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Beyond forests: Harnessing conservation gardening for open biomes in Brazil
Urban gardening offers an innovative conservation strategy by integrating native ornamental species into urban landscapes. We evaluated the ornamental potential of the Brazilian flora by comparing the representation of species from forests versus open biomes (focusing on campo rupestre grasslands) and introduced and validated the Index of Ornamental ...
Flávia Santos Faria +2 more
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Minnesota Forest Scene, Issue 17 (Fall 2016)
1 electronic resource (PDF, 6 pages; includes color photographs)University of Minnesota. Department of Forest Resources; Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota. (2016). Minnesota Forest Scene, Issue 17 (Fall 2016).
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota +1 more
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Avocados are a multibillion‐dollar global commodity, but their growing export market pressures local farmers to abandon local fruit tree diversity in favor of commercial cultivar production. Interviews with rural avocado farmers and households from the Southern Mexican Highlands, Pacific Coastal Honduras, and Western Nicaragua, as well as the genetic ...
Kevin Wann +4 more
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Minnesota Forest Scene, Issue 21 (Fall 2018)
1 electronic resource (PDF, 9 pages; includes color photographs)University of Minnesota. Department of Forest Resources; Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota. (2018). Minnesota Forest Scene, Issue 21 (Fall 2018).
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota +1 more
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Anthropogenic facilitation of wild plants based on aesthetic preferences for particular traits can change the biogeography and ecology of natural communities. We use a mixed‐methods socioecological approach to characterize the ways in which humans interact with a common, widely distributed plant and a generalist viral symbiont that induces an ...
Elizabeth M. Lombardi +3 more
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Minnesota Forest Scene, Issue 23 (Fall 2019)
1 electronic resource (PDF, 16 pages; includes color photographs)University of Minnesota. Department of Forest Resources; Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota. (2019). Minnesota Forest Scene, Issue 23 (Fall 2019).
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It remains unclear how many plant species are not yet recorded by science. We illustrated the process by which species of the pineapple family in tropical America have been newly described to science to date, and we estimated how many species may still await scientific discovery in this group.
Georg Zizka +4 more
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Ocean beach of Atlantic City, N.J., on a busy afternoon
Ocean beach at Atlantic City, NJ, on a busy ...
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Societal Impact Statement Field‐based learning is an important component of plant biology higher education, offering students valuable hands‐on in situ experiences to help students appreciate and understand plants within their environment. This nature‐based learning may be particularly valuable for students with neurodiversity conditions who might ...
Marjorie R. Lundgren
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WorldCuP: A database of checklists documenting the World's Cultivated Plants and their distributions
Human life would be unrecognizable without the benefits of cultivated plants, including crops, ornamentals, or plants with other uses. Despite their importance in daily life and prevalence across landscapes, we know surprisingly little about global cultivated plant distributions.
Nicole L. Kinlock +2 more
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