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Harnessing the nutritional potential of Cape wild edible plants: Insights, gaps and priorities

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Wild edible plants hold significant potential to strengthen food systems by enhancing nutrition, dietary diversity, climate resilience, sustainability and deeper connection of people to their food. In this study, we conducted a systematic literature review to identify knowledge gaps and assess the nutritional contributions of selected wild edible ...
Nicola Kühn, Loubie Rusch, Michelle Delport, Frances Storey, Emma van der Meulen, Laura Pereira   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inventory of the urban flora of Budapest (Hungary) highlighting new and noteworthy floristic records

Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023
The systematic urban floristic research of Budapest was started in 2018 by the authors with detailed methodology. One scope of the research was to gain knowledge on the plant taxa appearing in Budapest and to compile the inventory of the urban flora of Budapest.
Attila Rigó, Ákos Malatinszky, Zoltán Barina   +2 more
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Pre-colonial Amerindian legacies in forest composition of southern Brazil.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Past human societies have left persistent marks on forests worldwide. However, the degree to which pre-colonial Amerindian societies have affected forest structure is still not fully understood, especially in southern Brazil.
Aline Pereira Cruz, Eduardo Luiz Hettwer Giehl, Carolina Levis, Juliana Salles Machado, Lucas Bueno, Nivaldo Peroni   +5 more
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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

Exploring the Hidden Botanical Treasures of Pontal Island: An Urban Forest in the Parque Natural Municipal de Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil [PDF]

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The Pontal Island, located in the Parque Natural Municipal de Niterói, stands out as a vital remnant of the Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro. With ecosystems including forest, rocky outcrops, restinga, and mangroves, the island is a biodiversity ...
Lucas da Cunha Santos, Luiz Fernando Pires Oliveira, André Hoffmann, Adriana Quintella Lobão   +3 more
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SIVIM – das Online-Datenbank-System zur Vegetation der iberischen Halbinsel und der Makaronesischen Inseln [PDF]

, 2013
SIVIM (Sistema de Información de la Vegetación Ibérica y Macaronésica) is an information system designed for capturing, hosting, editing, analyzing and outputting georeferenced plot data of Iberian and Macaronesian vegetation.
Acedo, Carmen, Biurrun, Idoia, Fernández-González, Federico, Font, Xavier, Lence, Carmen, Loidi, Javier, Maria Ninot, Josep, Rodríguez-Rojo, María Pilar   +7 more
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On the compatibility of single‐scan terrestrial LiDAR with digital photogrammetry and field inventory metrics of vegetation structure in forest and agroforestry landscapes

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
The single‐scan approach to terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and the self‐terrain‐normalized form of drone‐based digital aerial photogrammetry (DAP) offer practical options for rapid assessment of the vegetation structure in tropical landscapes.
Magnus Onyiriagwu, Nereoh Leley, Caleb W. T. Ngaba, Anthony Macharia, Henry Muchiri, Abdalla Kisiwa, Martin Ehbrecht, Delphine Clara Zemp   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Threats of future climate change and land use to vulnerable tree species native to Southern California [PDF]

, 2014
Climate and land-use changes are expected to drive high rates of environmental change and biodiversity loss in Mediterranean ecosystems this century. This paper compares the relative future impacts of land use and climate change on two vulnerable tree ...
Gillespie, TW, Jenerette, GD, Pataki, DE, Pincetl, SS, Pitcher, L, Riordan, EC   +5 more
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Worldwide Invasions of Centrarchidae: The Dark Side of the Sunfish Family

Fish and Fisheries, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Freshwater fish invasions are major drivers of global ecological change, disrupting native biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, many invasive fish hold significant socioeconomic value, resulting in conflict over their management. Centrarchidae, which are globally distributed and are important for sportfishing and aquaculture, are now
Neil Angelo Abreo, Jonathan Tibo, António Barbosa Nogueira, Athanasios Nikolaou, Cüneyt Kaya, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Irmak Kurtul, Stelios Katsanevakis, Ronaldo Sousa, Teun Everts, Emili García‐Berthou, John S. Hargrove, Ana Clara Sampaio Franco, Jelger Erik Herder, Julian D. Olden, Darragh J. Woodford, Antonín Kouba, J. Rob Britton, Ismael Soto, Phillip J. Haubrock   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluación de la Estructura y estado de Conservación de tres Formaciones Forestales de la reserva florística Manejada San Ubaldo-Sabanalamar

Revista Cubana de Ciencias Forestales, 2013
This research was developed to evaluate the structure and condition three forest stands (evergreen, deciduous and pine) Managed Floristic Reserve San Ubaldo-Sabalanamar.
Yudel García-Quintana, Toa M. Villavicencio Chuma, Edison Suntasig Negrete, María Adela Valdés, Gretel Geada López, Yasiel Arteaga Crespo   +5 more
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