Defence traits vary across leaf ages in the thistles (Cardueae) - besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Great work from Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong & Jaein Choi in @funecology.bsky.social

For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for safekeeping in a vault of native California seeds. n.pr/4ttOsq4

Our new #BIEN biodiversity data workflow paper is out! BIEN is an ecosystem of modular, open-source BIEN tools for collecting, harmonizing, and validating biodiversity data -- and an integrated global database (BIEN db) of plant occurrences, traits & geographic ranges. doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪🌐🌾🌵

Check our new publication about shifted spring ephemeral pollination window impacted by flowering time, pollinator occurrence, and canopy closure under climate change! #phenology #springbeauty #phenologicalmismatch #climatechange @parklab.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

JCI - Hyperinsulinemia-induced upregulation of adipocyte TPH2 contributes to peripheral serotonin production, metabolic dysfunction, and obesity www.jci.org/articles/vie...

Our new paper on #plant #invasive species and #phenology is out! doi.org/10.1111/geb.... Nonnative plants tend to be phenologically and phylogenetically more distant from natives than natives are from each other, but among them, invasive species are closer to natives than non-invasive ones.

We are looking for a #postdoc! Interested in the #ecology #biodiversity #plants #DataScience? Join us and study #biodiversity through space🌍 and time⏳. More at: bio.purdue.edu/lab/park/new...

Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees