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Embryo excision in Compositae, with implications for combating biodiversity loss

open access: yesApplications in Plant Sciences, Volume 12, Issue 5, September-October 2024.
Abstract Premise Embryo excision is an effective, under‐described means of promoting germination in the sunflower family and may help to ensure the survival of endangered taxa or lineages with limited seed availability. Methods and Results We describe and illustrate a detailed method of embryo excision used successfully to stimulate germination in a ...
Bruce G. Baldwin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Selección de sitios de ovoposición y éxito reproductivo en hembras de tortuga lora Lepidochelys olivácea

open access: yes, 2019
En las últimas décadas se han presentado reducciones en las poblaciones de tortugas marinas alrededor del mundo. Una de sus grandes amenazas es el deterioro de los ecosistemas utilizados para su reproducción, principalmente las zonas de desove.
Pinzón Morales, Paula Lorena   +1 more
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Características reproductivas de Zenaida auriculata (Aves: Columbidae) en ambientes urbanos de la ciudad de Córdoba, Argentina

open access: yesEcología Austral
El crecimiento urbano sobre áreas naturales transforma el paisaje y obliga a las especies a enfrentar nuevas condiciones del ambiente; solo algunas especies son capaces de tolerarlas y reproducirse.
Gabriel Barco   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Componentes fenológicos del sistema de cruzamiento monoico de Cnidoscolus spinosus (Euphorbiaceae) en Jalisco

open access: yesBotan‪ical Sciences, 1982
Una jerarquía de rasgos fenológicos define las oportunidades de cruzamiento en una población de Cnidoscolus spinosus en una selva tropical caducifolla en el occidente de México.
Stephen H. Bullock
doaj   +1 more source

A methodological workflow for quantitative colouration and colour pattern comparison reveals taxonomic and habitat‐level differences in the polymorphic fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra)

open access: yesJournal of Zoology, Volume 324, Issue 1, Page 34-49, September 2024.
In this study, we use the urodele Salamandra salamandra as a study model to apply an analytical approach for extracting and quantifying colour proportions and patterns variation, using the recently developed R packages patternize and recolorize, to accurately describe and compare colour distribution at both taxonomic and habitat levels.
L. Alarcón‐Ríos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The specialised buzz pollination syndrome poses a partial barrier to plant invasions

open access: yesJournal of Ecology, Volume 112, Issue 8, Page 1686-1700, August 2024.
We found that plants that exhibit traits consistent with the buzz‐pollination syndrome are underrepresented as invasive species across the globe. Our result suggests that the specialist buzz‐pollination syndrome poses a partial barrier to plant invasions. Our review also highlighted six alternative insect behaviours that can enable invasive plants with
Laura C. Lopresti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Range‐wide intraspecific variation reflects past adaptation to climate in a gypsophile Mediterranean shrub

open access: yesJournal of Ecology, Volume 112, Issue 7, Page 1533-1549, July 2024.
Despite strong specialization to gypsum soils, past divergent selection related to climatic gradients has driven adaptive population differentiation in Lepidium subulatum. All populations showed high but similar plasticity to drought, indicating that selection did not act against plasticity in harsh environmental conditions.
Mario Blanco‐Sánchez   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Opportunities and challenges for strawberry cultivation in urban food production systems

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 3, Page 611-621, May 2024.
Cultivation of strawberry plants in urban production systems, whether in green open‐air spaces or under some form of protected horticulture such as vertical farming, has demonstrated to be challenging to new farmers and businesses. Commercial strawberry producers have an advanced understanding of strawberry plant physiology, enabling them to grow the ...
Aikaterini Kouloumprouka Zacharaki   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

La conducta sexual del carnero. Revisión

open access: yesRevista Mexicana de Ciencias Pecuarias, 2014
El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo recapitular la literatura disponible sobre factores que influyen en la conducta sexual del carnero. Incluye una descripción de los fundamentos endocrinos básicos, su manifestación en borregos ferales, así como una ...
Agustín Orihuela Trujillo
doaj   +2 more sources

Exito reproductivo de la colza (Brassica napus var. oleífera) en Buenos Aires, Argentina

open access: yesRevista de la Facultad de Agronomía, 1996
En dos cultivares comerciales de colza se estudió el éxito reproductivo preemergente y la influencia de los insectos sobre algunos de los componentes del rendimiento. Entre 1991 y 1993 se trabajó con la variedad Printol y el híbrido lciola 41 .
N. H. Montaldo   +4 more
doaj  

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