Modern Farmer: What motivated you to start Mountain Moss? ‘Every time I see the bulldozers, my heart aches for all of the plants that got destroyed.’ Annie Martin: I had a two-pronged stimulus. Number ...
Learning about flowering plants (angiosperms) can be a lifelong study for a gardener. One report states that they include 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and about 295,383 known ...
Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...
Under the roof of what was once to become the residence of the future King of Finland, researchers painstakingly study herbarium specimens of mosses, liverworts and hornworts, also known as bryophytes ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A volunteer team at the California Academy of Sciences has reached a milestone in its research collection. The academy now has more than 100,000 specimens of a plant group called ...
Large mammals and exotic plants get all the attention, and conservation efforts are often directed at protecting them. Who who protects our mosses? This often-neglected group of non-vascular lower ...
Microhexura montivaga (Spruce-fir Moss Spider) is a federally endangered arachnid endemic to high-elevation montane conifer forests of the southern Appalachian Mountains. The spider is cryptic and ...
Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...
In the news business, an evergreen is a story that doesn't have to run on a particular day, but can stay fresh for a long time. This is an evergreen story about an evergreen. In particular, a group of ...
Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol. 20, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CHESTNUT (2006), pp. 28-32 (5 pages) The bryophyte epiphytic biodiversity in some chestnut stands on Mount Etna were investigated.
Moss has long been treated as background scenery, a green blur on rocks and roofs, yet it is quietly overturning assumptions about how life began on land, how it survives in extremes, and even how ...
Good news, mountain lovers! India has just got its first Moss garden which was inaugurated at Nainital district in Uttarakhand by Rajendra Singh, Ramon Magsaysay awardee and well-known water ...
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