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Crash Course Botany: Episode 8: Why Don’t These Plants Need Seeds? (Moss and Ferns)
In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic tree—bryophytes and seedless vascular plants, like mosses and ferns. These plants are the ...
Plants 'breathe' with millions of tiny mouths—lasers illuminate evolution of stomata behavior
Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...
Plants breathe with millions of tiny mouths. We used lasers to understand how this skill evolved
Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...
Moorland stability: Dominant species and biodiversity play crucial roles
Subalpine and boreal moorlands are ecosystems that contribute to climate stability by reducing excess carbon as well as ...
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An innovative approach to measuring microscopic changes in plant cells
A multidisciplinary team led by researchers at the Yale School of the Environment developed a new laser-based method for observing how plants adjust the pressure within their cells in response to the ...
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Untold Earth | Season 1, Episode 3 | You Aren’t Paying Enough Attention to Moss
(gentle music) - [Miles Berkey] Mosses are among a group of plants called Bryophyta. A Bryophyte is a plant that does not have the ability to transport water through its tissues. Therefore ...
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Stabilizing Japanese Moorlands: Species and Stability
Subalpine and boreal moorlands are ecosystems that contribute to climate stability by reducing excess carbon as well as acting to help regulate the ...
Greater Manchester could be about to get its first rainforest
Experts at the Woodland Trust say part of the Smithills estate, within the West Pennine moors, has many indicators of it being 'temperate rainforest' ...