Still time to send your latest botanical contributions to BGR carnival!

BGR will be posted soon at Catalogue of Organisms, but you’re allowed (actually you really should if you haven’t done it yet) to submit within the next three days… [send your submissions to gerarus at westnet.com.au].

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A new plant blog

Hum, not much content yet, but let’s see what Biofortified will look like in a next future… Multiauthored and supposed to deal with plant engineering. (HT The Intersection).

Nature carnivals

The latest editions for nearly all existing nature based blog carnivals can be found at Nature Blog Network, so I’ll only send you there and let you make your choice, all these are really good carnivals, to which I may add the quite recent carnival of evolution (# 5 here)…

Shameless (self) promotion (3)

Just published this month. But this is a small case of self promotion, since I got a somewhat low rank in authorship… But hey, that’s still counting, isn’t it?* :-p

Morphing Atlas

Here, a sery of eighteen maps morphed according to various parameters (HT The World’s Fair). Unfortunately, there are only 18, I wish there were more.
Not especially cool: net incoming tourism (number of tourist trips made to that territory minus the number made from that territory to elsewhere) [map #4], France is one of the biggest: [...]

Good luck, that is…

Yep, it’s a lesson I wish will spread over in, ’cause we need it here too. Still, I’m happy to see my feelings expressed somewhere at least…

The flock of torna(do)does

While climatic events can drive dramatic selection events in natural populations, it is (sort of) difficult to think of tornadoes as triggering specific adaptations. Maybe that’s because we are particularly impressed by the power of these (gosh!) _really big_ storms. Maybe there’s another bias in that we mostly think of life as mainly animal based, and [...]

Interlude

Coming back soon to a seedier state (that is to a steadier seat)… Let you discover Neo Angin, as I recently did. Graphically interesting (and you know I’m attracted to graphs and calligraphs).

Berry Go Round #10 is up

You can find the latest edition of Berry Go Round at 10 000 Birds… A why you love plants edition, telling you there isn’t any escape since you have to fulfill needs only plants can help you with…