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Strangler Figs and Their Spirits: How Indigenous Beliefs and Practices Influence an Iban Landscape, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Biotropica, Volume 57, Issue 6, November 2025.
This study explores how Iban cultural beliefs in Indonesian Borneo influence the protection and distribution of strangler figs, keystone tree species with spiritual significance. Despite agricultural expansion, sacred perceptions lead to the conservation of large figs across both forests and farmland mosaics.
Ditro Wibisono Wardi Parikesit, Hardiyanti, Firman Heru Kurniawan, Douglas Sheil   +3 more
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Potential expanded pollinator distributions in North America under future climate

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 6, Issue 2, April–June 2025.
Most pollinator species, including monarch butterflies, may gain potential climate space in the future. Shifting to new locations is an additional challenge of climate change. Management, restoration and citizen participation to provide resources and reduce stressors are ecological solutions.
Brice B. Hanberry
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Is rewilding too wild? Assessing the benefits and challenges of forest succession on abandoned land in the mid‐hills of Nepal

People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 2, Page 415-433, February 2025.
Abstract The rewilding of landscapes through the promotion of natural ecological processes is a contemporary approach to nature restoration and conservation. In Nepal and elsewhere globally, forest is also regenerating naturally on abandoned agricultural land, effectively rewilding the landscape by default.
Nicola McGunnigle, Douglas Bardsley, Ian Nuberg, Bishnu Hari Pandit   +3 more
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Coloration in a Praying Mantis: Color Change, Sexual Color Dimorphism, and Possible Camouflage Strategies

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 2025.
The present study investigates color change, background choice, sexual color dimorphism, and movement rates in a praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata. Nymphs changed color over development in response to rearing container color. Adults showed sexual color dimorphisms, which could potentially reflect different camouflage strategies.
Leah Y. Rosenheim, Jay A. Rosenheim, Michael R. Maxwell   +2 more
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Strangler fig–host tree associations: Insights into the ecology and management of tropical urban green spaces

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 159-175, January 2025.
The strangler fig is known for its hemiepiphytic growth form and conspicuous strangling behavior in the tropics worldwide. It also plays an important role in providing ecological functions in tropical urban ecosystems. This study reveals strangler figs tend to colonize large trees with suitable microsites in a large tropical botanical garden and cause ...
Yu‐Xuan Mo, Huang Zou, Hai‐Xia Hu, Su Li, Hua‐Zheng Lu, Xiao‐Yan Pu, Yun‐Xin Zhang, Sujan Balami, Yuan Li, Tao Hu, Liang Song, Wen‐Yao Liu   +11 more
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Assessing the Air Pollution Mitigation Potential of Urban Trees in Ghana’s Central Region

The Scientific World Journal, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Air pollution is a major environmental concern in urban areas, necessitating the identification of tree species capable of mitigating its effects. This study assessed the Air Pollution Tolerance Index (APTI) and Anticipated Performance Index (API) of four common urban tree species (Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth., Azadirachta indica A.
Francis Kwaku Nkansah, Ebenezer J. D. Belford, Jonathan Nartey Hogarh, Kiran Kumar Yalla   +3 more
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Plant‐Based Biosynthesis of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles: An Update on Antimicrobial and Anticancer Activity

ChemBioEng Reviews, Volume 11, Issue 6, December 2024.
When it comes to finding novel ways to battle newly developing pathogenic strains and illnesses, nanoparticles are the first line of defense. Plant‐based nanoparticles are showing more significance over chemically or physically synthesized nanoparticles. Several plant species and their constituent parts have found several applications in medicine. They
Shruti Nandkishor Tanwar, Yatish R. Parauha, Yogesh There, Hendrik C. Swart, Sanjay J. Dhoble   +4 more
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Comparative Morphology of the Extrinsic and Intrinsic Leg Musculature in Dictyoptera (Insecta: Blattodea, Mantodea)

Journal of Morphology, Volume 285, Issue 12, December 2024.
We analyzed the morphology of all pairs of legs in Mantodea and its closest sister‐group—the Blattodea—using high‐resolution microcomputed tomography and dissection. Thereby, we updated the blattodean morphology and revealed a shared musculature set‐up in all pairs of legs among later‐branching mantodeans, and several differences in comparison to ...
Fabian Bäumler, Stanislav N. Gorb, Sebastian Büsse   +2 more
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Local versus regional patterns in zoospore dispersal of the kelp Eisenia bicyclis (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae)

Phycological Research, Volume 72, Issue 4, Page 238-248, October 2024.
Summary It is generally accepted that kelp populations have a metapopulation structure. Most zoospores settle near to their parent individual, and infrequent but long‐distance dispersal of zoospores contributes to gene flow between local populations. Population genetic analysis of single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping by MIG‐seq (i.e.
Haruka Suzuki, Tomoya Aoki, Chika Mitsuyuki, Yoshihisa Suyama, Yukio Agatsuma, Masakazu N. Aoki   +5 more
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Aprovechar la pandemia como una oportunidad para promover los conocimientos sobre las vacunas y la resiliencia frente a la información errónea. [PDF]

Rev Panam Salud Publica, 2021
Vanderpool RC, Gaysynsky A, Chou WS.
europepmc   +1 more source