urban ecologist and lover of the Calumet, urban greenspace, northern latitudes, belly botany.
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Love spontaneous urban ecosystems on post-industrial slag-dominated sites? we do too (@lglyndal+laura merwin+me) - you can read our #openaccess opinion piece published in @SERestoration about why these sites should be considered ecologically valuable.
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relevant to your #slag interests! I had no idea this was possible - bt spontaneous ecosystems and carbon sequestration, slag may be an amazing conservation & sustainability tool!
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*Extirpated species alert!* Led by botanist Nathanael Pilla, we found a plant species on the Southeast Side of Chicago last cataloged in the 1800s! The Calumet slag barrens are amazing sites of diversity.
Check it out (link in reply): The Rediscovery of Eleocharis geniculata
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Hello friends! It's been a while, but we're back.
We are sure you all have many questions for us, and we hope to answer them in the coming weeks. In the mean time, for more information, visit our website: 500womenscientists.org/
#500WS #500WomenScientists
check out this lovely article by Sheryl Devore about the historic #RainbowBeach, its vibrant Victory Garden, and the natural area, full of native plants at RBD! nachicago.com/2024/07/31/499…
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Facing stress and struggles? A reminder that plant carnivory evolved independently at least a dozen times in response to environmental challenges. Difficult problems can lead to innovation and great beauty. Be the sundew.
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The South Side Sanctuary community plaza has opened in Bronzeville. buff.ly/46zGPnD
An interesting essay on the applicability of one of the more influential books in my life, Edwin A Abbott's Flatland, to climate change edgeeffects.net/climate-pres… via @edgeeffectsmag
We didn’t hear any #cicadas at all til we were south of 80. Here’s what it sounded like as we started our ramble at a forest preserve in Will County
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Did you know that NYBG's Steere Herbarium has one of the best collections of #algae in the world? In fact, our 130,896 specimens of algae include more than 10,000 species, and weigh as much as 1.5 bull African Elephants! #NYBGscience
it has been a very strange (not) winter in the Great Lakes/upper midwest
long live #thismiaamericana.
these buddies are hard to find!
"Out of the approximately 100 described Thismia species, at least 55 are known only from their original discovery locations, and at least 38 have been documented based on a single discovery instance."
In a surprising turn of events, @tugutuguk and his colleagues made an amazing discovery. Please meet #Relictithismia kimotsukiensis, a new genus of #Thismiaceae from #Japan.
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Forgot to post skunky c’s and fruiting mosses from Cowles Bog last weekend! I’m looking at you @skunkcabbages and there’s not even slag around.
