Spring · mountain
After the snow.
Bulbs and geophytes compress their visible year into a narrow window when cold retreats but soil moisture remains.
Open a botanical profileField journal
The archive in motion.
Seasonal notes are shorter than the main stories: observations about timing, water, migration, flowering, heat, leaf fall and the small changes that alter what a landscape can support.
Summer · desert
Heat discipline.
Shade, burrows, nocturnal activity and the timing of movement become as important as anatomy.
Explore desert livesAutumn · forest
Canopy fire.
Ironwood and other deciduous trees make seasonal change visible, but the less obvious transformation is on the forest floor.
Read ironwoodWinter · wetland
The white passage.
Winter wetlands become international rooms for birds whose annual geography crosses borders and ecosystems.
Read the crane profileWater · cultivated land
A field is also habitat.
Rice paddies, tea hills, orchards and groves complicate the line between “wild” and “human” landscape.
Open the atlasArchive method
When a name changes.
The Hyrcanian boxwood page shows why the archive must follow current taxonomic treatment rather than freezing a familiar label.
Read the correction