Digital records of preserved plants and animals change how scientists explore the world
There’s a whole world behind the scenes at natural history museums that most people never see. Museum collections house millions…
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Pamela Soltis named president of American Society of Plant Taxonomists
Florida Museum of Natural History curator and distinguished professor Pamela Soltis has been elected to serve as president of the…
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Why Science? Plant Evolutionary Genetics
University of Florida plant evolutionary geneticist Doug Soltis explains how he became interested in studying biodiversity and the research he…
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Plant lineage points to different evolutionary playbook for temperate species
An ancient, cosmopolitan lineage of plants is shaking up scientists’ understanding of how quickly species evolve in temperate ecosystems and…
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Florida Museum students awarded NSF graduate fellowships
Three Florida Museum of Natural History doctoral students have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, a competitive funding…
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Remembering botanist Mark Whitten
The Florida Museum is saddened to announce the sudden death of botanist Mark Whitten. Whitten was well known for his…
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Plants’ drought alert system has unlikely evolutionary origin: underwater algae
Plants’ water-to-land leap marks one of the most important milestones in the evolution of life on Earth. But how plants…
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Scientists: ‘Time is ripe’ to use big data for planet-sized plant questions
A group of Florida Museum of Natural History scientists has issued a “call to action” to use big data to…
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Pamela Soltis joins National Academies committee on future of biological collections
University of Florida plant biologist Pamela Soltis has been appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee…
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Museum biologist joins ‘moonshot’ project to sequence DNA of all eukaryotes
Florida Museum of Natural History plant biologist Pam Soltis is part of a 24-member team that aims to sequence the…
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