Great Diversity of Insect Floral Associates May Partially Explain Ecological Success of Poison Ivy (\u3ci\u3eToxicodendron Radicans\u3c/i\u3e Subsp. \u3ci\u3eNegundo\u3c/i\u3e [Greene] Gillis, Anacardiaceae) [PDF]
Little is known about insect floral associates of poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans, Anacardiaceae), despite the species’ ubiquity and importance in nature and society.
Senchina, David S, Summerville, Keith S
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Morphological diversity of glandular trichomes in Urticalean Rosids
Glandular trichomes are epidermal structures that produce, store and release a variety of chemical compounds. Their high morphological diversity allows their taxonomic use at various levels. Therefore, their description and standardization of terminology
Isabel Cristina Nascimento +2 more
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Island Biogeography in the Anthropocene: Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Plant Diversity in the Miaodao Archipelago. [PDF]
This study assessed changes in vascular plant diversity across spatial gradients of area, isolation, climate, and human disturbance on 10 inhabited islands in Miaodao Archipelago. We found that island area is the most important predictor of species richness and species distribution.
Yu H +6 more
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Plant dispersal across the tropical Atlantic by wind and sea currents [PDF]
This review brings together evidence on the monophyly and ages of angiosperm lineages ranging across the tropical Atlantic with data on the direction, strength, and speed of sea currents and wind jets across that ocean. Mainly for pragmatic reasons (data
Renner, Susanne S.
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Discovery of Cytospora species associated with canker disease of tree hosts from Mount Dongling of China [PDF]
Members of Cytospora encompass important plant pathogens, saprobes and endophytes on a wide range of woody hosts with a worldwide distribution.
Haiyan Zhu +4 more
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Causal Analysis of a Migration of the Snout Butterfly, Libytheana bachmanii Iarvata (Strecker) (Libytheidae) [PDF]
Observation of a massive migration of the snout butterfly, Libytheana bachmanii larvata (Strecker), in central Texas in 1971 is described. An association of peak migration periods and periodic precipitation episodes is believed to be causal in nature ...
Neck, Raymond W.
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The first complete chloroplast genome of Zelkova schneideriana Hand.-Mazz. (Ulmaceae)
The complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence of an endangered tree species, Zelkova schneideriana, was first assembled and characterized based on Illumina pair-end sequencing.
Hailong Liu +4 more
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The family Ulmaceae Mirb. and Celtidaceae Endl. in the flora of Ukraine
The article presents the results of critical and systematic study of representatives of the family Ulmaceae Mirb. and Celtidaceae Endl. in the Ukrainian flora. It was found that only one species of the genus Celtis of Celtidaceae (C.
S.L. Zhygalova
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Analysis of nuclear microsatellites reveals limited differentiation between Colchic and Hyrcanian populations of the wind-pollinated relict tree Zelkova carpinifolia (Ulmaceae) [PDF]
Premise of the study: The Caucasus represents one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots and includes the climatic refugia Hyrcan on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and Colchis on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, where different species survived ...
Borsch, Thomas +4 more
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