Recently, we had a big name in fire ecology visiting our institute. He had come, among other things, to look for records of a certain fire-adapted shrub in my university’s herbarium. While myself and a colleague helped him go through the stacks of pressed and archived specimens, I asked him why there were so little contributions to the herbarium in recent years. His response was: “People sto ...[Read More]
The existential modeling crisis – and how to overcome it
Photo depicting wildflowers and resprouting shrubs after a desert wildfire, taken by the author, Lucia Layritz
