Though a goldmine for the curious botanist, Harewood Plains is also an area under threat — from damage caused by off-road dirt bikes, ATVs and tree poaching — in part because so little is still known about it.

https://thediscourse.ca/nanaimo/local-environmentalists-unite-to-protect-harewood-plains

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> Plants do not suffer in silence. Instead, when thirsty or stressed, plants make “airborne sounds,” according to a study published today in Cell.
> Plants that need water or have recently had their stems cut produce up to roughly 35 sounds per hour, the authors found. But well-hydrated and uncut plants are much quieter, making only about one sound per hour.
> The reason you have probably never heard a thirsty plant make noise is that the sounds are ultrasonic — about 20–100 kilohertz. That means they are so high-pitched that very few humans could hear them. Some animals, however, probably can. Bats, mice and moths could potentially live in a world filled with the sounds of plants, and previous work by the same team has found that plants respond to sounds made by animals, too.

Source (including audio recordings!!): https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00890-9

#plants #plantstudies #nature

Too deep into my book project to write anything else right now, but the new Disney movie "Strange World" reminds me of my sad neglected blog. I should do a Christmas or New Year's post on paedagogical plants in recent movies. Or The Moral of the Plant Story.

#plantStudies #Lcps #plants #neglectedWriting

My awesome plant studies colleague Joela Jacobs has published an exciting article on plant sexuality and human-plant-interactions (real and imagined):

"These Lusting, Incestous, Perverse Creatures": A Phytopoetic History of Plants and Sexuality

https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/14/3/602/319760/These-Lusting-Incestuous-Perverse-Creatures-A?s=09

#PlantStudies #Plants #LCPS @litstudies #EnvironmentalHumanities #envhum

#introduction into:

#nicheconstruction
#EES
#basalcognition
#autopoiesis
#symbiosis
#systemsthinking
#plantstudies
#philosophyofbiology
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#ecoevodevo
#evodevo
#consciousness

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#foraging