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This past semester in the Applied Plant Ecology course, I learnt a lot of about Wikipedia I did not know. The thought process I had coming into this course was that Wikipedia isn’t a website that you should use and all the information on that website is incorrect. Learning about how Wikipedia works and howContinue reading “Learning the In’s and Out’s of Wikipedia”

This blog posts are on bees! there’s a huge issue with the declining rate of bees and we all need to realize that we have to thank bees for the food we eat. Honeybees are known to do 80% of the world’s pollination, fruits, nuts and vegetables are all pollinated by bees. The declining inContinue reading “Save the Bees!”

This blog post will talk about a news article that was written by “The Ecologists” called “People ‘need connection with nature’”. This article talks about how many adults rarely listen to birdsongs or smell wildflowers, and it talks about how 7 out of 10 children never see butterflies or bees. Compared to people who regularlyContinue reading “The Ecologists: Connecting with Nature”

This blog post is going to further expand on the United Nations reports on Climate Change and how its critical to maintain the global temperature at a steady rate to allow fewer negative impacts on ecosystems, biodiversity, food security and more but mainly talk about coral reefs! Throughout this report, it goes in depth aboutContinue reading “United Nations Report: Increasing Temperature levels impacting Ecosystems – Specifically Coral Reefs”

Louisa Bolus was known for authoring more land plant species than any other female scientist, a total of 1, 494 species. She was born in Burgersdorp, South Africa in 1877 and passed 1970 in Cape town, South Africa. In 1903 H.M. Lousia Bolus started working for her uncle Harry Bolus and she was the herbariumContinue reading “Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus: Women in STEM”

Henry Cowles was a botanist and an ecological pioneer, and he was one of the most influenced educators in the study of plant communities. He was born in 1869 and developed an interest in plants at a very young age. He studied botany and geology; he went on to study ecology! He dealt with vegetationContinue reading “Henry Cowles”