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Category: Art
Heather finally printed the follow up to her cellular self portrait (links to the first print), this time using plant cells. I particularly like the difference in movement between the prints. A week from this Friday she's having her senior...
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Category: Ecology
In Part I we looked at the eastern hemlock's northwestern progression after the last ice age, and the frequency of the hemlock along a slope-oriented moisture gradient: The distribution pictured above is almost exactly the case in the Laurel Hill...
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Category: Ecology
About 16,000 years ago, glaciation from the last ice age finally began to retreat after millennia of occupation. As the glaciers melted and filled scrapes in the landscape with fresh water, the animals and plants followed, once only able to...
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Category: Ecology
This seems to be a more sensible theory regarding leaf color change in autumn: By taking careful stock and laboratory analyses of the autumn foliage of sweetgum and red maple trees along transects from floodplains to ridge-tops in a nature...
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Category: Plants
Paleoecologist Margaret Davis' work has become legend among ecologists. She analyzed layer upon layer of pollen buried in lake sediments in the Appalachian Mountains to determine the natural history of trees in the area. She found an interesting pattern: Spruce...
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Category: Animals
Welcome to the Tangled Bank and to The Voltage Gate. The theme of this 84th edition of TB is science in Ancient Greece, so we'll be exploring what that meant to them, and jumping ahead a couple millenia to...
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Category: Plants
Interesting study, bad press release.
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Category: Philosophy
Carl had a lot to say about sex, God and human origins.
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Category: Carnivals
A ton of great posts on the latest edition of the traveling ecology and environmental science blog carnival.
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Category: Plants
Want one in your backyard? National Geographic provides.
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