Exploring Brazilian karst in Tocantins
Tropical Botany
by tropicalbotany
4y ago
Tweet Karst in Aurora do Tocantins, central Brazil comprising highly dissected outcrops with open vegetation, and collapsed forested margins. Credits, Alex Monro.I have been interested in karst since a child. My Grandparents lived at the foot of a large outcrop in France where I spent much of my holidays exploring for insects, rocks and plants. Through my work on nettles, a group of plants very diverse on karst, I have become to think of karst as a forgotten domain for plants. One that has received little focus from botanists. Karst is weathered limestone, a rock produced from the shells of or ..read more
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Life in the field (tips for fieldwork in remote areas)
Tropical Botany
by tropicalbotany
5y ago
Preparing to leave for a new campsite with all of our gear and suppliesExploring remote and little known parts of the world makes being a botanist a very exciting and rewarding job. The camping that comes with explorationt is also rewarding but comes with its share of challenges, which make you appreciate how divorced from nature we have become. A lot of my fieldwork has been in the La Amistad world heritage site, where the absence of roads, settlements and steep terrain mean that most of the park’s 4,000 km2 remain totally unexplored. Two of our water sources. Left, a muddy depression at the ..read more
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