Seeing the forest for the trees: Tree diversity is directly correlated with productivity in eastern U.S. forests
When scientists and policymakers make tough calls on which areas to prioritize for conservation, biodiversity is often their top consideration….
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Butterfly tree of life reveals an origin in North America
About 100 million years ago, a group of trendsetting moths started flying during the day rather than at night, taking…
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McCarty Woods Restoration team receives UF Champions for Change award
The University of Florida’s Office of Sustainability and the Healthy Gators Coalition recognized seven individuals and groups for the annual…
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Florida Museum graduate students receive NSF GRFP award, honorable mentions
The National Science Foundation has announced the recipients and honorable mentions of its 2023 Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards, which…
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Florida mints radiated as peninsula sank and resurfaced during ice ages
During the ice ages of the Pleistocene, the Florida peninsula regularly expanded to twice its current size as glaciers grew…
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Ferns finally get a genome, revealing a history of DNA hoarding and kleptomania
Ferns are notorious for containing massive amounts of DNA and an excessively large number of chromosomes. Defying all expectations, a…
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Earth BioGenome Project enters new phase
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a global effort to map the genomes of all 1.8 million known species of plants,…
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Doug and Pam Soltis in top 1% of most highly cited scientists
Doug and Pam Soltis of the Florida Museum of Natural History were recognized last month as being in the top…
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DNA duplication linked to the origin and evolution of pine trees and their relatives
Plants are DNA hoarders. Adhering to the maxim of never throwing anything out that might be useful later, they often…
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Plant study challenges tropics’ reputation as site of modern evolutionary innovation
In a surprise twist, a major group of flowering plants is evolving twice as quickly in temperate zones as the…
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