The effects of enhanced UV-B radiation were investigated in the carnivorous plant Pinguicula vulgaris in a field experiment performed in Abisko, North Sweden (68 ⚬ 21' N, 18 ⚬ 49' E, 380 m above sea ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract When resource availability changes frequently and unpredictably, natural selection favors flexible resource allocation; however, such ...

Companion volume to: Pinguicula of the temperate north / Aymeric Roccia [and eight others] ; edited by Alastair S. Robinson. Poole, Dorset, England : Redfern Natural History Productions, [2016].

EVERYONE who is interested in agriculture is aware that liver-fluke or sheep-rot is popularly associated with one or another of our common plants. Halliwell gives “sheep-killing” as a name for “the ...

On a bright, sunny day in mid-June, a friend and I strolled on the Lower Loop trail at Eaglecrest. Out in the meadows, we found the white flowers of starflower and three-leaf goldthread; long-leaf and ...

Carnivorous or insectivorous plants trap and digest insects and other small animals for nutrients. The habitat of most of these plants are in nutrient-poor soil conditions, which is why they rely on ...

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That is a woodlouse spider and the abdomen is its natural shape and colour, not eggs. It hunts by night and has huge fangs to capture woodlice. I was walking on a marshy hillside in west Wicklow and ...

THE series of botanical plates illustrating Japanese vegetation, of which the two sets under notice are late numbers, are phototype reproductions illustrating plant-landscapes and a few cultivated ...