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A national crop wild relative checklist for Zimbabwe reveals edible crop wild relative diversity of regional and global importance

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Crop wild relatives (CWR) in Zimbabwe are reservoirs of beneficial agronomic traits, yet they remain under‐documented and poorly conserved. This study developed Zimbabwe's first national CWR checklist based on a conceptual framework combining floristic, ecological and ethnobotanical data, revealing over 2700 taxa, with nearly 1000 edible species ...
Kudakwashe Mutasa, Onismus Chipfunde, Christopher Chapano, Patience Chatukuta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patterns and Drivers of Subterranean Biodiversity Hotspots across the Globe. [PDF]

Bioscience
Nǎpǎruş-Aljančič M, Pipan T, Deharveng L, Bedos A, Culver DC.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Genomic insights into the local adaptation of spontaneous olive trees in the Mediterranean Basin highlight the need for conservation planning in the face of global change

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The Mediterranean Basin, a major biodiversity hotspot, is highly vulnerable to climate and global changes. Wild olive trees form an essential part of this landscape and hold strong ecological, cultural and socio‐economic significance. By examining how these trees responded to past climatic conditions, this study shows adaptation of olive trees to local
Lison Zunino, Gautier Sarah, Lorenzo Rocchetti, Bénédicte Rhoné, Alexandre Soriano, Gaëtan Droc, Pierre Mournet, Ahmed El Bakkali, Evelyne Costes, Bouchaib Khadari, Philippe Cubry   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Plant-Diversity Dark Spot at the Intersection of Three Biodiversity Hotspots: Environmental Drivers of Brassicaceae Richness in Türkiye. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Dumlupınar İ, Özüdoğru B, Gür H.
europepmc   +1 more source

The most threatened plants receive the least scientific attention

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Plants sustain all life, providing the energetic and structural basis of ecosystems, but they face a growing risk of extinction. Reversing this decline requires an understanding of how scientific knowledge is distributed among species, and identification of the biases and gaps that hinder effective responses to the threats they face. However, we reveal
Renon S. Andrade, Matilda J. M. Brown, Leandro Freitas, Eimear M. Nic Lughadha   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cities at Sea: Coastal Urbanization Generates Local Biodiversity Hotspots but Homogenizes Marine Fish Communities Regionally. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
Macé B, Delrieu-Trottin E, Mouillot D, Valentini A, Bruno M, Velez L, Avouac A, Deter J, Bockel T, Orblin M, Boissery P, Le Roux G, Manel S.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From settler gardens to digital naturalists: human aesthetic preferences and land use changes facilitate the biogeographical expansion of a wild plant–virus interaction

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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, Jasmine S. Peters, Juan Pablo Jordán, Alison G. Power   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Field-Deployable eDNA Metabarcoding Workflow Including De Novo Reference Assembly for Characterising Understudied Biodiversity Hotspots. [PDF]

Mol Ecol Resour
Erens J, Heine C, Lötters S, Krehenwinkel H, Crawford AJ, Rueda-Solano LA, Plewnia A.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Conservation gap analysis for wild grapevines (Vitis L.) of the Americas

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Wild grapevines (Vitis L.) native to the Americas are ecologically and culturally important plants that are also critical to the global cultivated grape industry as sources of traits for crop innovation, but many of these species are poorly documented and insufficiently conserved.
Daniel Carver, Colin K. Khoury, Anne Frances, Nan McCarry, Luis Diaz‐Garcia, Erin R. Galarneau, Sarah Gora, Megan Haidet, Claire Heinitz, Wesley Knapp, Abby Meyer, Allison Miller, Ray Mims, Surya Sapkota, Carol Spurrier, Jun Wen   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reefal regions were biodiversity hotspots throughout the Phanerozoic. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Close RA, Benson RBJ, Kiessling W, Saupe EE.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source