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Comparing Floristic Diversity between a Silviculturally Managed Arboretum and a Forest Reserve in Dambulla, Sri Lanka

Journal of Tropical Forestry and Environment, 2014
Repeated slash and burn cultivation creates wasteland with thorny shrubs, which then takes a long time to become secondary forests through serial stages of succession. Assisted natural regeneration through silvicultural management is a useful restoration
B. D. Madurapperuma, P. G. Oduor, K. A. J. M. Kuruppuarachchi, D. N. N. Wijayawardene, J. U. Munasinghe   +4 more
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Vegetation trajectories over 150 years of temporary ponds created in the Camargue delta (Southern France)

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Temporary ponds in the Mediterranean climate have a high conservation value, but many have been severely destroyed or degraded. Pond restoration and new pond creation have been engaged widely. Evaluations of the success of such operations are generally carried out over 10–15 years and show divergent results over this timeframe. In
Hugo Fontès, Patrick Grillas, Thierry Dutoit, Antoine Gazaix, Elie Gaget, François Mesléard   +5 more
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Redefining ecosystem integrity for an Anthropocene biosphere: a process‐ and lineage‐based framework for restoration

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Restoration increasingly operates in rapidly transforming landscapes shaped by human‐driven global change, where historical reference states no longer represent achievable or even desirable targets. Yet, ecological restoration and conservation management still rely on composition‐based definitions of ecosystem integrity that assume stable reference ...
Jens‐Christian Svenning
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Reflections of Swedish Fathers in Late Adulthood on Their Past and Present Parental Role in Relation to the Mother

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With a contextual and developmental perspective, this study aimed to examine Swedish late‐adult fathers' reflections on their past and present parental role in relation to the mother and to see how these reflections incorporate changes in gender and parenthood during recent decades in Sweden.
Maria Wängqvist, Nathalie Korhonen
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Reconceptualizing Crisis: An Empirically Based Investigation

Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
Crisis is predominantly characterized in terms of its detrimental consequences. Drawing on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews in Melbourne and Taipei, the article provides a critical and distinctive understanding of crisis. Crisis is conceptualized here as a disruptive prefiguring of new possibilities, both agentic and structural.
Xiaoying Qi
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Assessing multifunctional mountain landscape in an Eastern European framework

Geographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 2, May 2026.
The research introduces the Biocultural Resilience Index (BRI), a novel tool for assessing multifunctional landscape sustainability. By integrating biological, cultural, and socio‐economic indicators, the BRI identifies vulnerable areas and informs strategies for sustainable management.
Viorel Gligor, Remus Crețan, Emanuela‐Adina Nicula, Mircea Alexe, Alexandru‐Sabin Nicula   +4 more
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Forest Recovery or Shrubland Assembly? Vegetation Dynamics in Abandoned Atlantic Forest Highland Pastures

Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Understanding successional trajectories in abandoned lands is critical for predicting forest recovery potential in the Atlantic Forest, a global biodiversity hotspot. Over a decade of field monitoring (2014–2025) in permanent plots in the subtropical highlands of southern Brazil, we analyzed the dynamics of tree‐shrub components in abandoned ...
Maria Julia Carvalho Cruz, Ana Carolina da Silva, Karla Juliana Silva da Costa, Drielly Bentes Gomes, Guilherme Schneider de Moura, Samuel de Barros Silva, Pedro Higuchi   +6 more
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Floristic Distribution Patterns of Araceae Juss. in the Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro

Acta Botânica Brasílica
Araceae play a crucial role in the biodiversity of the Atlantic Forest, enhancing its ecological complexity and ecosystem function. However, distribution knowledge within this Phytogeographic Domain remains limited.
Daniel Luiz da Silva Dutra Junior, Ana Angélica Monteiro de Barros, Marcus Alberto Nadruz Coelho, Felipe Zuñe, Rodrigo Theófilo Valadares, Cássia Mônica Sakuragui   +5 more
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Environmental filters drive functional similarity in disjunct ferruginous outcrops of Eastern Amazonia. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Chaves VV, Sarmento P, de Castro AF, Guimarães JTF, de Rezende Cardoso AL, Tyski L, da Silva RDSS, Miranda TG, Ramos S, Caldeira C, Gastauer M.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A First Quantification of Plant Endemism in the Manica Highlands (Zimbabwe–Mozambique) and the Significance of Open Habitats

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 4, April 2026.
We present here the first quantitative assessment of plant endemics from the Manica Highlands (Zimbabwe‐Mozambique), totalling 216 taxa, representing over 9% of the estimated total flora. A major finding is that 173 (80%) endemic taxa are principally or entirely confined to open montane habitats such as grassland, bare rock, crags and scrub or dwarf ...
Jonathan Timberlake, Vincent Ralph Clark
wiley   +1 more source