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Niche-dependent forest and savanna fragmentation in Tropical South America during the Last Glacial Maximum

npj Biodiversity
The refugia hypothesis, often used to explain Amazonia’s high biodiversity, initially received ample support but has garnered increasing criticism over time.
Douglas I. Kelley, Hiromitsu Sato, Michaela Ecker, Chantelle A. Burton, João M. G. Capurucho, John Bates   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Botanical diversity as a reservoir of resilience: The emergence of new uses of wild plants under acute food shortages in Karamoja, Uganda

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Agro‐pastoralist communities in Karamoja, Uganda, face food insecurity driven by climate variability, declining livestock numbers and crop failures. In this context, local ethnobotanical knowledge systems play a central role in subsistence and adaptation.
Emiel De Meyer, Emmanuel Emaruk, Simon Omeri, Adam Leese, Claudias N. Lorika, Thomas Achilla, Vivian Lomele, Pablo Manzano, Rainer W. Bussmann   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Capsicum chinense as an African traditional vegetable: Culture, resilience, and opportunity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Capsicum chinense is central to everyday diets, cultural identity, and smallholder livelihoods across Sub‐Saharan Africa, yet remains overlooked in agricultural research and policy. This paper reframes C. chinense as a traditional, climate‐resilient vegetable shaped by centuries of farmer stewardship and cultural selection.
Derek W. Barchenger, Herbaud P. F. Zohoungbogobo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Management Strategies of Tropical Savanna Ecosystem for Multiple Benefits of Community Livelihoods in Semiarid Region of Indonesia

World Development Sustainability
Tropical savannas are complex landscapes composed of mainly grasses and a matrix of proportions of discontinuous tree cover. They play an essential role in providing multiple ecosystem services including biodiversity, carbon storage, and socio-economic ...
Perdinan, Raden Eliasar Prabowo Tjahjono, Delta Yova Dwi Infrawan, Ardi Nur Armanto, Syafararisa Dian Pratiwi, Erianto Indra Putra, Yonvitner, Shabrina Oktaviani, Kania Gita Lestari, Ryco Farysca Adi, Ade Reno Sudiarno, Evi Kaban, Rosalia Widyaningrum, Jansen Mayor   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brazil seed transfer zones: Supporting seed sourcing for climate‐resilient ecosystem restoration

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Brazil has tens of millions of hectares of degraded land that must be restored to meet national and global biodiversity and climate goals. Sowing genetically diverse native seeds is key to restoring degraded lands to climate‐resilient landscapes, but we still lack guidance on how to effectively match seed sources to restoration sites across broad ...
Mateus Silva, André Braga Junqueira, Pedro Guimarães, Danielle Celentano, Beatriz Murer, Tobias Fremout, Evert Thomas, Christopher Kettle, Edjane Damasceno, Adler Medeiros, Rodrigo Dutra‐Silva, Fabian Borghetti, Fatima Piña‐Rodrigues, Anabele Gomes, Veronica Maioli, R. Toby Pennington, Lucy Rowland, Eduardo Malta   +17 more
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Beyond forests: Harnessing conservation gardening for open biomes in Brazil

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
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, Luciane Vilela Resende, Fernando A. O. Silveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The inadequacies of the steppic savanna classification system to describe the vegetation of the semi-arid Caatinga of Brazil [PDF]

Rodriguésia
The steppic savanna term was originally employed to classify a single type of tropical vegetation in Africa, but it has been expanded by the pioneering RADAMBRASIL authors and it is currently used to classify the vegetation of the Caatinga in ...
Edgard Bontempo, Flora Martins, Christianne Corsini, Frans Pareyn, Dalton de Morrison Valeriano   +4 more
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Peri‐urban agroforestry for climate mitigation in West Africa: Structural diversity and functional traits as key drivers of carbon storage

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Peri‐urban areas in West Africa are expanding rapidly, often with limited planning and growing exposure to climate risks. Our study shows that agroforestry systems in these landscapes, especially diverse home gardens, can store substantial amounts of carbon when they include structurally complex stands and species with traits that favor biomass ...
Sèdoami Flora Dogbo, Kolawolé Valère Salako, Sylvanus Mensah, Gafarou Agoundé, Kangbéni Dimobe, Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo, Jens Gebauer, Constant Yves Adou Yao, Romain Glèlè Kakaï   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fonio (Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua) in Nigeria: Regional cultivation patterns, landrace diversity, and farmer knowledge for conserving a climate‐resilient indigenous cereal

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Fonio (Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua) cereals are valued for their drought resilience, adaptability to poor soils, and cultural importance. In Nigeria, where both species are cultivated, fonio has declined due to labor‐intensive processing, lower yields, and changing livelihood choices. By documenting 21 landraces (15 D. exilis and 6 D. iburua),
Ishaq Muawiyya, Abubakar Bello, George P. Burton, Philippa Ryan, Maria S. Vorontsova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating anisotropy‐based Monin–Obukhov similarity theory over canopies and complex terrain

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
This study shows that an anisotropy‐based generalization of Monin–Obukhov surface‐layer scaling (SC23) applies readily across a wide range of atmospheric conditions with variable terrain, canopies, and land‐cover complexity. This work focuses on the scaling of velocity variances for 7 years at the 47 sites in the National Ecological Observation Network
Tyler S. Waterman, Ivana Stiperski, Nathaniel Chaney, Marc Calaf   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source