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**Annals of Botany** @AnnBot@botany.social · Dec 13, 2024

Dec 13, 2024

Annals of Botany @AnnBot@botany.social

Key takeaway: climate and leaf age are significant in determining how much silicon bamboo leaves store. Perfect for adapting plants to changing environments. (8/8)

https://botany.fyi/un4l8e

#Bamboo #PlantScience #Phytoliths

**Nina Davtian** @nina_davtian · Nov 28, 2024

Nov 28, 2024

Nina Davtian @nina_davtian

And now, the Version of Record of my latest co-authored #scientific #publication led by Juan Ochando is out in #Quaternary Science Reviews:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109025
#Science
#ScienceMastodon #AcademicMastodon
#Paper #OpenAccess
#Archaeology #Paleoecology #Geochemistry #Palynology #Neandertal #Experiment
#Gibraltar #Cave #Hearth #Tar
#Biomarkers #Levoglucosan #PAHs #Retene #BPCAs #PyrogenicCarbon #Pollen #Phytoliths
https://mastodon.world/@nina_davtian/113554601654347588

Header of the online article by Ochando et al. (2024) QSR (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109025) entitled "A Neanderthal’s specialised burning structure compatible with tar obtention" and published as a gold open access paper in the Elsevier journal Quaternary Science Reviews. Screenshot taken by Nina Davtian (that's me!).

**Dr Anke Marsh** @MarshScapes@flipping.rocks · Nov 22, 2023

Nov 22, 2023

Dr Anke Marsh @MarshScapes@flipping.rocks

So I started with 3g of sediment and this is what I have left after an acid bath in HCl to get rid of carbonates, separating out the clays, baking the organics out at 500 degrees C and separating out the silica But it’s ok! Gonna have lots of microfossils to look at! #phytoliths #sponges #diatoms #microfossils #PalaeoenvironmentalReconstruction #Science

My gloved hand holding a 15ml centrifuge tube with a teeny bit of sediment at the bottom

**Lukas VFN** @animalculum@scholar.social · Aug 2, 2023

Aug 2, 2023

Lukas VFN @animalculum@scholar.social

#Fossil reveals leaf-eating among earliest birds
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-fossil-reveals-leaf-eating-earliest-birds.htmp

Intra-gastric #phytoliths provide evidence for #folivory in basal #avialans of the Early #Cretaceous #JeholBiota https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40311-z

"The #pheasant-sized #Jeholornis, a member of the second most primitive lineage of #birds, has teeth and a long bony tail like its predatory, feathered #dinosaur relatives... It had eaten tree leaves from a group of flowering #plants called #magnoliids."