The undervaluing of minorities and their researcher contributions reduces when a threshold level of minority representation (between 15 and 30%) is reached in a group or community. Botany is celebrated as a discipline in which women have been able to make important contributions, especially in the past. At the same time, other biologists have raised worries that women's research contributions are being neglected or dismissed not just in the past but even currently. Based on data on the representation of women authors in 15 biology journals, I will suggest that the difference between botany and other disciplines may arise from the numbers and proportions of women. The contributions made by women in botany could not be as easily dismissed or neglected as elsewhere in biology due to women's higher representation in botany.
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These photographs illustrate the article “Trees show higher resilience than herbs under phosphorus deficit induced by 12-year simulated acid rain” by Guangcan Yu, Mianhai Zheng, Ying-Ping Wang, Mengxiao Yu, Jun Jiang, Enqing Hou, Nannan Cao, Shu Ye, Songjia Chen, Jingtao Wu, Fengcai Liu, Linhua Wang, Shuo Zhang, Pingping Xu, Deqiang Zhang, and Junhua Yan published in Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70071
{"title":"From Rhizosphere to Resorption: Comparing Phosphorus Adaptation in Trees and Herbs Under Decadal Acid Rain Stress","authors":"Guangcan Yu, Junhua Yan","doi":"10.1002/bes2.70015","DOIUrl":"10.1002/bes2.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>These photographs illustrate the article “Trees show higher resilience than herbs under phosphorus deficit induced by 12-year simulated acid rain” by Guangcan Yu, Mianhai Zheng, Ying-Ping Wang, Mengxiao Yu, Jun Jiang, Enqing Hou, Nannan Cao, Shu Ye, Songjia Chen, Jingtao Wu, Fengcai Liu, Linhua Wang, Shuo Zhang, Pingping Xu, Deqiang Zhang, and Junhua Yan published in <i>Ecology</i>. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70071</p>","PeriodicalId":93418,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America","volume":"106 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bes2.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
These photographs illustrate the article “Net primary productivity but not its remote sensing proxies predict mammal diversity in Andean-Amazonian rainforests” by Kim L. Holzmann, Pedro Alonso-Alonso, Yenny Correa-Carmona, Andrea Pinos, Felipe Yon, Alejandro Lopera, Gunnar Brehm, Alexander Keller, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, and Marcell K. Peters published in Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70059
这些照片说明了Kim L. Holzmann、Pedro Alonso-Alonso、yny Correa-Carmona、Andrea Pinos、Felipe Yon、Alejandro Lopera、Gunnar Brehm、Alexander Keller、Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter和Marcell K. Peters发表在《生态学》杂志上的文章“净初级生产力而不是其遥感代用物预测安第斯-亚马逊雨林哺乳动物多样性”。https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70059
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COVER PHOTO: A female of the common emerald damselfly (Lestes sponsa) prepares for the night by resting on a grass during the reproduction season in spring in central France. Agricultural landscapes can be used for resting by Odonata, exposing them to threats that are specific to this anthropogenic environment, as described in Léauté et al. (https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.3057). Photo credit: Eric Sansault.