, they are! Are these changes enough to track their suitable climate? Not quite! Check out our paper in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... to see more of what our network has been working on!
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Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change
Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
if you haven’t watched this speech in full by French senator, Claude Malhuret, it’s very very much worth the eight minutes of your time to take it in: youtu.be/4ka9uYFebN0
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Speech by Claude Malhuret - March 5, 2025 - Fight the dictator backed by a traitor
YouTube video by Sembilani Sepuluhi
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Canadians in solidarity with Stand Up for Science. I signed. The assault on science in Canada under the conservative Harper regime was not as extreme as the MAGA one, but came from the same desire to prevent scientists from speaking truth to power. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Canadians in Solidarity with Stand Up for Science
By adding your name below, you are joining a growing movement of Canadians who believe in the power of science to inform policy and serve the public good. Your name will automatically be added to our ...
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Maybe my favorite #herbarium collection label. #Botany2003 in Mobile was a ton of fun, as was our #roadtrip. Thanks for driving, @reactionnorm.bsky.social. Wonder what Anne and Paul are up to. #Botany2025
Label describes the collectors pulling over to help 3 people in a broken down Cadillac named Anne, Paul, Margaret. It was Margaret’s 84th birthday.
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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Good to see an #herbarium study from @newphyt.bsky.social featured on NPR, with an assessment of what we stand to lose when herbaria are closed. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... www.kcur.org/news/2025-02... Includes quotes from @barbarathiers.bsky.social, Jordan Teischer, Lynn Clark.
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Plant libraries hold essential clues about climate change, but they're vulnerable to funding cuts
Scientists say amid climate change and biodiversity loss, the world’s herbaria could hold the keys to overcoming the crises in their folders of dried plant specimens. But their future is in question a...
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The Global Plant Council @globalplantgpc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Noticing the Treasure – The Orphan Crops with Pocket-Sized Machines Orphan #crops, as name implies, are often ignored. Yet, they have great potential to improve global food security. These underutilised #plants, receive minimal attention in modern #agriculture By Nisha Joy buff.ly/4iaj3mC
Image of dried black peppers. Credit: Pixabay
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Wilhelm Osterman @wilosterman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
📢 Viewpoint in New Phyt. on polyploid establishment! Key take-homes🧵 1. In contrast to earlier hypotheses that pollinators can help new polyploids establish, we suggest that pollinators mainly prevent polyploid establishment because outcrossing increases the strength of minority cytotype exclusion.
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