Side-view of the human eye, viewed approximately 90 degrees temporal, illustrating how the iris and pupil appear rotated towards the viewer due to the optical properties of the cornea, by Paul Savage Plant blindness...
Category - Plants & People
Nigel Chaffey
Do we need evidence in books about plants?
Without a source are facts really facts, or just factoids?
Professor Rowan Sage is heading for Annals of Botany
Pat Heslop-Harrison The Annals of Botany Company has at last concluded its long drawn-out search for a successor to Pat Heslop-Harrison, who will retire from the Chief Editorship of Annals of Botany at the end of the...
Rod Hunt
Traditional Ecological Knowledge: challenges and opportunities
On three out of four days of the Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) virtual conference earlier in August, there were workshops or symposiums about working with indigenous communities. Traditional Ecological Knowledge...
Juniper Kiss
AoBP ECOS Awardee Elise Gornish
"The main reason more scientists don’t communicate their science effectively is a lack of formal training"
William Salter
AoBP ECOS 2020 Awardee Chris Muir
"Open science is one of the best tools we have to change scientific culture by incentivizing good scientific practice."
Three words to describe #ESA2020: Ecology, students and inspiration
Juniper Kiss reports on the annual meeting of the Ecology Society of America.
The 2020 AoBP ECOS Awards
Elise Gornish, Chris Muir and Larry York are the 2020 recipents of the AoBP ECOS Awards
Seaweeds, the “food factories” from the sea
Unlocking the secrets of seaweed could have major benefits for human health.
Marco Garcia-Vaquero
View from the sky sees new hope for restoring degraded forests
Degraded tropical forests are not lost causes. Restoration could help capture carbon and aid ecosystem recovery.
Alun Salt
Finding Meaning in the Undergraduate Research Experience
Meet them where they’re at, and show them they’re making an impact, say speakers.
Erin Zimmerman
Symposium looks at new frontiers in collecting & collections
Collections may be poised for a “renaissance of biodiversity specimen collecting.”
Botany 2020: More Botany Than You can Shake a (Virtual) Stick At
The shift to an online conference has brought some benefits to Botany 2020.
