Historic New Guinea high plant diversity study also highlights need for more local botanists

On the day I turned another year older (5th August 2020) the scientific community also gave me another, and bigger reason, to celebrate that day. For the first time from its initial settlement by our ancestors some 50 000 years ago, and since scientific explorations began on the island of New Guinea by early Europeans

Plants invest more in chemical defense at higher altitudes, PNG study finds

Contrary to the idea that plants are immobile and therefore defenseless against animals and fungi that feed on them, they have long developed a vast arsenal of physical and chemical defense mechanisms to protect them wherever they grow. In fact, it is well-known among ecologists that the different abilities of plants to protect themselves from