Botanist of the month- Joan Pino

Espores. La veu del Botànic

Interviews
<p><em>Prades Mountains aroused  <a href="http://www.creaf.cat/ca/personal/joan-pino-vilalta">Joan Pino</a>’s interest in nature. The great fires in these mountains from Tarragona during the 80’ make him pursue his vocation for Botany, specifically, the study of the distribution and dynamics of plant communities, as wells as their response to disturbances. He is an expert in landscape ecology, applied to both spatial planning and biodiversity conservation. Besides being professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, Spanish acronym), Pino is the Director of the Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications (<a href="http://www.creaf.cat/ca">CREAF,</a> Spanish acronym), with Severo Ochoa Recognition of Excellence. </em></p>

Botanist of the month- María José Sanz

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Interviews
<p><em>María José Sanz is deeply curious about the discovery of nature and biodiversity to extend scientific knowledge. But she is also committed to transferring knowledge to society and has a vocation for taking part in international organisations which work on climate change, development or sustainable food, among other fields. She is the director of the Basque Centre for Climate change (<a href="https://www.bc3research.org/">BC3</a>), after an intense career in institutions such as the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the FAO, involved in all kinds of global summits. However, she is rooted in the Faculty of Biological Sciences from the Universitat de València. In her PhD she studied the use of lichens as bioindicators of air quality. Although she has had great teachers, she always highlights the talent and scientific intuition of Millán Millán. He was promoter and director of the Mediterranean Centre for Environmental Studies (<a href="http://www.ceam.es/GVAceam/ceam_val/home.htm">Fundació CEAM</a>), the place where María José Sanz specialized in dynamics of air pollution and created her first research group. </em></p>

A new Valencian thyme hybrid

Espores. La veu del Botànic

ConservationPlantsResearch
<p><em>Researchers at the Jardí Botànic of the Universitat de València have discovered a new hybrid of the genus Thymus L. (Lamiaceae) from the eastern Iberian Peninsula. Specimens from this endemic Valencian thyme hybrid, Thymus × bolosii, were found in four different places of the “Sierra de la Safor”, between Valencia and Alicante. The conclusions of the research have been published in the journal “Flora Montiberica”</em></p>

A new Valencian “garrofó”, better adapted to climate change

Espores. La veu del Botànic

AgricultureBotanical GardensResearch
<p><em>Research carried out by the Jardí Botànic of the Universitat de València and the Conselleria d’Agricultura shows that seeds of the legume known as “pintat (painted, in English)”, Phaseolus lunatus L., are more tolerant to drought. </em></p>
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Seven plants that will help you understand Darwin

Jaime Güemes

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<p><em>On the 12<sup>th</sup> of February, to commemorate Charles Darwin’s birthday in 1809, Darwin Day is celebrated all around the world. The aim of it is to highlight the importance of his contributions to the advancement of knowledge and, specially, to the development of the theory of biological evolution by means of natural selection. Although his research about finches, barnacles or large vertebrate fossils may be better known, he also studied in detail plant diversity and adaptation, which were essential for the development of his work on The Origin of Species. </em></p>

The moment when plants transferred their genes to insects: a window to the Permian

Antonio Pla

Research
<p><em>Darwin and Mendel would have been fascinated by the precision</em> <em>of the evolutionary biology of this century, especially when it comes to answering the questions that underpin the complex evolutionary processes of organisms. Once again, plants are going to guide us to an amazing genomic journey that led to conclusions which would have been unthinkable twenty years ago. </em></p>
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A hotel with a garden for monarch butterflies

Carmen López Valiente

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<p><em>In the summer of 2018, I stayed with my family at the Hilton Chicago Oak Brook Hills Resort & Conference Center (Illinois, EEUU). Our big surprise was to see that in the hotel’s garden there was a small and curious place with a plaque that said: “Monarch Waystation”. Within minutes we understood what was going on: several monarch butterflies were fluttering around us. </em></p>
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Natural inspiration: make your own kokedama

BALADRE Crafting·Creativity

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<p><em>This time, Baladre Crafting-creativity introduces us to this handcrafted plant technique from the traditional Japanese culture to connect with nature and fill our home with green. Are you ready? Let’s get started!</em></p>
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Opening the senses and the windows to birds of the urban woodland

Pablo Vera García

Botanical GardensConservation
<p><em>What is that sound? That screeching sound coming from the neighbour’s aerial. And that one? It seems like someone is clapping from a tree at the wrong time. Hold on, I can see something moving and making a sound on the street among the bushes. Look, it is a tiny bird that sounds like boiling oil in a frying pan! In fact, all these are birds that we can find in our urban spaces and that now, more than ever, thanks to human inactivity, can be observed and discovered from our homes if we look carefully. Pablo Vera, from SEO/ Birdlife Valencia, shows us how to identify and enjoy them.</em></p>

Humboldt: the collections that never arrived… in Spain.

Jaime Güemes

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The artist Nuria Rodríguez wonders what is the reason for collecting every mountain, every island, every stone, every plant, every word, everything, again and again? I would answer that it is the only way to remember, to compare, to measure and, therefore, to learn.
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Crataegus-Monogyna

Calendar and plants: May, the flowers’ month

Daniel Climent Giner, Carles Martin Cantarino

EthnobotanyPlants
Daniel Climent joins Carles Martín in order to start a series dedicated to the relations between the holiday calendar and the ethnobotany. They start with the month of May, when the ancient considered one of the two seasons in which they divided the year began. Accompanying us to discover traditions and celebrations, such as the May Day flower tree, that go hand in hand with the floral explosion of the countryside at this time of the year.
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Calendar and plants: more flowers in the month of May

Daniel Climent Giner, Carles Martin Cantarino

Ethnobotany
This is the second chapter dedicated to the festive ethnobotany and the spring month <em>par excellence</em>. What happens when plants are related to the clash between different cultures and religions? Symbolism is striking: flowers are life, crosses are death. Goddesses, altars, floral devotion, poems, punished flowers, and new calendars. You can’t imagine how many things a simple petal floating in the spring air hides.
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