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Bob Tregilus

On a more serious note, Tikaboo Valley is an evolutionary lab where Yucca brevifolia (joshua tree) is adapting to climate change. The bushy western variety & the thin eastern variety are hybridizing here & moving north. Y. brevifolia's pollinator is Tegeticula synthetica (yucca moth) & 13k years ago its seeds were distributed far & wide by Nothrotheriops shastensis (giant Shasta ground sloth). Now, tiny animals distribute the seeds locally. 2/2

A black and white landscape photo showing a narrow sandy desert road cutting from the lower right to left-center of the frame. Thick short dry shrubs cover the landscape. Tall tree like plants with long trunks and large knobs of spike like leafs and numerous on both sides of the road. A tall mountain range is seen int he distance.
#ClimateChange#Botany#BlackAndWhite
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Megan Lynch (she/her)

I won't be able to kick off work on this until I'm settled in across the ocean, but I've long said that building an academic biology (esp the non-human parts of biology) community here is going to take work.

To that end, who's up for designing and running an accessible online academic conference a la Biotweeps, but using Fediverse tools and innovating formats that fit those tools?

Speak up in the replies, please.

@plantscience #STEM #Science #Biology #Botany

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John Dal

Greater Stichwort, Rabelera holostea. Common as muck around our place (Northumberland, UK) this starry little thing brightens up hedgerows and woodland tracksides at this time of year. It has lots of lookalikes which are actually a different genus. (It's complicated and frankly dull- avoid talking to taxonomists at the bar😆 )
#PlantADay #Botany #Nature #Plant #Wildflower

A sunlit starry white flower with 5 divided petals and rather straggly stems with long narrow leaves, all set against a dark background.
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