ニューヨーク植物園さんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク植物園Instagram)「🌿 Happy Earth Day! As part of #plantlove at NYBG, we’re talking with people from all over the Garden about what inspires their passion for plants and our environment. Today, meet Fabian Michelangeli, Curator in the Institute of Systematic Botany at NYBG and one of the many important experts working to preserve our world’s biodiversity. Check out today’s story for a peek into his recent adventures collecting specimens in the cloud forests of Peru! 💚 . "I grew up outside Caracas, Venezuela, on the campus of a research institute where my dad is a researcher. All three of my great uncles were systematists or taxonomists of some type, so it’s no surprise that I ended up working in biology. I always knew that this is what I would do, as I’ve always loved evolution and adaptations to new environments, and learning how organisms cope with that. Plants are a great system to answer questions about evolution and adaptation. Sometimes, you’re walking in the field, and you find a plant and know the moment you see it that it’s a new species. It’s an endorphin high, just knowing. I collect plants, and do the work that I do, to know where plants grow, to understand their anatomy, so I can answer questions about their evolution and help us as a species manage our environment properly."」4月23日 2時25分