Inside our Collections, Plant Science
Posted in Inside our Collections, Plant Science
Materials
held
in
the
LuEsther
T.
Mertz
Library
are
extremely
important
resources
for
research
related
to
climate
change,
especially
those
related
to
species
distribution
and
...
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Garden News, Inside our Collections, Plant Science
Posted in Garden News, Inside our Collections, Plant Science
Herbarium
specimens
are
one
of
the
very
few
tangible
sources
of
information
about
how
plants
and
fungi
lived
before
industrialization,
and
during
each
successive
period
...
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Plant Science
Posted in Plant Science
The
green
plant
tree
of
life
is
built
upon
many
evolutionary
innovations.
Plants
have
come
a
long
way
since
they
began
as
single-celled
organisms
one
...
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Plant Science
Posted in Plant Science
The
concept
of
a
“living
fossil”
was
first
proposed
by
Darwin
in
his
book
On
the
Origin
of
Species
in
1859.
The
term
“living
fossil”
...
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Plant Science
Posted in Plant Science
The
federal
government
recently
announced
plans
to
significantly
weaken
the
Endangered
Species
Act
(ESA),
the
most
important
legislation
ever
enacted
to
protect
threatened
plants
and
...
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Behind the Scenes, Plant Science
Posted in Behind the Scenes, Plant Science
In
our
Steere
Herbarium,
a
combination
of
capturing
ultra
high-resolution
images
of
specimens
and
entering
detailed
information
about
each
specimen
in
a
searchable
database
is
...
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Environment & Conservation, Plant Science
Posted in Environment & Conservation, Plant Science
A
renowned
landscape
architect,
Burle
Marx
was
also
a
passionate,
outspoken
conservationist.
His
writings
on
environmental
topics
in
Brazil—powerful
when
written
a
half-century
ago—have
a
...
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Plant Science
Posted in Plant Science
Dolly
Parton
isn't
the
only
public
figure
to
have
a
new
species
of
lichen
named
after
her
by
NYBG
scientists.
Following
precedent
in
naming
discoveries
...
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Plant Science
Posted in Plant Science
Proposed
legislation
has
been
introduced
in
both
the
United
States
Senate
and
House
of
Representatives
with
the
rather
formidable
title
“Botanical
Sciences
and
Native
Plant
...
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Environment & Conservation, Plant Science
Posted in Environment & Conservation, Plant Science
As
noted
in
my
most
recent
post,
negotiators
at
the
Paris
climate
conference,
known
as
COP21,
emphasized
the
importance
of
the
role
of
forests
in
...
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