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The Botanical University Challenge: Bridging isolation and empowering plant‐aware students (2025)
Journal Article
Hall, H., Stroud, S., Culham, A., Clubbe, C., Batke, S., Medcalf, S., Jones, M. G., Baker, L., Lydon, S., McGale, E., Acedo, C., Charmley, J., Warren, J. M., & Mitchley, J. (2025). The Botanical University Challenge: Bridging isolation and empowering plant‐aware students. Plants, People, Planet, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10636

The Botanical University Challenge (BUC) competition was first devised by three academic botanists in 2015 to champion plants and plant-aware students and to help connect disparate and disconnected student botanists across the United Kingdom and Irel... Read More about The Botanical University Challenge: Bridging isolation and empowering plant‐aware students.

Reconstructing the Botanical Past: Art and Paleobotany (2024)
Journal Article
Spagnuolo, E. J., Giraldo, L. A., Coiro, M., & LYDON, S. (2024). Reconstructing the Botanical Past: Art and Paleobotany. Plant Science Bulletin, 70(3), 264-276

Paleoart is an important tool for paleobotanists when reconstructing fossil plants and ancient ecosystems, and communicating with diverse audiences. Plants are fundamental components of terrestrial ecosystems. Thus, accurately depicting ancient plant... Read More about Reconstructing the Botanical Past: Art and Paleobotany.

The botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness (2022)
Journal Article
Stroud, S., Fennell, M., Mitchley, J., Lydon, S., Peacock, J., & Bacon, K. L. (2022). The botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness. Ecology and Evolution, 12(7), Article e9019. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9019

Civilization is dependent upon plants for survival. Plants permeate our every moment and our relationship with them will dictate how we will manage the threats of climate change and ecological collapse defining the Anthropocene. Yet, despite the sign... Read More about The botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness.

Hunting for answers: Linking lectures with the real world using a mobile treasure hunt app (2019)
Journal Article
Hartman, T., Lydon, S. J., & Rasmussen, A. (2019). Hunting for answers: Linking lectures with the real world using a mobile treasure hunt app. Plants, People, Planet, 1(3), 233-247. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.33

Plants underpin our society providing food, fuel, medicines, clean air and water, positive mental health, and are central to biodiversity conservation. Despite this importance and an increasing need for people with plant-identification skills, many s... Read More about Hunting for answers: Linking lectures with the real world using a mobile treasure hunt app.