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Discovering alpine plant biodiversity

Pollination of the Lady's Slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus)

Biodiversity creation is like making pizza. Part 6: species richness and productivity

Roccoli: bird snaring arbors with orchids

Grass hopper. Jumping 'fruits' of wild oat (Avena fatua). Which is quite obviously a plant.

Milan, where tourists don't go

Biodiversity creation is like making pizza. Part 5: why genetic diversity matters

Searching for the loose-flowered orchid (Anacamptis laxiflora)

Biodiversity creation is like making pizza. Part 4: community assembly

Invasive species: false Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus inserta) with P. tricuspidata

Biodiversity creation is like making pizza. Part 3: patchiness and the species pool

Biodiversity creation is like making pizza. Part 2: the last day of winter

Biodiversity creation is like making pizza. Part 1: how species coexist

The understorey at winter's end

Vernal geophytes and the temporal niche

Plant functional types: ruderals in an unploughed maize field

Plant functional types: ruderals. Persian speedwell (Veronica persica)

Why do plants grow where they do? The ideas of Phil Grime

The Conservation of Terrestrial Orchids

Invasive species: thorny olive (Elaeagnus pungens)

The Mystery of the 39 Bromeliads

Carniolan spikerush habitat management, with killer robots

Humans v Nature

Invasive species: shaggy soldier (Galinsoga quadriradiata)

Invasive species: Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei)

Plant functional types: stress-tolerators. Butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus)

Invasive species: oneseed bur cucumber (Sicyos angulatus)

How cool are trees? Or, literally how does the shade trees give us affect temperature?

Searching for the nettle-leaved bellflower (Campanula trachelium)

Searching for seeds of Aquilegia einseleana and Centaurea rhaetica

Cyclamen purpurascens in dynamic light

Searching for Saxifraga tombeanensis (again)

Searching for Saxifraga tombeanensis

Invasive species: tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima)

Plant functional types: competitors. Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)

Plant functional types: competitors. Giant reed (Arundo donax)

Invasive species: black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)

Invasive species: Hottentot fig (Carpobrotus edulis)

Invasive species: Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica)

Plant functional types: stress-tolerators. Calluna vulgaris with Molinia caerulea

Searching for seeds of the fen orchid (Liparis loeselii)

Searching for seeds of the summer lady's-tresses (Spiranthes aestivalis)

Searching for seeds of the Adriatic lizard orchid (Himantoglossum adriaticum)

Plant functional types: ruderals. Yellow toadflax (Linaria vulgaris)

Plant functional types: competitors. Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense)

Invasive species: American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)

Plant functional types: competitors. Common butterbur (Petasites hybridus)

Searching for seeds of the Carniolan spikerush (Eleocharis carniolica)

Discovering alpine plant diversity. Rare and endemic species at Monte Arera, Italian Alps

Pollinating Cypripedium calceolus (Orchidaceae) to produce seeds and help reinforce the population

The Seveso Disaster - half a century later. The Seveso and Meda Oak Woodland.

Control of invasive red oak (Quercus rubra) at Monte Barro, Lecco, Italy

What is life? An actual technical answer

[IN ITALIAN] La conservazione delle orchidee più rare della Lombardia

Growing terrestrial orchids from seed: practical experience for conservation projects

Oak-hornbeam woodland restoration

Tree identification at the botanic gardens and city of Milan

Universal adaptive strategy theory

The humped-back model and the intermediate disturbance hypothesis IDH