Chris Humphries dies 6 Aug 2009 Influential botanist and conservation biologist Chris Humphries has died aged 62. Roberto Keller has more. Ecology and Biodiversity Systematics
Biology Tom Waits on Entomology 13 Nov 2009 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBkyaJqQ-50] Read More
Biology Natural classification 23 Jan 201423 Jan 2014 It occurs to me that I haven’t plugged my own book here. What a failure on my part! It was published in December, so it is really time I did so. In this book, Malte Ebach and I discuss a topic not often discussed in the philosophy of science: the… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity How many species of plant are there? 3 Jan 2011 It should be a simple question. After all, we have been describing, naming, and studying species of plants for 500 years, and the whole system of nomenclature and classification was developed in order to list plants. Estimate range widely, from 200,000 to nearly 300,000 or even 400,000 [also here] and… Read More