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Functional traits of nurse plants impact recruitment based on life form of beneficiary plants
Arid and semi-arid ecosystems are widely distributed around the world, covering about 60% of the earth’s land area. This type of ecosystem has low...
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Decreased functional dispersal traits of spontaneous plants in urban areas
Urbanization is a major form of landscape alteration characterized by the extent of impervious structures. For urban vegetation, dispersal is key for...
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Responses of plants to temporally heterogeneous water conditions in species from different ranges of habitats
Soil moisture resources are highly spatially and temporally heterogeneous. Although temporal heterogeneous water conditions have a more common impact...
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Cuicatec Ethnobotany: Plants and Subsistence in San Lorenzo Pápalo, Oaxaca
An ethnoecological approach was conducted to identify the role of plants and animals in subsistence of the Cuicatec people. The study was carried out...
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Observed and dark diversity of plants’ life-forms are driven by climate and human impacts in a tropical dry forest
Species richness is the most commonly used metric to quantify biodiversity. However, examining dark diversity, the group of absent species which can...
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Wild, Weedy and Domesticated Plants for Food Security and Sovereignty
Archaeological studies have revealed that humans have inhabited the territory that today is Mexico for more than 20,000 years, while ethnobotanical...
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Unexpected discovery: an enclave of East-Siberian plants in Northern Europe
Small native populations of the Siberian dwarf pine Pinus pumila (Pall.) Regel and bristle-pointed iris Iris setosa Pall. ex Link were discovered...
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Plants of the Serra do Mucambo: a checklist of a remnant of deciduous seasonal forest within the Caatinga domain in Bahia, Brazil
This study presents a checklist of plants occurring in the Serra do Mucambo (SM), in the municipality of Conceição do Coité, which is included in the...
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Are underground organs able to store water and nutrients? A study case in non-arboreal species from the Brazilian Cerrado
In seasonal systems, species have specific traits to deal with water shortage. This is the case for plants in Neotropical savannas, where the dry...
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Cuicatec Ethnobotany: Plants and Subsistence in San Lorenzo Pápalo, Oaxaca
An ethnoecological approach was conducted to identify the role of plants and animals in subsistence of the Cuicatec people. The study was carried out...
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Ethnobotanical survey of plants locally used in the control of termite pests among rural communities in northern Uganda
BackgroundTermites are the most destructive pests in many agricultural and forest plantations in Uganda. Current control of termites mostly relies on...
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Mazahua Ethnobotany: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Management, and Local People Subsistence
This study documents the Mazahua ecological knowledge of plants, their nomenclature and classification, and their role in subsistence of people in a...
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Seabird guano inputs increase impacts from introduced mammals on the native plants and animals of an oceanic island
Seabirds create fluxes of nutrients from marine to terrestrial ecosystems that influence the food webs of small islands. We investigated how guano...
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Wild, Weedy and Domesticated Plants for Food Security and Sovereignty
Archaeological studies have revealed that humans have inhabited the territory that today is Mexico for more than 20,000 years, while ethnobotanical...
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Well-hidden forests? Modern pollen spectra from Central Yakutia (Eastern Siberia) contribute to the interpretation of the last glacial vegetation in Central Europe
The landscape of central Europe is thought to have been dominated by steppe, forest-steppe, or tundra during the Last Glacial. This classical view is...
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Diversity and richness of the herbaceous plants on urbanized and non-urbanized dunes on the Brazilian Amazonian coast
Urbanization directly affects the structure of vegetation, which makes essential studies focused on understanding and conserving the biodiversity...
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Individual and interactive effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance and rainfall on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic composition and diversity of extrafloral nectary-bearing plants in Brazilian Caatinga
Chronic anthropogenic disturbance (CAD) and climate change represent two of the major threats to biodiversity globally, but their combined effects...
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Molecular and physiological aspects of plant responses to aluminum: what do we know about Cerrado plants?
Aluminum (Al) is a metal that in acid soils becomes toxic to plants, and its most phytotoxic form is Al 3+ . Usually, Al hinders plant growth and...
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The Role of PGPR Secondary Metabolites in Alleviating Allelopathic Effects (Biotic Stress) and Induced Tolerance in Plants
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) exert numerous benefits to the plants with which they are associated, including improved tolerance to...
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Impact of Flood Duration on Germination Success of Paraná River Delta (Argentina) Plants
The hydrological regime determines the structure and diversity of wetland vegetation, and it has been considered as the most relevant determinant for...
