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  1. When Did Our #Planet Really Begin to #Breathe? — Dating the First #Oxygen #Organisms: Medium

    Early #Bird, #Night #Owl or something else? Five #Patterns may define how we #Sleep : Sci Am

    A Total #SolarEclipse and the #Perseids #MeteorShower Will Share the #Sky in #August #2026 : Disc Mag

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  2. Flora (Organisms 🐞)

    Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora as in the terms gut flora or skin flora for purposes of specificity.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora

    #Flora #Habitat #Organisms #EcologyTerminology #BotanicalNomenclature

  3. Fauna (Organisms 🐞)

    Fauna is all the animal life present in a particular region or time. The corresponding terms for plants and fungi are flora and funga, respectively. Flora, fauna, funga and other forms of life are collectively referred to as biota. Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert fauna" o...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna

    #Fauna #Organisms #AnimalEcology #EcologyTerminology

  4. Flora (Organisms 🐞)

    Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora as in the terms gut flora or skin flora for purposes of specificity.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora

    #Flora #Habitat #Organisms #EcologyTerminology #BotanicalNomenclature

  5. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌲👂 #Sound artist Jeff Rice lowered a #hydrophone into #Pando, a single 12,000-year-old quaking aspen in #Utah that cloned itself into 47,000 stems over 100 acres, and recorded the rumble of a million #leaves trembling in a #thunderstorm, transmitted through its connected root system.

    👉 sciencealert.com/haunting-soun

    #quakingaspen #trees #plants #science #nature #ecology #conservation #audio #organisms #ancient

  6. The saprotrophic-symbiotic continuum in fungi
    and the loss of rare microbiota through agricultural intensification

    Saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum in fungi. Francis Martin, Hao Tan, Current Biology : 2025 >>
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    Banerjee, S., Dasgupta, D. & van der Heijden, M.G.A. Agricultural intensification, microbial homogenization and loss of rare microbiota. Nat Rev Microbiol (2026)
    nature.com/articles/s41579-026 >>
    #soil #agriculture #microbiota #microbes #mycorrhizae #mutualism #symbiosis #saprotrophy #ecology #taxonomy #EcologicalSpectrum #organisms #LeafLitter #PlantMicrobeInteractions #MicrobialEcology

    Image: #Fungi, Bellingen, NSW