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EMERSON SCHOOL’S ELMS
I grew up on the Near West Side of Chicago in a neighborhood of concrete and asphalt that was nearly…
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HEALING MY SILVER MAPLE
We have a 45 year old Silver Maple in our backyard. At some point in it's early days, someone probably…
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SAVING A TREE
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Biodiversity articles

Why Are There So Many Trees in the Forest?
From the blog Biodiversity, blogroll by kjaros on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

By Andrew Hipp, PhD
Plant Systematist and Herbarium Curator
March 2010

A single square meter of upper Midwest prairie may contain 10 to 15 species [1]. A square foot of land in one of …
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Diversity Within and Among Species
From the blog Biodiversity by kjaros on Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Thoughts on diversity, ecology and evolution
Andrew L. Hipp, PhD
Plant Systematist and Herbarium Curator
The Morton Arboretum

In the fourth chapter of The Origin of Species, Darwin presents a phylogenetic tree depicting the relationships …
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Why Study Plant Diversity?
From the blog Biodiversity by judy on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Thoughts on diversity, ecology and evolution
Andrew L. Hipp, PhD
Plant Systematist and Herbarium Curator
The Morton Arboretum

Plant diversity is the focus of my work, and I have been asked from time to time …
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