It’s hotting up for plants
What does a warmer future mean for plants? Can plants adapt, or will they be driven to extinction? Read on
Tag: restoration
How best to restore the astronomical scale of degraded lands?
How can scientific experiments help restore the vast tracks of degraded lands around the earth? However mesmerizing Earthrise may be,
Why is leaf shape important to plants?
Plants have different shaped leaves to cope with different environmental conditions. But many plants change the shape of their leaves
Forests hiding in plain sight
A new global analysis looking at the distribution of forests and woodlands has ‘found’ 467 million hectares of previously unreported
Cryptic but important genetic differences within species
As Charles Darwin noted, the physical differences between individuals of a species are important for their future survival and success (or not).
The maladapted future is here – it’s just not evenly distributed*
Why do we need to take urgent account of current climate maladaptation in ecological restoration….. I am sitting in my office
Shifting restoration’s mindset away from the ‘Garden of Eden’
There has been a recent recommendation to set restoration baselines as pre-degradation ecological communities. However this is a nostalgic aspiration, akin
Local is not always best
The use of local seed is widely advocated for habitat restoration and is based on the premise that locally sourced
Tiger, tiger, burning bright*
Since yesterday’s post was a bit of a depressing one (and there’s the understatement of the year), today’s will be
Wild and wilder
I wrote about one approach to revegetating recently – the suggestion was to clone some of the extremely old trees
