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Dr Chris Hatcher retweeted
Researchers from Loughborough and @uniofglos have uncovered how sundews become more carnivorous in certain habitats 🌱
They alter the density of their leaf tentacles and the uptake of nitrogen from prey to thrive in different microhabitats.
Read more ➡️ lboro.uk/4atiCkP
ALT Sun dew plant with a black winged bug caught in it's red leaf tentacles
Dr Chris Hatcher retweeted
📰Published📰 Carnivorous sundews are more carnivorous in high-light bog microhabitats that are not also nutrient-rich
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Great session today with prospective @uglosbioscience students covering all things from carnivorous plant evolution to drones and microscope skills in ecology
Blimey, I bet the peat corer was heavy coming out of this one
Many #peatlands have a few metres of peat below the surface & are important carbon stores. But this site in Greece-Tenaghi Philippon-has nearly 200m of peat accumulated over >1 million yrs! Our new @NatureComms paper highlights valuable information we can learn from #peat records
Dr Chris Hatcher retweeted
ALT Ogmore-by-sea coast with frost over the ground
ALT River Ogmore with frost on the banks and most over the water
ALT Margam castle with Port Talbot steelworks in th background
ALT Swansea beach with clouds creating shadows across the water
Dr Chris Hatcher retweeted
Field site recce visit with @DrLABest, @biohatcher and @JuliaWE88 today for undergraduate teaching and postgraduate research projects. Lovely to see a fine herd of Longhorn cattle being used for grazing as a surrogate for the extinct aurochs 🐮
“I have come to Antarctica to receive post and count penguins… and I’m all out of post” bbc.com/news/uk-england-hamp…
Dr Chris Hatcher retweeted
What? Are you serious. "doing the right things" A huge unfunded tax giveaway to the top 1% is "doing the right things"? Biggest tax cuts in 50 years when public sector are breaking due to under-funding is "doing the right thing". What a bizzare thing to say.
"My advice to people in Downing Street: you are doing the right things but you are trying to do them too quickly" says Alistair Milne of @LboroSBE @lborouniversity
#GlobelynxVOD #GlobelynxConnects
The butterfly that drinks caterpillars alive…
Challenge: find a more enticing article title about science theguardian.com/environment/…
@AdamHartScience should I tell them about the photo or should you? @bbc
bbc.com/newsround/58666791
A bizarre and interesting example of unexpected outcomes of the reintroduction of a species.
Hyperparasitoids and all! theguardian.com/environment/…
I am proud to find a very good commentary from Dr Axel Mithöfer published focusing on a paper I (and colleagues) submitted to Annals of Botany @annbot earlier this year:
Spotlight on prey-induced metabolite dynamics in sundew.
doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcab093
Contrary to what you may think, a sunflower head is actually a collection of hundreds, if not thousands, of smaller flowers. Can be seen in the photo below if you look closely, flowers opening from the outside but not yet the in centre.
Another day in the field #remotesensing for plant health and flower counts. Sunflowers should be fairly easy for the model to identify…
Great day yesterday for #remotesensing using the multispectral drone for a bit of everything: species composition, plant health and orchard yield prediction data. Cheltenham and Gloucester off in the distance(ish!)😎
New lineage of carnivorous plant with traps on the flower stems. Avoids pollinator-prey conflict by capturing insects smaller than its pollinators.
Paper is behind a pay wall
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022724…
And summarised here and elsewhere:
news.sky.com/story/scientist…
The advice for dealing with climate-deniers (& delayers): “Provide them no oxygen. Block and report if you must but don’t engage.”
“We have zero years left”
Short article summarising the IPCC (Climate Change) report 2021 in the tweet below is well worth a look.
"Dr Michael Mann on the IPCC report: We have ZERO years left to avoid climate change, it’s here" via @RedGreenAndBlue: redgreenandblue.org/2021/08/…