R.O. Moffett, 1994, Rhus longispina and Rhus pterota, two hitherto confused South African shrubs,South African Journal of Botany, 60, 43-49, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0254-6299(16)30659-7
Comparison of diagnostic characters of Rhus longispina and R. pterota
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R.l - Oblate, ellipsoid 3.5 X 2.3 - 6.8 X 4.7 mm, chestnutbrown, drying dark brown; resinous juice and dry drupes, astringent...
Дождливая погода не помешала алматинцам внести достойный вклад в Сity Nature Challenge 2024 года. Хотя, как мне известно, кое-кого и демотивировала. Но не думаю, что таких было много. Подробнее об итогах первого в Казахстане CNC предлагаю поговорить 8 мая. Приглашаются участники, сделавшие во время биоблица более 10 наблюдений, а также организаторы и партнеры. Прошу заполнить небольшую анкетку, она внизу.
Привіт, айнатівці.
Настав час завантажити усі спостереження, які були зроблені 26-29 квітня, та долучитися до визначення спостережень, які зробили інші.
Пропозиції такі:
🔸 Кличте експерта на допомогу.
🔸 Обговорюйте найпроблемніші знахідки в нашій групі (сподіваюсь, ви всі до неї підключилися. Якщо ні - пишіть!)
🔸 Стежте за визначенням своїх спостережень та коментарями до них.
🔸 Ми все ще збираємо цікаві знахідки для інфографіки від організаторів глобального C...
Welcome to the Witherley and Atterton Flora and Fauna project.
This projecty has been set up to record observations and locations of plants and animals in our villages. This will help us to understand the habitats and biodiversity that we have here and see any trends that may be apparent over time. The project also aims to increase the nature connection of the local community.
Happy observing!
We've had a big jump in Odonata numbers over the last week.
April is officially our best survey April. Nearly 900 research grade observations, 30 species, 120+ contributors. There will be several new County Records and at least a couple new Early Flight dates.
Only 13 counties did not have observations reported. See the map below. 2024 counties are the darkest. We only have three ciunties now with no April records.
I've been seeing many great observations come in for the CNC so keep up the good work! We are now in the upload and ID phase, which means observations can still be uploaded as long as they were taken from Friday to Monday (April 26-29). Also, if you are able to, provide taxonomic identifications to as many observations as you can. The goal is to make most of the observations "Research Grade" so that they are usable for scientific research. We have until May 5th to upload and ID. Results ...
Thank you everyone for helping with the huge Identification effort underway. If you can spare any time, please join in and help with identifications.
Special thanks to our heavy duty identifiers. You can see who they are here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-southern-africa?tab=identifiers
What a City Nature Challenge! The campus challenge is quite competitive this year with an amazing number of participants and observations!!
The four day observation period is over. However, if you have any photos in your camera or phone that are not uploaded, we have until Sunday night to finish the upload process. Results will be official on Monday May 6th, you can follow the Campus Challenge project
What a City Nature Challenge! The campus challenge is quite competitive this year with an amazing number of participants and observations!!
The four day observation period is over. However, if you have any photos in your camera or phone that are not uploaded, we have until Sunday night to finish the upload process. Results will be official on Monday May 6th, you can follow the Campus Challenge project
What a City Nature Challenge! The campus challenge is quite competitive this year with an amazing number of participants and observations!!
The four day observation period is over. However, if you have any photos in your camera or phone that are not uploaded, we have until Sunday night to finish the upload process. Results will be official on Monday May 6th, you can follow the Campus Challenge project
What a City Nature Challenge! The campus challenge is quite competitive this year with an amazing number of participants and observations!!
The four day observation period is over. However, if you have any photos in your camera or phone that are not uploaded, we have until Sunday night to finish the upload process. Results will be official on Monday May 6th, you can follow the Campus Challenge project
What a City Nature Challenge! The campus challenge is quite competitive this year with an amazing number of participants and observations!!
The four day observation period is over. However, if you have any photos in your camera or phone that are not uploaded, we have until Sunday night to finish the upload process. Results will be official on Monday May 6th, you can follow the Campus Challenge project
Look closely at the stem of Uvularia puberula you will notice fine hairs that are not present in U. sessilifolia. Secondly, if you look at the interior of the petals of U. sessifolia you will notice distinct bumps. A third, non-diagnositic characteristic has to do with how much the leaves tend to unfurl before flowering. U. puberula tend to flower when the leaves look just like those seen here (still folded), whereas the leaves of U. sessiofolia are more open. ....
Hi all,
Thank you so much to everyone who has taken part in the City Nature Challenge so far, the weekend was a huge success and the increase in observations from last year has been incredible! So far we have 4326 observations, 903 species, 75 observers and 228 identifiers, compared to 2667 observations, 692 species, 80 observers and 335 identifiers last year. This has contributed to a global total of over 2.1 million observations so far!
But this isn't the end of the Ci...
In English below
Skaba käy kuumana, kun kasvit ja hyönteiset alkavat tulla esiin, joten onkin hyvä kerrata vielä mitkä havainnot lasketaan pisteiksi skabassa.
Aiemmin puhuin sekaisin tutkimustasolle päässeistä havainnoista ja lajimäärästä, mutta olen nyt oppinut että nämä eivät aina kulje käsi kädessä. Hyväksytyn havainnon täytyy tosiaan päästä tutkimustasolle MUTTA havaittu laji täytyy kuitenkin määritellä lajilleen. Ainakin hyönteisissä ja sienissä havaintoja on viime a...
iNaturalist broke records this month thanks to hundreds of cities participating in the City Nature Challenge—so many that there are separate projects for North & South America and
Hi Everyone,
A recent study, Layton & Wilson 2024, has split Chromolaichma sedna (Marcus & Marcus, 1967):
C. sedna: eastern Pacific
C. hemera: western Atlantic
More over, the authors discover ''extensive phylogeographic structure within C. hemera sp. nov. sensu lato, thereby refuting the hypothesis of a recent introduction'' and found ''significant rate heterogeneity among marine invertebrate genera that share a similar lifespan, reproductive mode and disp...
Bonjour,
Précisez vos disponibilités le lundi 6 et le mardi 7 mai pour notre réunion destinée à préparer les 6 prochains mois
Le formulaire est en ligne, pour y répondre il faut cliquer sur le lien suivant et préciser vos disponibilités :
https://framadate.org/Ba1ICT1X3NtFRAWS
-- Mai 2024
Soit lun. 6 à 10h30 ou 14h30 ou le mar. 7 à 10h30 ou 14h30
Vous pouvez diffuser ...
Hello everyone, it looks like you’ve compiled a nice total so far, we’re at 3,143 observations. Regrettably, I’ve had to be away this year so couldn’t contribute. However, I’ve been doing some identifications when I could. Last year we hit a 70% research grade level, which was pretty good. As far as I could tell, we won the CNC in that measurement (but there’s no recognition for that in the CNC)! We have a ways to go to meet that again, so it’s worth going through the identify model...
The observations continue to trickle in and the identifications continue to arrive. We added nearly 100 observations today. Laura Sare bumped me from the top spot with 440 observations. Again, I'm happy to cede top spot, particularly to such a worthy "opponent." Our species count is currently at 1,418, just a few over last night's 1,409. That number is going to vary, probably staying in that neighborhood, as IDs are refined and changed over the next few days. Yesterday's post shoul...
I have updated the range map for Uta stansburiana and the five continental subspecies based on some recent work in the field the past couple years. The map can be found as this observation. Some areas of these distributions are still poorly understood, such as much of the non-Baja distribution in Mexico (especially at the subspecific level) and where U.s.elegans, U.s.nevadensis, and ...
If you look at this project as of now, the area covered is much too big, as I can't get the site to select such a small zone for the project, yet...
Join the San Gabriel Mountains Chapter of the California Native Plant Society and the Wildland Weed Warriors on Saturday, May 4, from 8:30 to noon as we take a serious dive into the plants and animals of Elsmere Canyon. Help us add as many observations as we can.
A shout out to everyone taking the time to upload observations and especially all you dedicated folks helping with the IDs!
By the way, if you're checking in on the Metro Vancouver Regional project and how we're doing nationally, Metro is neck and neck with Montreal (12,884 to 12,900 respectively)! And we're well ahead of Calgary Metro Region and the GTA.
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Registro realizado por orlandomontes , Especie (Bombus dahlbomii), 13 de Enero de 2018, Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile. Este es un registro excepcional del Moscardón, esta especie, ya se encuentra extinta en este lugar. Ha sido re...
This is our 4th year and to date we have counted 1854 butterflies, Please come out and help us increase our count numbers.
Butterfly counts are a way to monitor butterfly populations, raise public awareness and spend some time with other butterfly enthusiast. Learn about local parks and nature areas.
Butterfly counts are a good way to gauge the health of our gardens and our local environment for pollinators to ensure sustainable food sourcing in our area. The data colle...
Date: 5/29/2024
Start Time: 5:04 pm
End Time: 6:45 pm
Location: North end, Downtown Burlington
Weather: In the mid 60s, sunny, low winds
Habitat: Urbanized, trees and shrubs in the area include Sugar maple, American elm, and box elder. Flowers in the area including daffodils, tulips, sweet violets, and forsythia.
This is our 4th year and to date we have counted 1854 butterflies, Please come out and help us increase our count numbers.
Butterfly counts are a way to monitor butterfly populations, raise public awareness and spend some time with other butterfly enthusiast. Learn about local parks and nature areas.
Butterfly counts are a good way to gauge the health of our gardens and our local environment for pollinators to ensure sustainable food sourcing in our area. The data colle...
We have lift-off! (bzzzz.....)
It's been quite a month on the hoverfly front. Last month I predicted we might get 2,500-3,000 new uploads in April (the previous record for April being 1,824). We actually had nearly 3,800! Only July and August last year have ever had more. Nearly 1,200 of these were observed during the four days of the City Nature Challenge (CNC). The identification window for the CNC ends on Sunday. More comments on that below.
I'm not going to pre...
Hi everyone,
Hope you've had a great City Nature Challenge so far! Although the observation period ended on Monday, many users are still uploading photos and audio captured during the observation period of the CNC. This means our numbers are still going up! We have the potential to pass several cities above us as more identifications and observations are added. If you have expertise identifying organisms in South Florida, whether you specialize in bird ID, botany, fish, or someth...
