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Fruit use and fruit processing by euphonias, specialized avian frugivores

Oikos, EarlyView.
Euphonias (Neotropical passerines in the genera Euphonia and Chlorophonia) form the quintessential example of a specialized avian frugivore, combining a high reliance on fruit as food and the restriction of fruit taxa exploited. To understand their specialization, we explored the integration of fruit morphological and nutritional traits with their ...
Marco A. Pizo, Paulo H. A. Camargo, Ana C. Crestani, Tobias N. Rojas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digitising biological collections to advance National Species Inventories: A case study from the flora of Chile

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
In response to Chile's public policy to establish a national biodiversity inventory and monitoring system, we launched the HerbarioDigital.cl portal. We have digitised over 120,000 specimens representing more than 3,900 species from two Chilean herbaria, integrating them through a curated local taxonomic index.
Ricardo A. Segovia, Juan M. Sáez, Francisco A. Squeo, Alicia E. Marticorena, Julián Caro, Pablo C. Guerrero   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A comprehensive checklist of Mediterranean wild edible plants: Diversity, traditional uses, and knowledge gaps

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The use of wild edible plants and the traditional knowledge associated with them are rapidly disappearing across the Mediterranean, with serious consequences for biodiversity, cultural heritage, and regional food security. This study compiles and organizes fragmented information to create the first comprehensive catalogue of these plants across the ...
Benedetta Gori, Tiziana Cossu, Hicham El Zein, Udayangani Liu, Tiziana Ulian, Gianluigi Bacchetta   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Balancing tracks and trees: Assessing railroad impact on Brazilian biodiversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The Brazilian West–East Integration Railway (FIOL) aims to boost the national economy by improving commodity transport; however, it crosses three of Brazil's most biodiverse and fragile regions: the Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Using digitised plant records and land‐use analyses, our study reveals significant vegetation loss within the ...
Ana Luiza Silva Rocha, Anselmo Nogueira, Matheus Colli‐Silva, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract The rapid expansion of biodiversity data presents new opportunities to understand and forecast biosphere dynamics. However, disparate and dispersed data, taxonomic and geographic inconsistencies, pervasive quality issues, and a lack of reproducable workflows hinder synthesis, introduce biases and limit accurate assessment of biodiversity ...
Brian J. Enquist, Brad Boyle, Brian S. Maitner, Cory Merow, Ben S. Carlson, Xiao Feng, Gabriel M. Moulatlet, Erica A. Newman, Daniel S. Park, Michiel Pillet, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Rethvick S. Y. Babu, George G. C. Barbosa, Nathan Casler, John C. Donoghue II, Daniel Guaderrama, Rohith K. Sajja, Thomas L. P. Couvreur, Matthew B. Jones, Peter M. Jørgensen, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Pablo A. Marquet, Brian J. McGill, Nirav Merchant, Naia Morueta‐Holme, Danilo M. Neves, Ary Oliveira‐Filho, Robert K. Peet, Oliver Phillips, Brody Sandel, Mark Schildhauer, Irena Simova, Hans ter Steege, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Barbara Thiers, Cyrille Violle, Jan J. Wieringa, Susan K. Wiser   +38 more
wiley   +1 more source

Convergence and parallelism in the evolution of plant metabolism

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, EarlyView.
Similar traits in different organisms may originate from shared ancestry or evolve independently. The terminology used to define phenotypic similarity is often confusing. This review attempts to clarify the definitions and present examples from plant domestication and specialized metabolism to explain how complex traits evolve repeatedly in plants ...
Federico Scossa, Mustafa Bulut, Thomas Naake, John C. D'Auria, Alisdair R. Fernie   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Limited drought tolerance in the neotropical seasonally dry forest plants impairs future species richness

Plant Biology, EarlyView.
Global climate change will likely modify the plant assemblages of the Neotropical seasonally dry forest based on the physiological capabilities of the species. Abstract Neotropical seasonal dry forest (NSDF) is one of the most threatened ecosystems according to global climate change predictions.
A. Manrique‐Ascencio, D. A. Prieto‐Torres, F. Villalobos, J. Mercado Gómez, R. Guevara   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Actions for Managing Cactus Invasions

Plants, 2019
The family Cactaceae Juss. contains some of the most widespread and damaging invasive alien plant species in the world, with Australia (39 species), South Africa (35) and Spain (24) being the main hotspots of invasion.
Ana Novoa, Giuseppe Brundu, Michael D. Day, Vicente Deltoro, Franz Essl, Llewellyn C. Foxcroft, Guillaume Fried, Haylee Kaplan, Sabrina Kumschick, Sandy Lloyd, Elizabete Marchante, Hélia Marchante, Iain D. Paterson, Petr Pyšek, David M. Richardson, Arne Witt, Helmuth G. Zimmermann, John R. U. Wilson   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

Water availability shapes temporal patterns of extrafloral nectar secretion and ant visitation to a Neotropical legume

Plant Biology, EarlyView.
Drought duration affects ant–plant interactions: extrafloral nectar quality initially increases and subsequently declines, and ant interaction patterns closely track these nectar dynamics. Abstract Mutualistic plants use non‐structural sugar (NSC) to produce carbon‐based resources to reward partners.
B. Melati, C. Souza, A. Nogueira, L. C. Leal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crescimento inicial de pitaia em função de combinações de doses de fósforo-zinco

Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura, 2014
Com o objetivo de avaliar a interferência da relação fósforo-zinco sobre o crescimento inicial de pitaia para fornecer informações que subsidiem a definição de sistemas de produção mais adequados para a exploração desta cultura no Brasil, realizou-se o ...
Márcio Cleber de Medeiros Corrêa, Edmilson Igor Bernardo Almeida, Virna Braga Marques, Júlio César do Vale Silva, Boanerges Freire de Aquino   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source