We created a fairly simple way to create ggplot objects from plant images. With this method, we pre-loaded a series of ggplot maps from well-known plant structures. These maps can be easily worked on a ggplot coding environment to produce nice plots.

As a part of #NSFCAREER broader impacts, I am creating an educational video series focusing on the FUNDAMENTALS OF PLANT ANATOMY with Molly Edwards, PhD! 🥼🔬🌿🌱🍃 Help us narrow down the focus areas by taking this self assessment: forms.gle/redARGV2ej6AgJ… Deadline: May 1, 2024

Dryland perennial plants create productive and biodiverse hotspots, known as fertile islands. In Nature Plants we report results from the first assessment of how grazing and other factors relate to plant-created fertile islands across global drylands nature.com/articles/s4147…

As a reviewer, I agree with many points of this view article. The peer review process could have a better structure and reduce unnecessary work nature.com/articles/d4158…

Everybody had a blast at the 1st annual tropical root ecology workshop held by Dr. Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes! Students from University of Miami BGSO and FIU learned methods to collect, analyze, and preserve roots to study their morphology and evolution.

Thanks to all the students who participated in the first tropical root ecology workshop. Very happy to see all these young scientists so excited about root ecology #FIU #TREELab #plantroots

The contrasting root diameter between roots of Peperomia (left) and Piper (right) family Piperaceae. Peperomias are usually epiphytes, while Pipers are often shubs. Is diameter reduction a frequent adaptation to become an epiphyte?

Reflecting on last week’s 12th International Conference on Mycorrhiza 2024 conference…what in the world of mycorrhizal research did you find truly new? I’ll start… #icom12

Dynamic regulation of PHR2 is essential for arbuscule maintenance 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #Commentary by Bashyal et al. 👆 highlighting the recent work by Wang et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Finally published! Macroevolution of the plant–hummingbird pollination system - by Barreto and collaborators- 2024 - Biological Reviews - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

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Trait-based ecology, trait-free ecology and in between nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/TCEQNATI… Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences

OPINION Evaluating the Usefulness of the C-S-R Framework for Understanding AM Fungal Responses to #ClimateChange in #Agroecosystems buff.ly/3Bf6DKC #agriculture

NEW RESEARCH Long-Term Soil Warming Drives Different Belowground Responses in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal and Ectomycorrhizal Trees 📄 buff.ly/41r4NAO @ncharisoil @carboncyclesnh seritafrey Benton Taylor #HarvardForest #carbon #roots

#TansleyInsight: In the #nectar, there are answers: exploring the intersection of colored nectars and reactive #oxygen species in manipulating #pollinator behavior Evin Magner, Rahul Roy, Adrian Hegeman & Clay Carter 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #LatestIssue Wiley Plant Science

Two scientists say they’ve built a tool that can calculate how much damage oil and gas companies’ planet-warming pollution has caused — and how much money they could be forced to pay if they’re successfully sued. wapo.st/3GpY6GT

🪵Recent study shows increase in woody density in former grasslands as a consequence of woody plant encroachment, with vegetation shifting from grasslands towards forest-like vegetation structurally👇 #grassland #functionalecology buff.ly/vZGQRxm

Using reflectance spectra and Pl@ntNet to identify species of Lithocarpus in herbaria Neto-Bradley et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Protecting nature is central to economic prosperity. Along with leading UK academics, we've signed an open letter coordinated by Prof Nathalie Seddon, Oxford & Nature-based Solutions Initiative @UniofOxford, urging the Prime Minister to place nature at the centre of economic and climate policy. We want to see nature

Great time sampling roots of high altitude tree species in a Oak forest in Costa Rica. #FIU #treelab