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Ep. 482 - Walnuts Above the Arctic Circle?
Episode 482
The High Arctic is not a place you go looking for forests today. It is extremely harsh, cold, and nearly void of most forms of plant life. However, t…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 481 - Borderlands Restoration in Action
Episode 481
Deserts are difficult places for any organism to survive, let alone plants. Despite the challenges, rich a unique floras have evolved in deserts all …
2 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 480 - Understanding Bark Beetles
Episode 480
Bark beetles may be small, but they can have major impacts on forests around the globe. It may be easy to think of these insects as always a bad thin…
2 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 479 - Insights into Nightshade Defenses
Episode 479
Plants cannot run away from the herbivores that eat them, therefore plants have evolved numerous strategies to defend themselves from being consumed.…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 478 - Milkweed Defense De-Escalation
Episode 478
Plant defense compounds are great for the plants that produce them as they can ward off herbivore attacks. But what happens when a group of specialis…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 477 - Juncus, What a Rush!
Episode 477
Join Chief Botanist for NatureServe Wes Knapp and me as we take a deep dive into an all-too-often overlooked group of plants - the rushes (genus Junc…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 476 - Ashes, Roses, and the Great Southern Brood
Conservation Biologist Sara Johnson returns to the podcast to talk about some of the botanical rabbit holes we have been exploring in recent weeks. W…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ep. 475 - Island Restoration Needs Plants
Episode 475
Islands are hotbeds for unique biodiversity. Strange and unique island plants form the foundation of strange and unique ecosystems. Sadly, the human …
2 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 474 - Untangling Cryptic Diversity
Episode 474
Sometimes the differences between species are vast (e.g., a maple and an oak) but other times they are subtle to the point of requiring a trained eye…
2 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 473 - Root Evolution Revisited
Episode 473
There is no denying that roots are one of the most important organs on a plant. However, unless its an epiphyte, root activity takes place undergroun…
2 years, 3 months ago