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Human management of ongoing evolutionary processes in agroecosystems
Societal Impact Statement Agricultural sustainability depends on the adaptation of crops to their local environment. Smallholder farmers who save seed provide an essential “evosystem” service by growing locally adapted seed varieties that can recruit ...
Alicia Mastretta‐Yanes +9 more
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Contribution of Range-Wide and Short-Scale Chemical Soil Variation to Local Adaptation in a Tropical Montane Forest Tree. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Local adaptation is a fundamental process that allows populations to thrive in their native environment, often increasing genetic differentiation with neighboring stands. However, detecting the molecular basis and selective factors responsible for local adaptation remains a challenge, particularly in sessile, non‐model species with long life ...
Arenas S +8 more
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Histologic, metabolomic, and transcriptomic differences in fir trees from a peri-urban forest under chronic ozone exposure. [PDF]
Urbanization alters ecosystems and evolutionary processes. Processes like air pollution by tropospheric ozone contribute to the decline of urban and peri‐urban ecosystems, such as Abies religiosa forests in the peripheral mountains southwest of Mexico City.
Reyes-Galindo V +10 more
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Abstract The harvest of wild plants with medicinal uses is increasing globally, both for self‐treatment and as a source of income. The increasing demand for these remedies could lead to the over‐harvest of some species. Despite a recent surge in the number of studies analysing wild medicinal plants management, little is known about the effects of non ...
J. Mateo‐Martín +7 more
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Abstract Peri‐urban forest monitoring requires indicators of vegetation damage. An example is the sacred fir (Abies religiosa) forests surrounding Mexico City, which have been heavily exposed to tropospheric ozone, a harmful pollutant, for over 4 decades.
Verónica Reyes‐Galindo +20 more
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Arte en el Real Jardín Botánico: patrimonio, memoria y creación [PDF]
Este libro analiza los intercambios entre arte y naturaleza a través del caso del Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid como espacio de encuentro para artistas, científicos e intelectuales entre los siglos XV y XXI.
Cabañas Bravo, Miguel +1 more
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The influence of new world species on the botany of the 16th century
El presente trabajo analiza cómo algunas especies botánicas del Nuevo mundo, no tan difundidas como el tomate, el tabaco, etc., formaron parte del conocimiento botánico europeo, haciendo especial referencia a la de obra de Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605 ...
Andrea Ubrizsy Savoia
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Language, Science and Globalization in the Eighteenth Century**
Abstract Asia, America, and Europe have been intellectually intertwined for centuries. Several studies have been published revealing European scholars’ interest in the “exotic” languages of Asia and America, as well as in ethnographic and anthropological aspects.
Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez
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This study is part of a research project in Urban Ethnobotany, which studies the botanical knowledge in urban areas. It includes 83 medicinal plants marketed as hypotensive in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires.
Jeremías Pedro Puentes
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Medicinal and aromatic Lamiaceae commercialized in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, Argentina
This study, framed in urban ethnobotany, presents 21 species of Lamiaceae whose products are marketed as medicinal and aromatic (condiments and flavorings) in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, Argentina.
Jeremías P. Puentes +2 more
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