Posted in Carnival, English, Evolution, Plant stuff, Postponed, Uncategorized on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Right now it should be up at A Blog Around The Clock. But since I’m not here, I can’t provide you with the actual link right now. Please go there and scroll down to find out about the latest edition of your favorite plant carnival (and please, fellow bloggers, advertise it!)…
I’ll provide you with the correct link as soon as I come back, I promise! Here it is, and it’s another very nice edition!
Posted in English, Postponed, Snapshot links on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m away South looking for Berry. While I can’t write substance, there’s some interesting summary as to what the future of conservation biology might be. Translocating species to help them colonize suitable habitat before they go extinct. Hum, I hope it will work, but it is best to be seriously plannified before the work begins.
Posted in English, Evolution, Food, Snapshot links on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Greg was wondering what such a list would look like if from a non-American perspective… So I did the trick quickly, and don’t comment… Fortunately, there are a lot of French authors so that it helped me a little bit, but I have to confess I’ve never really read the classics, even French ones.
Posted in Academia, English, Science, Snapshot links on July 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hopefully, not always. But blogging, just like popularizing sciences, seems hurting appreciation by peers. Why? Dunno, but I really would like to understand… Comments welcome…
Posted in Uncategorized on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few coleopteran trivia concerning Cetonia aurata, or more precisely its foraging behaviour on Viburnum opulus in Sweden:
R. Englund (1993). Movement patterns of Cetonia beetles (Scarabaeidae) among flowering Viburnum opulus (Caprifoliaceae). Option for long-distance pollen dispersal in a temperate shrub. Oecologia 94:295-302.
This paper is also interesting per se, because as you may have noticed, it has a subtitle. This is something I’ve not seen in recent papers, it seems that this way of announcing disappeared within the last decade (let’s play the game of finding other biological papers with subtitles!).
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first edition of The Giant’s Shoulder, a new carnival devoted to history of sciences and historical landmark papers is published at A Blog Around The Clock. Please go read, there’s a lot of posts featured…
The next edition of Berry Go Round (#7) will also be posted at A Blog Around The Clock, so please send your submissions before the 25th!
Last, I will be hosting the next Oekologie carnival, so you can send me submissions at seedsaside (at) gmail…
Posted in English, Food, Fruits, Plant stuff on July 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Did you ever heard of Bixaceae before? Some probably do. Bixaceae is a rather small family, with a still difficult taxonomic delineation, being closely related to Cochlospermaceae, maybe part of it, maybe a true group on its own. Systematicists may come up with an answer, or maybe not, whenever new sequences are added, but morphological evidence is not straightforward and the question is still a matter of classification preferences. Anyway, I come up with Bixaceae because of an interesting species of course, actually because of the mascot of this family. This species is Bixa orellana, and is also known as Achiote in the English world, Roucou in the French world (or derived names such as Urucu in Brasilian Portuguese, taken directly from Tupi). (more…)
Posted in English, Uncategorized on July 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hopefully coming back soon, though probably on an even less frequent basis. Real life business matters, after all… But before that, a commemoration. Sky is lightning hard everywhere here, it’s noisy like there’s a storm front moving, waving around, well not exactly like that but close.
Posted in Carnival, English, Evolution on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival, dealing with anthropology and other things human, can be read (44th edition) at Greg Laden’s blog. A wide range of topics, from adaptiveness of morning sickness in pregnant woman to Hip Hop linguistics, taking even a turn into the messes of conservapedia. Seems like there’s nothing as diverse as the human mind…
 | Paula Kuitenbrouwerp… on About me |
 | susannah on Peanut Leechy Gallery: Li… |
| Fern poetry | Seeds… on Playing words | |
 | Fig & Quince on Not possible |
| azita on It’s friday, free p… |
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