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Areas of #endemism of the #orchids of Megamexico represent hotspots of #biotic interactions that must be considered when building #conservation strategies. Read the paper here! https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13119
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#JSE #PlantSci #ecology #Mexico #pollinator #phylogeny #botany #evolution

Summary of assay types (biogeographic, ecological, and evolutionary attributes, and taxonomic aspects) used to determine whether areas of endemism of the orchids of Megamexico are hotspots of biotic interactions.

✨ Open Special Issue ✨

Plant Stress Physiology: Safeguarding Food Security in a Changing Climate

Edited by Adriano Nunes Nesi, Agustin Zsögön, and Wagner L. Araújo

We welcome contributions that address the molecular, biochemical, and physiological responses of #crop plants to #abiotic and #biotic stressors.

🗓️ Deadline 1st Nov 2024

Special issue. Call for submissions. Plant Stress Physiology. Deadline 1st November 2024.

📝 Meet our new editorial #intern, Tessa Reed, from Rothamsted Research. She is a mentee of Miriam Gifford and specialises in:

🌾 plant-#microbe interactions
🌾 plant growth-promoting #rhizobacteria
🌾 root-#soil interactions
🌾 #biotic and #abiotic stress
🌾 #wheat

Dr. Amanda Shankland would like to share ‘Cultivating Community..’ The newest edition of the newsletter features a piece by Dr. Jennifer Marshman that looks at ‘One Health’, an innovative whole-of-community approach that includes all members of the biotic community. You can subscribe to her newsletter on google groups.

#Community #EnvironmentalMovement #FoodMovements #Sustainable #Biotic #Bee #Bees #Pollinators

https://groups.google.com/g/cultivating_community

@calafou @imvectech just heard of this and thought that you could be interested: https://www.planktoscope.org/

#environment #river #pollution #plankton #biotic

When can feedbacks between organisms and their #environment underpin coexistence? And how do #communityDynamics differ when #environmentalVariation is generated by #biotic feedbacks versus #abiotic drivers? We develop simple #theoreticalModels to explore these questions and more.

Article by Zachary R. Miller and Stefano Allesina now available ahead of print!

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/724821

There are five so-called "#garbage #patches" in the earth's oceans – areas where #currents concentrate surface and near-surface #trash (particularly #plastics).

Obligate #neustonic #organisms – #animals and #plants that must live at or very near the ocean surface – also concentrate in those locations.

So what does that mean for the #ecology of this unique #biotic #community?

See Chong et al (2023) if you would like to know more.

OA 🔗: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001646

#biodiversity #conservation

Quote from Fig. 1 heading in the paper: "Fig 1. The neustonic organisms represented in this study, based on [1].
(a) Top-down view of by-the-wind sailor Velella sp. (b) Top-down view of blue button Porpita sp. (c) Side view of Portuguese man-o-war Physalia sp. (d) Side view of violet snail Janthina sp. (e) Top-down view of the blue sea dragons Glaucus sp. Images by Denis Riek."

#Saguaro 🌵 are an important part of the #biotic community in the #Sonoran #Desert 🏜️. They are a vital part of the diet of #Indigenous people in the area.

Due to #climate #change-related shifts in #weather, the mature individuals are no longer reproducing. They are dying without being replaced.

The #IUCN currently lists them as "least concern" but also "declining." The most recent assessment is from 2017.

See:

🔗 https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10042023/saguaro-restoration-climate-change/

🔗 https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/152495/121476885

🔗 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11258-014-0326-y

Large old-growth saguaro. Image by Ray Redstone (CC).

Women (Maricopa) gathering saguaro fruits in 1907. This important practice continues into the present day. Public Domain (Edward Curtis).

A finch perching on a saguaro fruit. Saguaros are a keystone species in their environment. Image CC by Quinn Dombrowski.

“#Inuit are a #maritime people - we depend on the coast, #ocean and #sea ice for our #FoodSecurity, #culture and #economy, ” Sara Olsvig, ICC’s International Chair, said in a statement.

“From an Inuit perspective, like #HumanRights, all #LivingBeings are #interrelated , #interdependent and #interconnected – when one dimension is #impacted there is a #dynamic cascade amongst #connecting #ecological structures across #abiotic , #biotic and #cultural elements.

https://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/2023/03/16/un-high-seas-treaty-praised-by-inuit-circumpolar-council/

A mechanism behind how #plants can develop long-term #immunity to #stress has been discovered by #scientists at the University of Sheffield. #Biotic stress experienced by plants can take the form of attacks by #insect #herbivores or #disease-causing #pathogens.
#Biology #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/03/bio03082301.html

Does anyone on here have experience with the #NSF #Plant #Biotic #interactions #grant program? I submitted a proposal 6 months ago and haven't heard anything. Starting to wonder what's going on.

Biosphere, the biotic and abiotic ecosphere.

These are the voyages of the planet Earth.

Its continuing orbit around a bright yellow dwarf star, to evolve new life forms and new civilizations, to "boldly" go around where it.........? erm? went around before.

#space #Biosphere #ecosphere #ecology #biotic #abiotic #cosmos #cosmology #EarthShip #starship #stars #earth #planet #evolution #civilisation #species #music #startrek #comedy #education