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Agro-ecosystem services assessment and mapping are one of the main requirements for implementing the concept of ecosystem services into institutional decision-making within the European Union and worldwide.
Jarmila Makovníková +3 more
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Identification of species and materia medica within Saussurea subg. Amphilaena based on DNA barcodes [PDF]
Saussurea is one of the most species-rich genera in the family Asteraceae, where some have a complex evolutionary history, including radiation and convergent evolution, and the identification of these species is notoriously difficult. This genus contains
Jie Chen +3 more
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Convergent Variations in the Leaf Traits of Desert Plants
Convergence is commonly caused by environmental filtering, severe climatic conditions and local disturbance. The basic aim of the present study was to understand the pattern of leaf traits across diverse desert plant species in a common garden, in ...
Muhammad Adnan Akram +7 more
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Hyoscyamine and scopolamine (HS), two valuable tropane alkaloids of significant medicinal importance, are found in multiple distantly related lineages within the Solanaceae family. Here we sequence the genomes of three representative species that produce
Jiao Yang +11 more
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Interspecific delimitation and relationships among four Ostrya species based on plastomes
Background The genus Ostrya (Betulaceae) contains eight species and four of them are distributed in China. However, studies based on limited informative sites of several chloroplast markers failed to resolve interspecific delimitation and relationships ...
Yanyou Jiang +4 more
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The global biodiversity crisis from anthropogenic activities significantly weakens the functioning of marine ecosystems and jeopardizes their ecosystem services.
Romane Rozanski +7 more
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Speciation is the key evolutionary process for generating biological diversity and has a central place in evolutionary and ecological research. How species diverge and adapt to different habitats is one of the most exciting areas in speciation studies ...
Zeyu Zheng +11 more
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Sustainability of Agro-ecosystems in Bulgaria [PDF]
Ecosystem approach has been increasingly incorporated in the management and evaluation of sustainability levels. Despite huge progress in the theory and practice of this new area, still there is no consensus on how to assess the sustainability of agro-ecosystems due to diverse understandings, approaches, methods, employed data, etc.
Hrabrin Bachev +2 more
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Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are involved in various biological regulatory processes, but their roles in plants resistance to salt stress remain largely unknown.
Jianchao Ma +9 more
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Urban greening provides important ecosystem services and ideal places for urban recreation and is a serious consideration for municipal decision-makers.
Zefu Wang +6 more
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