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Discovering a Global Phytolith Community: My First IMPR Experience in Barcelona
An on-site report submitted by IPS member Marishka Govender
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The 14th IMPR was held July 14-19, 2025 in Barcelona, Spain
The Final Programme of Activities is Now Released
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Report on III Workshop on Micropaleoethnobotany: Relevance of an Interdisciplinary Network of Research in Phytoliths and Starches.
March 17 to 21, 2025 in Brazil
read moreNew Feature – IPS Envoys!
The IPS is delighted to introduce IPS Envoy posts, a new feature on the website designed to increase communication among phytolith researchers. Because the phytolith research community is so large and global, it is difficult to keep up with research conducted by laboratories outside one’s own region.
IPS Envoy Posts ..!
Latest IPS Envoy posts!
Browse for the latest envoy post: "Alexandra Golyeva is the leading researcher of soil phytoliths in Russia"
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The new code for phytolith nomenclature, version 2.0 IS NOW published !
The paper with its supplementary material can be downloaded for free on the Annals of Botany website.
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Want to learn more about how to do Open Access phytolith science?
Check out the new Open Science Skills Clinics presented by ICOPS!
read moreAnnouncing the Launch of PHYTO-CHAT-L!
We strongly encourage all phytolith researchers (IPS membership is not required) to join PHYTO-CHAT_L.
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Looking for the paper Mineralization of fossil wood by Buurman published in Scripta Geologica in 1972?
Join us and get access to pdfs of articles in the phytolith bibliography!
