Planting Clues should not only appeal to the general reader, but will also serve well as a textbook for an undergraduate course on forensic botany.
Tag - diatoms
Nigel Chaffey
Good things come in small packages
And few eukaryotic things are smaller than diatoms, unicellular algae that are common, numerous and taxonomically extremely diverse, particularly in the oceans. Small? Yes, typically 20 – 200 µm in diameter. Good? Yes;...
Vital amines
Notwithstanding plants’ rightly applauded self-sufficiency, and remarkable life-sustaining synthetic abilities using basic inorganic ingredients, some plant-like organisms need a little extra help in the form of organic...
That sinking feeling…
Whilst forests – aided and abetted by cryptogams (see my previous post) – have a major role as biotic carbon sinks on land, in the oceans that role is largely down to the activity of cryptogamous phytoplankton, which...
Rejoice, ‘tis the real Bloom’s Day (to be sure…)
June 16th is the date upon which certain individuals around the world celebrate Irish writer James Joyce’s 1904-set literary classic Ulysses. Termed Bloom’s Day – after Leopold Bloom, the famously impenetrable novel’s...
The Enormous Influence of Microscopic Marine Plants
Many phytoplankton share a common feature with their larger non-aquatic cousins, the land plants: chloroplasts. Therefore they are also united in their ability to photosynthesize and their environmental requirement of...
Petra Kiviniemi
Convoluted carbon cycle collection
Of all the biogeochemical cycles that help to sustain life on Earth, the carbon cycle is arguably the most important (although not necessarily the most straightforward!). The following collection of papers help to...
