Lyreleaf sage, aka Salvia lyrata. It is in the same genus as sage (the herb used in cooking) and rosemary. In the entry Salvia, they write on Wikipedia: Salvia is the largest genus of plants in the sage family Lamiaceae, with nearly 1000 species of shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and annuals. Within the Lamiaceae, Salvia is …
Around Cypresswood Drive.
Amah Akodéwou and Michel Godron have some interesting, beautiful diagrams and mathematics in “Agricultural Land-Use Increases Floral Species Richness in Tropical Dry Forest and Savannah Ecosystems in West Africa.” I have not dug into the strengths and weaknesses of the paper, whatever there may be there, but I love the math! In the abstract, they …
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In “Eugene Odum: The father of modern ecology” (UGA Today, 9 January 2018), James Hataway writes (: Eugene Odum was not given to fits of anger, but this time he was furious. It was the fall of 1946. Odum, then a young associate professor in the University of Georgia’s biology department, had taught a course …
In “Ecology Stories Episode One: What is Biodiversity?“, Mike and Debby Kaspari write: Each person’s pursuit of biophilia leads to a discovery: some places are richer in animals and plants and microbes, others less so. This discovery is captured in the word “biodiversity”. In biodiversity, we count and compare the kinds of living things in …
In “The Ten Principles of Ecology” (17 July 2012), Mike Kaspari (see also Google Scholar. the University of Oklahoma, and his Curriculum Vitae) writes: The Ten Principles of Ecology 1. Evolution organizes ecological systems into hierarchies. Individual organisms combine into populations, populations combine into species, species combine into higher taxa like genera and phyla. Each …