Category: Flora
Elfin Forest
March 20, 2023Elfin, dwarf or pygmy forests show us that not only individual species but entire ecosystems select for small size when things get rough. The forests are uncommon ecosystems featuring miniature trees with shallow but extensive horizontal root systems, and mostly inhabited by equally small animals such…
Juvenile Coccoloba
December 3, 2022GHRE: Gravitropism
March 29, 2022Short-Tongued Bombus
April 10, 2021A study in Science shows that in a period of just 40 years two alpine bumblebee species (Bombus balteatus and Bombus sylvicola) rapidly evolved significantly shorter tongues. Short-tongued species are more generalist foragers, able to feed on many different types of flowers. They are replacing more specialised, long-tongued…
Trunkism
November 10, 2020Shrink Agents
April 30, 2016Japanese Miniatures: Akakomugi
February 17, 2016Pruning
July 25, 2015Mandragora
February 6, 2015The Incredible shrinking Man desires a more ecological human existence. We’ve outgrown our naturally given space on Earth and experience the consequences, or even consider exit strategies. But rather than fantasizing about a departure from the planet that designed us, we investigate the possibilities to…