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Design & Intelligence Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology
VERA
a simplified model of a food web containing Byrsonima arthropoda.
VISIT VERA to learn more about the modeling tool and how to run simulations of your own
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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Joanne Pei-Chih Tan, Sheh May Tam, Ruth Kiew
Phytokeys
Figure 1.
Watercolour painting of Begoniarajah of an original wild-collected plant grown in the Botanic Gardens, Singapore. (Reproduced with permission of the Singapore Botanic Gardens)
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In this episode of CreatureCast, the strangler fig first avoids having to sprout in the dark understory of the rainforest by growing in the tops of the trees closer to the sun, and then avoids getting too dehydrated up there by dropping roots to the forest floor. Finally it grows back up to the top of the tree, surrounding and strangling the host tree on the way, taking advantage of the tree's structural integrity to support its own hollow body.Narration by Matt Ogburn of the Edwards lab at Brown University. Artwork and editing by Sophia Tintori. Original score by Amil Byleckie. This video was funded by the National Science Foundation grant # IOS-08432321 and is release under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. Check out CreatureCast.org for more stories about animals, plants and fungi.
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In a large greenhouse at the
Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri, there grows a slender sapling of Cinchona pubescens, a tree that has played a remarkable role in human history. Journeying to this artificial tropical forest under glass, Ari Daniel Shapiro asks curators Carmen Ulloa Ulloa and Charlotte Taylor just what makes this famous “fever tree” special.
read moreDuration: 5:07Published: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:04:41 +0000
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Species: Ipomoea parasitica (Kunth) G. Don Date: 2008-04-20 Location: Along the main road from Livingstone to the Zimbabwe border just before the Maramba river bridge on the left (east) travelling south from Livingstone Habitat: Roadside
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Species: Evolvulus nummularius (L.) L. Date: 2006-11-08 Location: Chitengo Camp, Gorongosa National Park Habitat: Weed in lawn
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Species: Populus × canescens (Aiton) Sm. Date: 2004-05-14 Location: Greystone Park NP, Harare Habitat: In marshy area below dam wall
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Species: Leucospermum saxosum S. Moore Date: 0000-00-00 Location: Chikukwa, lower Chimanimani Mts Habitat:
