- Ancient DNA from an Early Neolithic Iberian population supports a pioneer colonization by first farmers. People, not just crops, moved.
- Genetic consequences of using seed mixtures in restoration: A case study of a wetland plant Lychnis flos-cuculi. After a few generations of use for seed production, it’s best to abandon ex situ stocks and go back to the wild populations.
- Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information. It’s complicated. I wonder if the multi-headed hounds who guard the gates to GBDBH are aware of this. Here’s a blog post.
- Is diversification history of maize influencing selection of soil bacteria by roots? Kinda.
- A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2012. Perennial cereals make the cut.
- How pristine are tropical forests? An ecological perspective on the pre-Columbian human footprint in Amazonia and implications for contemporary conservation. It doesn’t matter.
- Genetic diversity of carrot (Daucus carota L.) cultivars revealed by analysis of SSR loci. Western and Asian groups, the latter more diverse, because of landraces. But 88 accessions does seem a bit few. And no wilds.
- Mapping of earthworm distribution for the British Isles and Eire highlights the under-recording of an ecologically important group. 28 species! But many gaps. No diversity map. Will send them DIVA-GIS for Christmas.
Slow servers and broken links are common at AgBioDiv. I would like to have the Ancient DNA Iberian Farmers link and that for the PreColombian footprint.
Thanks, Don
Sorry about the slow servers Don. I’ve tried to improve matters, but to be honest I’m a bit out of my depth with server voodoo. Personally, I thought things had improved recently …
I’ve fixed the links too. Sometimes we forget to put the http:// in front of a link we have cut and pasted. If you’re in a real hurry, you can always look at the broken link and subtract our domain from it.
And if there’s anyone out there for whom servers are not voodoo, and who could help, just le me know.
Thanks Jeremy.
And there’s the Mendeley group, where you can find all the papers we link to in Brainfood.
The `horizon scanning’ paper has sugar cane as an annual crop. Wrong. Also perennial cereals are promoted. But there are very good biological reasons why our main food sources are annuals – don’t mess with the nature-farmer combination that hit on annual cereals.