Tag: Ecology
2nd course: Cereals, nettles and conifers (and fish…) ****
1st course: Seagrass ****
Food, glorious food! ***, ****
Wood-wide web wins world-renowned writing award
Burning States
Wildfires are on the move in North America. Not just sweeping across landscapes in a season, but also changing where they appear over the years.
The plant that farms other plants for food
It’s not just animals that the bladderwort, Utricularia, eats. Two new papers are finding out how bladderworts also digest microscopic plants.
Plants are weird – and rather wonderful too!
Mammoth news: Bees help plants
Cell cycle arrest in plants
In the cell cycle, the G1 phase can be like a prison, where plant cells are arrested, unable to divide. These cells have been arrested for different reasons, serving sentences of different lengths. So how and why did they get there?
How fungi oxygenated the Earth
The hyperactive heavy metal band
Flying insects plummet
Where have all the flower-pollinating insects have gone?
Brand new 3.7 billion years old stromatolites
One of the most ancient forms of life on the planet might be more common than we thought.