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Plant biology vs botany
I believe the name of the article should be "Plant biology" rather than Botany. As a biologist I come across the first term more. I can defend my argument by pubmed search; thus search for "plant biology" yields 29000 results; whereas botany gives only 7000 results; Not that I prefer plant biology personally, botany is nice name enough but that's the trend in science now; Better proof would be probably searching for scientific journals mentioning the corresponding names. Araz Zeyniyev (talk) 09:08, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
Wiki Education assignment: Principles of Ecology
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 29 August 2024 and 12 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): JayG05 (article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by JayG05 (talk) 15:09, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Discussion on improving the lead paragraph (for general information)
WP editors User:Smartse and User:Davidbena recently discussed the lead paragraph and whether or not it should be expanded by citing an antiquated source taken from Encyclopædia Britannica (1823). A link to that discussion can be seen here. This is solely for general information.Davidbena (talk) 14:23, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
More symbols
Found these on Commons; can anyone verify if they are (still) used?
- Aquatic plant
- Broadleaf
- Climbing plant
- Coniferous
- Deciduous
- Semi-deciduous
- Evergreen
- Monocarpic
- Monoecious
- Dioecious
- Neuter
- Non-woody perennial
- Odor
- Odor (U+2756)
- Parasitic plant
- Hemiparasitic
- Fastigiate
- Prostrate plant
- Protected
- Tree
- Shrub
- Sub-shrub
- Sterile
Some of them cite this 2010 journal article. They could also be listed as proposed, if notable?