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joshkirkland

Study shows that opportunity costs influence when people leave social interactions - 1 views

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shared by joshkirkland on 05 Jun 24 - No Cached
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  • Sean Nash on 06 Jun 24
     
    I like this sort of research. Do you think a game like this is either build-able or perhaps even getting access to the one they used? Is it open source? Can you track down this paper? I'm wondering about tying it to depression, etc. That might drift into territory they might not approve at this age (especially since all participants have paperwork they have to sign off on, and any participants under 18 have to have the paperwork signed off by a parent. I wonder if you might dig into introversion/extroversion and whether that might have an impact on similar things. Seems like it might.
  • Sean Nash on 06 Jun 24
     
    This also makes me think of the UCSD juncos... and how they forage longer in stressful environments due to decreased corticosterone levels....... and how that is a key characteristic allowing them to survive in a human-built environment.
Sean Nash

Are plants intelligent? It depends on the definition | ScienceDaily - 1 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...240612113314.htm

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shared by Sean Nash on 15 Jun 24 - No Cached
  • When leaf beetle larvae eat goldenrod leaves, the plant emits a chemical that informs the insect that the plant is damaged and is a poor source of food. These airborne chemicals, called volatile organic compounds (VOCs), are also picked up by neighboring goldenrod plants, prompting them to produce their own defenses against the beetle larvae. In this way, goldenrod move herbivores on to neighbors, and distribute damage.
    • Sean Nash
      Sean Nash on 15 Jun 24
       
      Are these VOCs (volatile organic compounds) detectable by us? If not detectable, they can we identify them... and then produce or purchase those chemicals to test their effects on plant responses?
  • start producing defensive compounds that help the plants fight off insect pests.
    • Sean Nash
      Sean Nash on 15 Jun 24
       
      It seems to me that I remember hydrogen peroxide being one of these signaling chemicals (at least from one part of a plant to another).
  • When no neighbors are present, the plants don't resort to accelerated growth when eaten and the chemical responses to herbivores are markedly different, though they still tolerate quite high amounts of herbivory.
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  • Neighboring goldenrod also exhibit intelligence when they perceive VOCs that signal the presence of a pest. "The volatile emission coming from a neighbor is predictive of future herbivory," Kessler said. "They can use an environmental cue to predict a future situation, and then act on that."
  • Applying the concept of intelligence to plants can inspire fresh hypotheses about the mechanisms and functions of plant chemical communication, while also shifting people's thinking about what intelligence really means, Kessler said.
  • "What that means is, the brain in the plant is the entire plant without the need of central coordination," Kessler said.
  • "They can smell out their environment very precisely; every single cell can do it, as far as we know,"
  • André Kessler, Michael B. Mueller. Induced resistance to herbivory and the intelligent plant. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 2024; 19 (1) DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2024.2345985
  • Sean Nash on 15 Jun 24
     
    "When goldenrod is eaten by herbivores, it adapts its response based on whether or not another plant is nearby."
emmarrogers

Environmentally relevant atrazine exposures cause DNA damage in cells of the lateral an... - 0 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...PMC6854318

shared by emmarrogers on 16 Sep 24 - No Cached
  • 80 ppb atrazine
  • 10 days
    • emmarrogers
      emmarrogers on 16 Sep 24
       
      This is the longest time I have seen so far. most studies are between 24-96 hours
  • banned in the European Union
    • emmarrogers
      emmarrogers on 16 Sep 24
       
      I wonder why it is banned in the EU, but not the US
    • emmarrogers
      emmarrogers on 16 Sep 24
       
      increased risk of prostate cancer and decreased sperm count in men, and a higher risk of breast cancer in women. reason why its banned
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  • evapotranspiration
    • emmarrogers
      emmarrogers on 16 Sep 24
       
      Loss of water from the soil both by evaporation from the soil surface and by transpiration from the leaves of the plants growing on it.
  • ATR is the most commonly detected herbicide in the U.S. Midwestern region
  • This is a cause for concern as ATR can leach into aquatic ecosystems and affect aquatic organisms.
Sean Nash

Uncovering the role of solar radiation and water stress factors in constraini... - 0 views

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...nph.70104

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shared by Sean Nash on 04 Apr 25 - No Cached
  • Sean Nash on 04 Apr 25
     
    This is an interesting possibility for working with large (already-existing) datasets to map out and correlate data about the spring reset for plants. What factors are most important in when the spring "greenup" starts? Could also be combined with some local data collected to compare the datasets with what we are seeing on the ground. Could also be a cool opportunity to use ArcGIS tools for spatially mapping information geographically over time!
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