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I JSUT HANDED IT IN!!

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In 1975, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Seattle District, Environmental Resources Section) released The Washington Environmental Atlas (aka: Provisional U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Reconnaissance Inventory of the State of Washington 1975), a 114 page book that cost over $200,000 to make and over 3yrs to research and compile. The atlas contains official maps, graphs, status levels, and reports regarding phytogeography, zoogeography, physical geography, and land use borders for the state of Washington. Also included are archeological sites, rivers and lakes of environmental interest, notable geological features and historical and contemporary points of interest. The book went into great detail describing the native plants of the state (Sitka Spruce, Pacific Dogwood, Wood Rose, Yellow-Eyed Grass, etc.) as well as the native animals (Bald Eagle, Coastal Cutthroat Trout, Roosevelt Elk, American Pika, etc.). Some species were even given their own individual pages which provided even more detail than other species. One of these native creatures that were given their own page is the legendary Cryptid known as Bigfoot.

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Janaki Ammal.

Janaki Ammal Edavalath Kakkat (4 November 1897 – 7 February 1984) was an Anglo-Indian botanist who worked on plant breeding, cytogenetics and phytogeography. Her most notable work involved studies on sugarcane and the eggplant (brinjal). She also worked on the cytogenetics of a range of plants and co-authored the Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants (1945) with C.D. Darlington. She took an interest in ethnobotany and in plants of medicinal and economic value from the rain forests of Kerala, India. She was awarded a Padma Shri by the Indian government in 1977.

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Wetland Flora of West Bengal by Dr. Monoranjan Chowdhury, Dr. Anurag Chowdhury

About the Book

This book is a lucid presentation of several vascular (pteridophytes and angiosperms) floristic elements that grow in different fresh and saltwater wetlands of West Bengal, India. The book includes general information about the Ramsar sites and major water bodies in different parts of India. It provides in-depth information about the wetland ecosystem, their role in maintaining water table, phytogeography and biodiversity. It also aims at assisting plant science researchers to understand wetland plants, their easy identification and distribution. It includes extensive research–based information gathered from various natural and artificial water bodies and describes all the plants accurately along with easy identification keys and coloured photographs.

About the Author

"Dr. Monoranjan Chowdhury, P.hD is Professor in Botany, University of North Bengal and specialized in Plant taxonomy, biosystematics, ecology, floristics, ethnobotany and wetland and Forest ecosystem. He has published one book and 71 research articles in reputed national and international journals. He served as secretary of EHSST and holds lifetime membership of various national and international bodies like IAPT, IAAT, EHSST, MAPAI and APT. He is a fellow of IAAT and EHSST. Dr. Anurag Chowdhury, P.hD, specialized in Plant taxonomy and biosystematics. He has previously worked at the Department of Space and Indian Institute of Remote Sensing. He has also worked for Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, Govt. of West Bengal. He has published more than 35 research articles in reputed national and international journals. At present, he works as a State Forest Officer at the Department of Forest, Govt. West Bengal."

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Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, phytón = "plant" and γεωγραφία, geographía = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution of plant species and their influence on the earth's surface. Phytogeography is concerned with all aspects of plant distribution, from the controls on the distribution of individual species ranges (at both large and small scales, see species distribution) to the factors that govern the composition of entire communities and floras. Geobotany, by contrast, focuses on the geographic space's influence on plants.

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Historic Phytogeography of South Florida with Present Day Features

Historic Phytogeography of South Florida with Present Day Features

 Phy·to·ge·og·ra·phy: the branch of botany that deals with the geographical distribution of plants.

Historic Phytogeography of South Florida with Present Day SFWMD Features, 2019, by Lexie Hoffart & Nichole Miller, Geographers, SFMWD.

It started with a request, an idea, and over many months materialized with the guidance of  Tia Barnett, Governing Board and Executive Services, and Dr. Ken Chen,…

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Collected on this Day in 1982: One specimen isn’t always enough!

Archiving biological variation.

by Mason Heberling

This specimen is not a specimen but a set of five specimens! Same species (large flowered trillium, Trillium grandiflorum). Same site (in Somerset county, PA). All collected on same date (June 4, 1982) by Frederick H. Utech and Masashi Ohara.

We know that one specimen of every species is not enough. Having many specimens of many species, across many sites, and through time are necessary to document what organisms lived where, when, how far species ranges extend, and how these change through time. We study these specimens to understand biodiversity and biodiversity change across many scales.

But why collect that many vouchers of the same species, from the same site, on same date? One reason might be to send “duplicate” vouchers to other herbaria, both to help other collections expand their holdings, to get expert opinions on identification, and/or to protect against (unlikely but very possible) damage that may happen in one herbarium (like fire, flood, insect damage – oh my!).

But that isn’t what happened here. All specimens are stored together at Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

So why? Well, it is simple, but quite genius, really. Utech and Ohara collected a “life history” voucher series. That is, these specimens each show different stages of the species’ development from small cotyledon-bearing seedlings just germinating above ground, to one leaved plants, to small to large three leaved juvenile trilliums that have not yet flowered, to large adult plants with flowers.

Utech and Ohara, along with Shoichi Kawano, pioneered this method of collecting and advocated for its importance in a 1984 essay in the Journal of Phytogeography and Taxonomy. Historically, plant specimens are collected with a major specific purpose in mind – to document the plant was there at a given time. To do that, botanists of course collect specimens that are best for identification, such that others can verify the species. For most species, that means plants tend to be collected when they are adults and reproductive (with flowers and/or fruits). Specimens without reproductive organs (called “vegetative” specimens) are generally viewed as less useful for this purpose and often avoided.

But Utech and others found that this standard approach, though useful for some research, did not cut it for their work. As organismal biologists studying the life history, ecology, and life cycle of species, they found many species were not well represented in herbarium collections.

Many species, like trillium, have distinct life stages from seedling to juvenile to adult. Many species form overwintering leaves or juvenile leaves that differ dramatically, even unrecognizably, from “typical” adult specimens.

So there’s good reasons to collect across life history and across individuals within a population. Biological collections are all about archiving biodiversity in its many forms, whether across deep time with fossils, across species, within species, or even within populations at a specific site.

Dr. Frederick H. Utech, past curator at Carnegie Museum, at a member's night in 1979.

Dr. Utech (1943-2021) was a curator at the museum from 1976 until 1999. He was then a research botanist at the nearby Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation until his retirement in 2011, notably contributing to three volumes of the Flora of North America project. More than 23 thousand specimens in the Carnegie Museum herbarium were collected by him. Dr. Utech passed away earlier this year but his legacy lives on. You can find his obituary here.

Inspired by the method of life history series and the need for new perspectives in the way we collect, CMNH Botany staff are working to promote and expand these ideas. We are presenting some of these ideas at the Society of Herbarium Curators annual meeting later this summer.

Find many more specimens (24,662 to be exact!) collected by Dr. Utech (including other life history series vouchers) here.

Check back for more! Botanists at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History share digital specimens from the herbarium on dates they were collected. They are in the midst of a three-year project to digitize nearly 190,000 plant specimens collected in the region, making images and other data publicly available online. This effort is part of the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis Project (mamdigitization.org), a network of thirteen herbaria spanning the densely populated urban corridor from Washington, D.C. to New York City to achieve a greater understanding of our urban areas, including the unique industrial and environmental history of the greater Pittsburgh region. This project is made possible by the National Science Foundation under grant no. 1801022.

Mason Heberling is Assistant Curator of Botany at Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Museum employees are encouraged to blog about their unique experiences and knowledge gained from working at the museum.

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Yes, there is another botanical garden in Jerusalem! The Botanical Garden for Israeli Flora on the campus of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus is older, though smaller. It was founded in 1931 by university botanist Prof. Otto Verburg and botany and phytogeography expert Alexander Eig.

This charming six-acre ecological conservatory houses more than 950 species, representing over 40 percent of the wild plant species of Israel. Flourishing in the unique climate of Mount Scopus, the plants were gathered from Mediterranean scrub, desert grasslands, Negev mountain ranges, coastal sand dunes, bodies of water and traditional orchards.

The Mount Scopus Botanical Garden also contains an archeological site: ancient burial caves from the Second Temple period. Buried here is Nicanor of Alexandria, who donated the copper doors of the Temple. Zionist leaders Dr. Yehuda Leib Pinsker and Menachem Ussishkin also were buried in the Nicanor caves.

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My notes for the Introduction chapter of A Guide to Flowering Plant Families by Wendy B. Zomlefer

Glossary

Floristics - The branch of phytogeography concerned with the study of plant species present in an area

Phytogeography - The branch of botany that deals with the geographical distribution of plants

Phytogenetic - Relating to the evolutionary development and classification of a species or group of organisms, or of a particular feature of an organism

Herbarium (pl. herbaria) - a systematically arranged collection of dried plants. Can refer to anything as small as a box dried plants are kept in, to an entire building or multiple buildings housing a collection.

Flora - The plants growing in a region. Think flora and fauna

Circumscribe - To define the limits of something. In this case, a species, genus, or family.

Phenetics (also taximetrics) - an attempt to classify organisms based on overall similarity, regardless of phylogeny or evolutionary relation from glossary

Phylogeny - the branch of biology concerned with phylogenetics from glossary

Monophyletic - A group of organisms descended from a common ancestor, including all descendants. ie all kittens had by one cat (including any descendants of said kittens) are a monophyletic group from glossary

Paraphyletic - A group that includes some, but not all, descendants of a common ancestor. ie one specific litter of kittens from a cat is a paraphyletic group, if the cat has had other litters from glossary

Monocotyledon (also monocot) - A flowering plant that produces one cotyledon

Dicotyledon (also dicot) - A flowering plant that produces two cotyledons

Cotyledon - The primary leaf, or one of two primary leaves in an embryo. The first leaves to come up when a plant sprouts. Also known as a seed leaf from glossary

Synoptic - forming a general summary

Cladistics - A taxonomic theory where the relationships of taxa are determined on shared derived character states, which indicates recency of common ancestry from glossary

Character State - A trait that can be inherited. ie in "hair present" and "hair absent", hair is the character, and present/absent are the states

Pers. Comm. - abbreviation for personal communication, not available to the public. Used to cite emailing, or a discussion in the hallway, etc.

Molecular phylogenetics - Classification based on analyzing DNA for shared ancestry. Whenever she says "molecular x" that's related to DNA studies

Habit - The general appearance of a plant from glossary

Inflorescence - The arrangement of flowers on the floral axis, or a flower cluster from glossary

Perianth - Collective term for the calyx and corolla from glossary

Calyx - The outermost whorl of the typical perianth, composed of the sepals from glossary

Sepal - One part of the other floral envelope, typically green and leaflike. Think those leaves that enclose a dandelion bud, and then fold back as it blooms from glossary

Corolla - The inner whorl (or several inner whorls) of the perianth, composed of the petals from glossary

Androecium - Collective term for the “male” reproductive organs of a flower from glossary

Gynoecium - Collective term for the “female” reproductive organs of a flower from glossary

Staminate - A flower (staminate flower) that lacks a functional gynoecium and has a functional androecium from glossary

Carpellate (also pistillate) - A flower (carpellate flower) that has a functional gynoecium and lacks a functional androecium from glossary

Monoecious - Plants that bear staminate and carpellate flowers on the same plant, but do not bear perfect flowers. Think pumpkins and other squash from glossary

Dioecious - Plants that bear staminate and carpellate flowers on different plants. Think asparagus or spinach from glossary

Polygamodioecious - Functionally dioecious, but forms a few flowers of the “opposite” sex or a few perfect flowers on the same plant from glossary

Perfect - A flower with a functional androecium and a functional gynoecium from glossary

Xylem - The tissue that transports water and nutrients throughout a plant. Wood is an example of xylem

Pholem - Tissue that brings sugars out of leaves

Sclerenchyma - Protective or supporting tissue. Typically has thicker cell walls and lignin

Endosperm - The tissue of many seeds, contains starches and oils. Derived from the triple fusion nucleus of the embryo sac. from glossary This is the part of the seed that goes into things like white flour, coconut meat, and coconut water. More details on the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endosperm I can’t figure out how to distill that into a nice definition

Perisperm - Seed storage tissue, similar to the endosperm but derived from the nucellus from glossary - more details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovule but there is A LOT of jargon

Summary:

The introduction has an intro and 5 sections, with some of them having subsections. This chapter goes over what the structure of the rest of the book will be like, as well as noting the major cited works and authors.

Intro

Angiosperms, or flowering plants, have been the dominant form of plant for more than 100 million years. They are extremely diverse, and include most plants humans depend on. This book focuses on families of flowering plants, because families can be found around the world, whereas genera (sg. genus) and species are often too regionally specific.

Choice of Classification

This section goes over historical attempts to classify plants, and discusses how in the past genetic relationships weren’t generally considered. Zomlefer doesn’t seem to like that, and instead generally follows the work of Robert Thorne, who stressed genetic relationships in his groupings. Thorne also mentioned that we don’t know enough about angiosperms to confidently classify them above the family level, and so this book only goes up to families.

Choice of Families and Family List

Zomlefer chose 130 families for this book, and attempted to capture a good balance of temperate and tropical, and woody and herbaceous families. Then there is a big ol’ list of all the families in the book. It covers about two and a half pages.

Family Treatments

I think? Family treatments are the detailed going-over of each family. It’s a bit unclear in the book and hard to google.

This section goes over the structure of the details that will be given about each family. There are several subsections, where Zomlefer describes what will be in each section further on in the book.

Family Diagnoses - Goes over the general structures of each family, without going over the many exceptions to each rule

Family Characterization - Goes over the general distinguishing features of each family, with emphasis on the genera in the US

Genera/species - Estimates for the total number of genera and species in each family.

Distribution - Worldwide distribution

Major Genera - The largest genera in the family. In cases where a family has six or fewer genera, this is wrapped into Genera/species.

U.S./Canadian Representatives - This covers major members of the family on Turtle Island. Includes all the continental US, Canada, Greenland, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

Economic Plants and Products - Includes the most economically important members of a family, like poisons, food, medicines, and weeds

Commentary - The content of this section will vary, as it’s a discussion of the important and interesting features of a family. Pollination is mentioned consistently. This is also where the "many exceptions to each rule" mentioned in Family Diagnoses will be listed

References Cited - All the references for each family

Tables

22 charts that appear throughout the book. They cover. Various things.

Illustrations and Plant Material

Zomlefer drew all the illustrations for this book herself. She goes over the difficulty in locating specimens and having them still be around later, due to mowing, construction, fire, etc. Original sketches were done with the help of a microscope, and she goes over the meanings of different types of lines and stippling.

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Wiktionary Daily Article 23rd August 2021 Edvard August Vainio (1853–1929) was a Finnish lichenologist. His early works on the lichens of Lapland, his three-volume monograph on the lichen genus Cladonia, and, in particular, his study of the classification and form and structure of lichens in Brazil made Vainio renowned internationally. Vainio's earliest works dealt with phytogeography—elucidating and enumerating  flora and its distribution—in the Finnish language. In these publications he demonstrated an attention to detail and thoroughness that became characteristic of his later work. Vainio described about 1700 new taxa, and published more than 100 scientific works. He made significant scientific collections of lichens, and while a herbarium curator at the University of Helsinki and the University of Turku he catalogued and processed other collections from all over the world. He has been called the Father of Brazilian Lichenology and the Grand Old Man of Lichenology. Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_August_Vainio 

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Janaki Ammal.

Janaki Ammal Edavalath Kakkat (4 November 1897 – 7 February 1984) was an Anglo-Indian botanist who worked on plant breeding, cytogenetics and phytogeography. Her most notable work involved studies on sugarcane and the eggplant (brinjal). She also worked on the cytogenetics of a range of plants and co-authored the Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants (1945) with C.D. Darlington. She took an interest in ethnobotany and in plants of medicinal and economic value from the rain forests of Kerala, India. She was awarded a Padma Shri by the Indian government in 1977.

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Wikipedia article of the day for August 23, 2021

The Wikipedia article of the day for August 23, 2021 is Edvard August Vainio. Edvard August Vainio (1853–1929) was a Finnish lichenologist. His early works on the lichens of Lapland, his three-volume monograph on the lichen genus Cladonia, and, in particular, his study of the classification and form and structure of lichens in Brazil made Vainio renowned internationally. Vainio's earliest works dealt with phytogeography—elucidating and enumerating flora and its distribution—in the Finnish language. In these publications he demonstrated an attention to detail and thoroughness that became characteristic of his later work. Vainio described about 1700 new taxa, and published more than 100 scientific works. He made significant scientific collections of lichens, and while a herbarium curator at the University of Helsinki and the University of Turku he catalogued and processed other collections from all over the world. He has been called the Father of Brazilian Lichenology and the Grand Old Man of Lichenology.

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The Wikipedia article of the day for August 23, 2021 is Edvard August Vainio. Edvard August Vainio (1853–1929) was a Finnish lichenologist. His early works on the lichens of Lapland, his three-volume monograph on the lichen genus Cladonia, and, in particular, his study of the classification and form and structure of lichens in Brazil made Vainio renowned internationally. Vainio's earliest works dealt with phytogeography—elucidating and enumerating flora and its distribution—in the Finnish language. In these publications he demonstrated an attention to detail and thoroughness that became characteristic of his later work. Vainio described about 1700 new taxa, and published more than 100 scientific works. He made significant scientific collections of lichens, and while a herbarium curator at the University of Helsinki and the University of Turku he catalogued and processed other collections from all over the world. He has been called the Father of Brazilian Lichenology and the Grand Old Man of Lichenology.

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Grad student navigating water flows and algae woes

Rising up in Gainesville and gliding via Florida’s rivers as a kayak information, Kacy Rodriguez has at all times been drawn to water. Spending the summers exploring the luxurious rainforests of El Yunque Nationwide Forest within the mountains of Puerto Rico and swimming in Mosquito Bay, the brightest bioluminescent bay on the planet, solely strengthened that affinity.

A direct Taíno descendant, Kacy Rodriguez carries the religious vitality drawn from nature into her analysis as a water warrior. Photograph: Katy Hennig/FGCU

“Ever since I can bear in mind I’ve at all times needed to be outdoors, whether or not that was right here in Florida or in Puerto Rico,” Rodriguez says. “The best possible reminiscences that I’ve are going out to my nice grandfather’s permaculture backyard and working round, hiding underneath the leaves when it rains.”

Obsessed with all elements of water analysis, environmental science graduate pupil Rodriguez discovered her approach to The Water College at Florida Gulf Coast College via algae. A direct Taíno descendant, she carries the religious vitality drawn from nature into her analysis as a water warrior.

“My Taíno ancestors felt that it was a religious connection to be round these bioluminescent bays.” Rodriguez says that the algae, or dinoflagellates, that create the bioluminescence is dissipating partly resulting from air pollution, giant storms and hurricanes and impressed her to concentrate on studying extra to preserve and reinvigorate the paranormal bays. “I really feel it’s nonetheless a sacred place for me. The supreme goddess, Atabey, can be the goddess of contemporary water, which is analogous to the work that I’m doing.”

After finishing her undergraduate research in coastal environmental science at Flagler Faculty in St. Augustine, she set her sights on charting a analysis path that may broaden her scope of research in freshwater algae and the interconnected nature of water well being and the atmosphere.  Whereas exploring choices to pursue a grasp’s diploma, Rodriguez stored Florida within the foreground whereas on the lookout for connections to school advisors.

“I got here throughout Dr. Barry Rosen. I noticed that he had a really broad resume of working with completely different companies, working with several types of algae. I believed that was actually cool as a result of I used to be excited by algae however didn’t know what specific vogue or side that I needed to work with them in.”

Drawn to the college for comparable causes, Rosen arrived at FGCU in 2019 as a professor within the Division of Ecology and Environmental Research, and introduced voluminous expertise working with universities and companies throughout the state and nation.

A number one skilled in figuring out freshwater algae, Rosen emphasizes the advantages of graduate and undergraduate college students working synergistically collectively to conduct analysis. He notes that Rodriguez is concerned in almost all the analysis grants which have come into the lab this final 12 months. “Within the lab, Kacy has taken the lead on working via the strategies for toxin gene detection, coaching a number of undergraduates on this effort,” Rosen says.

Rosen’s lab works with phytogeography or figuring out algae via photographing microscopic slices of the samples. Photograph: Barry Rosen/FGCU

Along with learning myriad elements of water and environmental analysis via The Water College, together with a scientific scuba diving class, Rodriguez is focusing her thesis work on the seasonality of algae and toxins in Lake Trafford.

The continuing restoration effort to revive the well being of the lake east of Estero consists of measuring nutrient ranges and modifying seagrass progress. Rodriguez is measuring the toxicity ranges of assorted varieties of algae that develop within the lake over time to assemble information to tell about wholesome environments to swim and fish.

With the array of algae analysis being carried out within the lab, the objective is to find out which sort of algae are producing the toxins, establishing toxin profiles and measuring the variants, comparable to seasonality and turbidity, that impact the expansion and manufacturing of several types of algae. This could permit scientists to detect, deter and develop options for future impacts of poisonous algal blooms.

The inspiration for pursuing information in a area that may assist to tell, educate and encourage others is why Rodriguez selected the water path. As a laboratory assistant in Rosen’s lab, Rodriguez has the chance to show others whereas she continues to study. “Kacy is sort of a sponge, absorbing and studying after which sharing the information with fellow researchers,” Rosen says. “I really feel very lucky to have Kacy as a graduate pupil and revel in her enthusiasm and dedication.”

Rodriguez particulars how her dedication for safeguarding the atmosphere was impressed by a movie she noticed in the El Yunque National Forest museum as a toddler – the story of the iguaca, or Puerto Rican parrot, and the efforts that conservationists contributed.

Rodriguez participated in a scientific scuba diving class as a part of her work at FGCU.

“They’d solely about 40 birds left within the wild,” Rodriguez says. “They had been capable of breed them in captivity and produce the numbers again up so that they wouldn’t be extinct and so they continued to populate out within the wild.”

Rodriguez says this modified her perspective and steered her journey towards conservation. “I believed this was a really inspiring story as a result of many of the issues that I had heard concerning the atmosphere as much as that time had been doom and gloom – that all the rainforests had been being destroyed and I don’t know what to do about it personally.”

That zeal pours into understanding how dangerous algal blooms develop and figuring out triggers that trigger catastrophic injury to pure environments.

Since new lab strategies for discovery are developed fluidly, Rodriguez says that the vary of science experience converges with a objective for bringing sampling strategies into the sector. This could permit researchers to activate the algae progress cycle earlier to find out what toxins could happen, how extreme they could develop into and what potential impacts they could have on human well being.

Scientific diving rounds out the course curriculum, enhancing Rodriguez’ curiosity for exploring and photographing Florida underwater environments and dealing with FGCU researchers to guard them.

Sharing scientific imagery to encourage and assist to coach the neighborhood about conservation attracts curiosity and creates change. “I feel that visuals are actually vital to assist talk completely different data,” Rodriguez says. “A whole lot of instances if folks can’t see one thing they aren’t going to care about it. If there’s a manner that we will carry the knowledge that we have now as scientists out to the world and actually get these impactful adjustments to occur then I feel that we have now hope.”

Video by Katy Hennig/FGCU

Tags: algae, Barry Rosen, fgcu, florida gulf coast university, marine science

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In 1990, F. Dowsett-Lemaire noted that fewer than 30 sq. km of lowland rain forest remained in Malawi [1] at that time. This is Malosa Mountain today (pictures), which at one time covered 8600 hectares.  Dowsett-Lemaire would cry to see what remains today.  Mzoma Ngulube would weep. Seyani would weep. Hassam Patel would weep. Many great forest researchers would weep. I weeped: on tree stump, i tried to count the tree rings - it was over 80 rings.  It could probably have lasted 100 more.  Malosa Mountain lies next to her sister mountain, Zomba.  It is “one of a series of isolated montane habitats which extend from north to south in Malawi” [2]. In a forest study by Moyo, et al. (2016), the “trees planted by the Forestry Department and other institutions in Nkanya-Lusewa river hotspot in Zomba-Malosa forest reserve in Domasi area in Malawi have not been surviving because villagers have been defiantly encroaching the forest reserve and this has led to many problems such as intermittent piped water supply in dry season” [3].  In their study, Moyo et al. (2016) noted “most respondents (28%) indicated that yearly tree planting must fully involve the community and that garden owners must provide post-planting care (19%) in their prohibited gardens” [3]. Additionally, “most villagers (96.1%) are willing to participate in forestry activities as long as their views are appreciated while 3.4% of them indicated unwillingness because they are busy with personal work, are aged and/or sickly” [3]. Now, let’s get to work, let protect the remain patched from total obliteration.  

[1] Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1990). The Flora and Phytogeography of the Evergreen Forests of Malawi. II: Lowland Forests. Bulletin Du Jardin Botanique National De Belgique / Bulletin Van De National Plantentuin Van België, 60(1/2), 9-71. doi:10.2307/3668330

[2] Happold, D., & Happold, M. (1987). Small Mammals in Pine Plantations and Natural Habitats on Zomba Plateau, Malawi. Journal of Applied Ecology, 24(2), 353-367. doi:10.2307/2403880

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