Rushabh Chaudhari.

Botanist from India 🌿

[Chandrashekhar Dhage @cbdhage]

#PROJECTUPDATE #MCGM Applied for forest clearance for proposed Gargai drinking water dam for Mumbai city.
proposed Gargai dam to meet the present and near future drinking water requirements of the Mumbai city.
it will supply 440 MLD water .cost estimated around 3200 cr

[Chandrashekhar Dhage @cbdhage]

#inprojectupdate MCGM applied for wild life clearance for proposed Gargai Dam Project in year 2018. The dam will fulfill 440 MLD water requirement of Mumbai region. .The proposal resubmitted in June 2020.
COST -3105 cr.

[Mid Day @mid_day]

Conservationists warn Tansa dam project will submerge UNESCO-listed forest and disrupt a vital wildlife corridor.
The Maharashtra government has prioritised the Gargai dam project, but wildlife conservationists warn it will be disastrous, submerging over three lakh trees and causing irreversible ecological damage.

By: @ranjeetnature

Read more: https://t.co/d3Rdp5KlT9

#GargaiDam #wildlife #brihanmumbaimunicipalcorporation #mumbainews #mumbai

[Anthony Ricciardi @EcoInvasions]

"We propose...that insect invasions are being driven by the proliferation of nonnative plants, which create niches for insect specialists and facilitate their establishment outside their native ranges where their hosts are planted or are invasive." https://t.co/6U2t96NwUi

[Jose Fedriani Laffitte @FedrianiJose]

JUST PUBLISHED:
What time of the day do ripe fruits drop to the ground?
Who cares?
The answers in this intriguing work led by Pedro Garrote:
https://t.co/rvZlkzflM4

[Axel Dalberg Poulsen @AxelGinger]

#GingerPlantOfTheWeek is #Cyphostigma pulchellum endemic in #SriLanka recently typified in our TAXON paper (https://t.co/u6lzPPJvQi). This unusual ginger has flowers where the appendage of the anther is larger and more showy than the lip. Pollinator? Photo: Sindoopa Seneviratne.

[Dustin Wolkis @DustinWolkis]

Out now in @Botanical_'s APPS with Bruce Baldwin & @fawcett_susan;

"Embryo excision in Compositae, with implications for combating biodiversity loss"

🌱We describe and illustrate a detailed method of embryo excision which can aid conservation efforts.

https://t.co/9qnOTKGtFa

[Trends in Ecology & Evolution @Trends_Ecol_Evo]

Online now: Life histories are not just fast or slow https://t.co/80u4cvMYQw

[Glenn Benson FLS 🦤🪴🍄🦠🧫 @talloaksfrom]

Just published in English, a history of the #vasculum. It includes the vasculum used by Charles Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle, which is now in the collection of the @LinneanSociety

Buy the book through https://t.co/8rRrBvDL3d

[International Association for Plant Taxonomy IAPT @iaptglobal]

Check out the June/2024 issue of TAXON [73(3)]! 🌸🌴🍄
https://t.co/3h2Q4hPlaF

[Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society @BotJLinnSoc]

What is a stipule? Variably described as simply an outgrowth or an independent organ comparable to leaves, they're important for plant #Taxonomy and ID! Read this months #EditorsChoice to find out more about them!
https://t.co/PV9lTWedUK
@LinneanSociety @OxfordJournals

[Juan Antonio Hernández-Agüero @HernandezAguer]

Riva et al., 2024 - Ecology Letters - Principles for area-based biodiversity conservation
https://t.co/KT9xoEgG6S

[Rushabh Chaudhari. @Rushabh911]

@joana_meier @saaaakeeeet

[mark belan | science illustrator + info designer @markabelan]

Fruit of the Womb: A Botanical Classification of Fruit
🍇🍓🍒🥑🍊🍐🥥🍍🫐

#fruit #infographic #art #science #carpology #vizscicomm #graphicdesign #data #illustration #botany

[Science at the Natural History Museum @NHM_Science]

Families of Wasps -we are very pleased to see the new book from our colleague @BroadGavin with Simon van Noort. https://t.co/ROePjt0l78

[Nature Communications @NatureComms]

It is unclear why flying insects congregate around artificial light sources. Fabian et al. use high-speed videography & motion-capture, finding that insects fly perpendicular to light sources due to a disruption of the dorsal light response.
@samueltfabian
https://t.co/VSZMm5guVi

[Chris Thorogood @thorogoodchris1]

Pathless Forest officially exists! This is a story about my life-long passion for a plant – a plant in peril – and together with my co-workers in Southeast Asia, our efforts to save it. A lot of love went into this one. I hope you like it x

[Jack Ashby @JackDAshby]

The To Read Pile just got a lot bigger, after this delivery from @UChicagoPress.📚 Can't wait to get stuck into these - what a cracking bunch of natural history books!
There are lessons here in whether different design decisions are likely to make you want to pick them up.