Tag: Conservation
Hallowe’en and the Monster Plant
This week, the biggest flower on the planet, also known as the “Queen of all Parasitic Plants”, has come to Oxford – but not in the way you would might expect.
The Plant Messiah by Carlos Magdalena
If you’re looking to explain to someone how botany can be exciting, then The Plant Messiah by Carlos Magdalena is an excellent place to start.
3 Ways New Neighbours Can Interfere With Your Sex Life
With climate change, some upland areas will be colonised by plants that had previously stayed in hotter lowland regions – and that could be bad for upland wildflowers.
3 Ways to Tackle Plant Blindness
Plant conservation gets a fraction of the funding that animal conservation gets. A recent paper in Conservation Biology blames Plant Blindness. Is there a solution?
Ghost orchid symbiotic seed germination
Population genetic patterns in an endangered island perennial
Transatlantic invasion routes and adaptive potential of the invasive Frangula alnus
Alien plant invasions and native plant extinctions: a six-threshold framework
Strengthening the taxonomic backbone of Thai orchid conservation
Temporal dynamics of Corsican orchid communities
High levels of genetic diversity and population structure in an endemic and rare species: Implications for conservation
SPECIAL ISSUE: Island Plant Biology—Celebrating Carlquist’s Legacy
What Nature Does for Britain by Tony Juniper
If you want to make the case for Botany’s importance anywhere in the world, then this is the book for you.