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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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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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Let’s face it—when you think of charismatic megaflora, chances are you have in mind something majestic, like a towering Sequoia, or something ancient, like a Joshua tree. But a plant with a four-foot stalk that smells like a cross between rotting stinky cheese and animal feces? This week’s podcast takes us to a sacred island off the coast of Madagascar, where an intrepid botanist braved fever and worse to bring a specimen of this unlikely botanical superstar back alive. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports. Image Credit: Amorphophallus Sp., Greg Wahlert
read moreDuration: 5:29Published: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:00:44 +0000
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Species: Encephalartos concinnus R.A. Dyer & I. Verd. Date: 2006-03-17 Location: Mwenezi River Valley, Mberengwa CL Habitat:
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Species: Iphigenia oliveri Engl. Date: 2012-01-07 Location: By the lodges, Lake Kyle Recreational Park Habitat: In thin soil over rocks
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Species: Satyrium anomalum Schltr. Date: 2012-02-08 Location: Kopje Tops, Mavhuradonha Wilderness Area Habitat: Open Miombo woodland
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Species: Leucospermum saxosum S. Moore Date: 0000-00-00 Location: Chikukwa, lower Chimanimani Mts Habitat:
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Species: Maerua juncea Pax subsp. juncea Date: 2005-11-17 Location: Christon Bank Habitat: Termite mound in rocky Brachystegia boehmii woodland
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Species: Chamaecrista mimosoides (L.) Greene Date: 2011-12-27 Location: Road from Mt Selinda to Espungabera border post Habitat: Roadside
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Species: Flemingia grahamiana Wight & Arn. Date: 2004-08-20 Location: Cecil Kop Nature Reserve, Mutare Habitat: Miombo woodland
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Species: Clutia paxii Knauf ex Pax Date: 2004-07-18 Location: Near summit plateau Castle Beaon, Vumba Habitat: Margin of ericoid scrub
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Species: Sida cordifolia L. subsp. maculata (Cav.) Marais Date: 2010-01-06 Location: By road to Hwange NP, Main Camp. Habitat: Grassy area with clumps of trees by a roadside pan
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Species: Psidium cattleianum Sabine Date: 2011-12-25 Location: Near Chalet 2, Chirinda Forest Habitat: In disturbed forest clearing
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Species: Tacazzea apiculata Oliv. Date: 2008-01-24 Location: Livingstone: within the grounds of the Maramba Lodge, climbing over entrance to reception and in thicket along the river Habitat: Well watered and shady area
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Species: Acrotome inflata Benth. Date: 2006-02-15 Location: On the airstrip, Malilangwe Habitat: Along track
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Species: Dicerocaryum eriocarpum (Decne.) Abels Date: 2010-01-06 Location: Near railway line by road to Hwange NP, Main Camp Habitat: Open sandy ground
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Species: Hymenodictyon floribundum (Hochst. & Steud.) B. L. Rob. Date: 2011-01-04 Location: Along road from Small Bridge to Penhalonga Habitat: Shallow soil crevice on seepage rock surface in Brachystegia woodland
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Species: Craterocapsa tarsodes Hilliard & B.L. Burtt Date: 2004-02-07 Location: Mt Nyangani Habitat: In shallow soil in rocky montane grassland.
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Species: Senecio purpureus L. Date: 2005-02-12 Location: Mt Rukotso, Nyanga Habitat:
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Species: Acacia torrei Brenan Date: 2007-03-08 Location: Mukombeze River, northern Park boundary, Gorongosa National Park Habitat: Wooded grassland on floodplain
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Australian freshwater, Duration 8 seconds
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South Pacific Ocean, Duration 11 seconds
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Coral Sea, Duration 24 seconds
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Eastern Pacific Ocean, Duration 17 seconds, Shot includes Conolophus subcristatus (Galapagos land iguana)