@NeilElliotBell

Researching bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts) at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.

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Joined April 2009
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First in a new series of #BotanicsStories posts on the fascinating world of #mosses, by @thebotanics' Diego Sánchez-Ganfornina: stories.rbge.org.uk/archives… #bryophytes #biodiversity
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Congratulations Diego Sánchez-Ganfornina on the publication of our paper on Hypnodendron in Bot. J. Linn. Soc.! academic.oup.com/botlinnean/…

Phylogeny, chronology, and phylogeography in Australasian Hypnodendraceae

Abstract. The Hypnodendrales form the sister group to all other pleurcarpous mosses in the superorder Hypnanae. Many species are closely associated with th

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Some nice publicity in The Scotsman for the new book (perhaps needs a subscription to view but was in print yesterday) scotsman.com/news/environmen…

Green carpet: A scientist reveals why moss, often overlooked, should be celebrated

Mosses are small, unostentatious and often overlooked, tramped underfoot and paid little attention. But the importance of the plants cannot be understated – and Scotland is home to some very rare and...

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Here's a free-to-view version! xitter.cf/NeilElliotBell/status/…
Neil Bell@NeilElliotBell13 Mar 2023
Here's a free-to-view version of last week's Scotsman article about the new book that I tweeted last week: msn.com/en-gb/news/other/gre…
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Here's a free-to-view version of last week's Scotsman article about the new book that I tweeted last week: msn.com/en-gb/news/other/gre…
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📣Overjoyed to share our new paper, a long-term project by an international team of bryologists to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the @IAB_Bryology - Unveiling the nature of a miniature world: a horizon scan of fundamental questions in bryology doi.org/10.1080/03736687.202… 🧵
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Starring role 54s in! ;-)
Darwin Tree of Life Project@darwintreelife4 Feb 2022
MUST WATCH: this new video from @sangerinstitute features some of the amazing science and scientists working on #DarwinTreeOfLife🧬 It's a snapshot of the tireless work being undertaken by our partners the length and breadth of these islands. youtube.com/watch?v=szFdV9fQ…
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Zygodon gracilis in the Yorkshire Dales last week! facebook.com/neil.bell.106/p…

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Returning from my Nephew's wedding last week and staying in the Yorkshire Dales, I was able to make a pilgrimage to see Zygodon gracils - a very rare Schedule 8 species that in the UK is ONLY found...

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Today we’re celebrating the 250th anniversary of the first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis, by collecting plant material for DNA sequencing on Britain’s highest mountain. Read more: rbge.org.uk/news/articles/sc… 📷 #TeamRBGE, photographed at the start of their journey this morning 👏
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Spectacular trip on Thursday with #TeamRBGE collecting bryophytes for #DarwinTreeOfLife on Ben Nevis! Nationally threatened snowbed habitat home to some of our rarest bryophytes is right next to the tourist path (although for fun we took the CMD arête) @RBGE_Science @TheBotanics
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New paper based on old data - thanks to Maren Flagmeier's sterling efforts funded by a Sibbald Trust grant from RBGE! Scottish populations of Anastrophyllum alpinum have their origins inthe Sino-Himalaya. rdcu.be/b6bJP
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Polytrichum's vascular system is fully functional! 😲😀 facebook.com/neil.bell.106/p… nature.com/articles/s41477-0…

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Polytrichum's vascular system is fully functional! 😲😀 The "discovery" here is not the vascular system of course - we've long known that Polytrichaceae have hydroids, analagous to xylem in...

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Nice article on Adelanthus lindenbergianus on p.15 of Today’s Scotland on Sunday - the print version has my photo of the plant itself! scotsman.com/news/environmen…
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RBGE will have a key role in this extremely exciting project - amongst other things, we'll be largely responsible for sampling the #bryophytes !
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh@TheBotanics8 Nov 2019
Together with nine partner organisations, @TheBotanics will provide a major contribution to the ground-breaking £9.4m Wellcome funded @darwintreelife project – an ambitious plan to map the genetic code of all life on the British Isles. rbge.org.uk/DToL #DarwinTreeOfLife
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During Scotland's Climate Week it's worth reiterating that Scotland's bryophyte flora (our mosses and liverworts) is among our most internationally significant biodiversity assets, and potentially highly vulnerable to climate change. stories.rbge.org.uk/archives…

Lindenberg's Featherwort - liverwort child of the Atlantic

Geography, and particularly climate, have distinguished the extreme western parts of Scotland from the rest of the country for thousands of years. Many of our rarest plant species are dependent on a...

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Bryophytes on telly! Brilliant piece on the BBC's "Landward" (Ep. 14, right at the end) about our very rare snowbed bryophyte communities, the potential threats to them from climate change and the importance of passing on knowledge bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m99…

BBC Scotland - Landward

Scotland's farming and countryside programme.

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Happy to have joined RBGE contingent today showing solidarity with #ClimateStrike
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Fun day out looking at bryophytes and lichens at Little France Park today - quick initial survey with @rebecca_yahr and Liz Kungu. #LittleFrancePark
Rebecca Yahr@rebecca_yahr17 Jun 2019
Old walls and young woods with a future at Edinburgh's newest park at Little France. Over 100 mosses and lichens and counting today... mini bioblitz with @NeilElliotBell & Liz Kungu @EdinOutdoors @EdinLandscape @TheBotanics
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Becky Yahr, Liz Kungu and I will be doing a bryophyte and lichen quick survey / informal bioblitz at Little France Park on Monday 17th as part of the Little France Wildlife Week. 10am start at Little France Drive (Gate to South Slope). #LittleFrancePark
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Nice piece in the Guardian about the Flows to the Future project that RBGE will be hosting during the festival - was chatting to Heather Lander about Sphagnum last week! theguardian.com/artanddesign…

The bogs are alive: how art is healing Scottish peatlands

An ambitious project is restoring areas of blanket bog in the heart of the Flow Country in northern Scotland that have been damaged by forestry planting

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