Sorghum bicolor is a globally important cereal crop with annual yields exceeding 50 million tons across more than 100 countries and can be grown on marginal lands where conventional agriculture is limited. We examined how eight genetically diverse sorghum genotypes shaped arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) community assembly across two contrasting ...
Philip Brailey‐Crane +8 more
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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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Estrategias para la restauración ecológica de bosques tropicales mediante la dispersión de semillas por murciélagos frugívoros. [PDF]
La deforestación elimina los hábitats más adecuados para la fauna, disminuyendo la calidad de los mismos para la alimentación, la reproducción y en general el mantenimiento de poblaciones saludables.
Casallas-Pabón, Diego
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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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Dispersión de semillas por murciélagos en zonas abiertas heterogeneas adyacentes a fragmentos de bosque de la Orinoquía colombiana [PDF]
Ante el efecto negativo de la creación de zonas de pastoreo y cultivo sobre la biodiversidad, existe una necesidad para restaurar áreas degradadas, mediante la facilitación de procesos como la lluvia de semillas. Los murciélagos juegan un papel principal
Suárez Castro, Andrés Felipe
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Needle in a haystack: Holocene history of European larch in Central Europe revisited
Defining nativity of species is crucial for their management. However, this is a complex task, especially for species that have been used and spread by humans for a long time. We combined paleoecological records with extensive genetic data to investigate the Holocene history of European larch—a common and economically important tree species in Central ...
Martin Prach +11 more
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Modeling seed germination data to meet biodiversity conservation needs in the Mediterranean
Workflow to assess the availability and quality of germination data and assign species' thermal risk in the Mediterranean. (a) Assessment of data availability, including the phylogenetic distribution of the number of records (i.e. available germination data); (b) data quality assessment; and (c) assignment of climate risk categories for species that ...
Diana María Cruz‐Tejada +2 more
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Dispersión de semillas y consumo de frutos por aves frugivoras en la reserva de la Sociedad Civil Rogitama biodiversidad Arcabuco, Boyacá - Colombia [PDF]
En Colombia la mayor parte de los estudios realizados a nivel de dispersión de semillas retoman interés en la dispersión por especies de aves en zonas conservadas, sin embargo hay pocos estudios que hayan descrito la dispersión, por animales de alta ...
Avella, Carolina +1 more
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Primary seed dispersal spatial patterns of Juglansjamaicensis C. DC. subsp. jamaicensis
This work was carried out in two Zonal Units of Conservation of the Turquino National Park, with the seeds of seven trees in six locations, to characterize the dispersal of the seeds of Juglansjamaicensis subsp.
José Luis Rodríguez Sosa +2 more
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Se estudió la forma de manipulación del fruto de las principales especies de aves frugívoras de la selva ribereña de Punta Lara y el destino que siguen las semillas.
Norberto H. Montaldo
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