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Fossils of an endangered, endemic, giant dipterocarp species open a historical portal into Borneo's vanishing rainforests. [PDF]

Am J Bot
Abstract Premise Asia's wet tropical forests face a severe biodiversity crisis, but few fossils record their evolutionary history. We recently discovered in situ cuticles on fossil leaves, attributed to the giant rainforest tree Dryobalanops of the iconic Dipterocarpaceae family, from the Plio‐Pleistocene of Brunei Darussalam (northern Borneo ...
Wang TX, Wilf P, Briguglio A, Kocsis L, Donovan MP, Zou X, Ferry Slik JW.   +6 more
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The Optimization of Stand Structure Can Significantly Alleviate the Flammability of Forest Ecosystems. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Flammability of various plant families in surface living fuels varies significantly, and fuels of Rutaceae, Cucurbitaceae exhibited high flammability, while Arecaceae were low. Leaves, litters were high flammability fuels, humus was low flammability fuel.
Zhang Y, Deng X, He X, Zhang X, Huang Z, Chen L, Ouyang S, Xiang W.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Screening the Chemical Composition, Antioxidant Activity, and Toxicity of Ten Species of Non‐Conventional Food Plants From Southern Brazil

Chemistry &Biodiversity, Volume 23, Issue 4, April 2026.
This study found that the ten unconventional food plants from southern Brazil studied exhibited high antioxidant activity, a diversity of phenolic compounds, and no toxicity in vivo. These data demonstrate that these plants have promising benefits for human health and may be a potential protective agent against oxidative damage.
Luana Vanessa Peretti Minello, Paola Dutra da Rosa, Sabrina dos Santos Cassol, Luciana Bavaresco Andrade Touguinha, Cátia Santos Branco, Valdirene Camatti Sartori   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seasonal variation in wild pig (Sus scrofa) diet revealed by DNA metabarcoding

Wildlife Society Bulletin, Volume 50, Issue 1, March 2026.
Using DNA metabarcoding of fecal samples, we investigated the diet of wild pigs at an extensive bottomland hardwood forest ecosystem within Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge in Southern Arkansas. We found that wild pig diet was highly diverse and included at least 74 plant families and 106 genera and 23 species of vertebrates.
Kenneth C. Wilson, Scott J. Chiavacci, Caleb P. Roberts, Brett A. DeGregorio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The diversity and floral hosts of bees at the Archbold Biological Station, Florida (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) [PDF]

, 2002
A list is provided of 113 species of bees and their 157 known floral hosts at the Archbold Biological Station(ABS), a 2105 ha site on the Lake Wales Ridge in Highlands County in south-central Florida.
Deyrup, Mark, Edirisinghe, Jayanthi, Norden, Beth   +2 more
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Incidence, correlates, and origins of dioecy in the Island Flora of New Caledonia [PDF]

, 2014
Premise of research. Because it is an inherently risky sexual system, dioecy is globally rare. Attempts to explain unusually high incidences of dioecy on certain islands have generated a considerable literature on the relationships among dioecy, its ...
Lowry, P. P., Munzinger, Jérôme, Schlessman, M. A., Vary, L. B.   +3 more
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Root Traits Predict the Soil Functional Responses of Subtropical Plant Species to Experimental Drought

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 2, February 2026.
Plant species' habitat preference and drought tolerance traits were not the primary factors driving interspecific differences in soil functional responses to drought. Instead, fine root traits—particularly their chemical traits—played more critical roles in determining these variations.
Lei Wang, Zewei Zhuang, Zheyang Su, Wenbin Li, Qizhi Wang, Xinfeng Chen, Ruiling Liu, Haoliang Lu, Yuxin Chen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Botanical novelties from Sierra de Maigualida, southern Venezuela. II [PDF]

, 2012
Four new species, Siphocampylus acanthidiotrichus J.R. Grande (Campanulaceae), Phyllanthus huberi Riina & P.E. Berry (Phyllanthaceae), Sohnreyia maigualidensis J.R. Grande & Kallunki (Rutaceae), and Turnera maigualidensis J.R.
Arbo, Maria Mercedes, Berry, Paul E., Grande, José R., Huber, Otto, Kallunki, Jacquelyn, Riina, Ricarda   +5 more
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Host Status of Brazilian Native Tree Species to Root‐Knot Nematodes

Forest Pathology, Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Root‐knot nematodes (RKN, Meloidogyne spp.) are among the most important plant pathogenic organisms, causing significant damage, with a wide geographical distribution and being difficult to control. The ability of these nematodes to parasitize native trees from Brazilian biomes is little understood.
Ismail Teodoro de Souza Júnior, Rodrigo Ferraz Ramos, Zaida Inês Antoniolli, Vicente Guilherme Handte, Juliano Borela Magalhães, Tiago Edu Kaspary, Cristiano Bellé   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Atlantic elements in the Swiss flora: distribution, diversity, and conservation status [PDF]

, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the composition, distribution, ecology, and conservation status of the Atlantic elements of the Swiss flora. About 195 Atlantic and 80 Mediterranean-Atlantic vascular plant species of the European flora have been ...
Bürcher, Sandra, Fleury, Matthieu, Huber, Fanny, Kozlowski, Gregor   +3 more
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