Richness and endemism patterns of Frullania Raddi reveal key areas for conservation of liverworts in Brazil
Understanding the different distribution patterns of biodiversity is essential for the development of conservation strategies. This theme has become extremely relevant, especially due to the current context of climate change. The genus Frullania belongs to the group of liverworts and has a wide dive…
Continental‐scale empirical evidence for relationships between fire response strategies and fire frequency
Theory suggests that the dominance of resprouting and seeding, two key mechanisms through which plants persist with recurrent fire, both depend on other traits and vary with fire regime. However, these patterns remain largely untested over broad scales.We analysed the relationships between mean fire…
Sustaining floriculture and floral fragrance in a changing climate
Flower scent is a composite character that is determined by a complex mixture of low-molecular-weight volatile molecules. The studies on floral fragrance focused on its chemical elucidation, coupled with chemical synthesis to produce the large quantities demanded by the perfume and food industries. …
Advances and shortfalls in knowledge of Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity
Antarctica harbors many distinctive features of life, yet much about the diversity and functioning of Antarctica’s life remains unknown. Evolutionary histories and functional ecology are well understood only for vertebrates, whereas research on invertebrates is largely limited to species description…
Identifying the collector practices that shape spatial, temporal, and taxonomic bias in herbaria
Natural history collections (NHCs) are essential for studying biodiversity. While spatial, temporal, and taxonomic biases in NHCs affect analyses, the influence of collector practices on biases remains largely unexplored. We utilized one million digitized specimens collected in the northeastern Unit…
Temporal dynamics and global flows of insect invasions in an era of globalization
Human-mediated transport has led to the establishment of more than 6,700 non-native insect species with wide-ranging effects on ecosystems, economies and human health. Understanding how different aspects of globalization affect the spread of non-native insects is crucial to reducing their effects. I…
Integrating hotspot analysis and priority setting for enhanced endemic Bornean palms conservation
The Arecaceae family (palms) holds global significance for its economic and ecological roles. Borneo is known as a center of endemic plant species but faces threats from human activities, including those affecting palms. This study aims to update the distribution and conservation status of endemic B…
geoSABINA: a unified plant ecology database for Spain
Abstract Spatial ecological databases are crucial for understanding and managing biodiversity and ecosystem services. The geoSABINA database provides spatially explicit datasets to support plant ecological research and conservation throughout mainland Spain. It integrates high-resolution spa…
Relationship between secondary metabolites and ecological suitability zones for Eucommia ulmoides
The quality of Chinese medicinal materials is closely related to the types and contents of their secondary metabolites, while ecological adaptability influences the production of secondary metabolites. Therefore, identifying the relationship between ecological adaptability and secondary metabolites …
Fantastic plants and where to find them: niche occupancy analysis in neotropical epiphytic species
Aim: Niche occupation and organism diversification are interrelated processes that shape biodiversity. This study investigates the relationship between niche occupation, phylogenetic relationships, and species distribution within the genus Microgramma (Polypodiaceae), a group of neotropical epiphyti…
Invasive Traits of Symphyotrichum squamatum and S. ciliatum: Insights from Distribution Modeling, Reproductive Success, and Morpho-Structural Analysis…
Understanding the drivers of invasive species’ success is essential for predicting and managing their ecological impacts. Symphyotrichum squamatum, a South American species first recorded in Bucharest in 2015, is currently expanding into urban and peri-urban areas of Romania, raising concerns about …
Climatic niche conservatism in non-native plants depends on introduction history and biogeographic context
Many tools informing preventive invasion management build on the assumption that introduced species will conserve their climatic niches outside their native ranges. Previous research testing the validity of this assumption found contradictory results regarding niche conservatism vs. niche switching …
The changing biodiversity of the Arctic flora in the Anthropocene
The plants of the circumpolar Arctic occupy a dynamic system that has been shaped by glacial cycles and climate change on evolutionary timescales. Yet rapid climatic change can compromise the floristic diversity of the tundra, and the ecological and evolutionary changes in the Arctic from anthropoge…
Thermal acclimation of tree species in a tropical Andean city: Exploring the role of species origin and thermal niche
AbstractPremiseThe warmer and drier atmospheric conditions of urban environments challenge plant performance to different extents based on a species' ability to acclimate to the conditions. We evaluated the influence of species origin and thermal niche on the acclimation of leaf traits and shifts in…
Potential Distribution Prediction of Terminalia chebula Retz. in China Under Current and Future Climate Scenarios
Climate change in the future could potentially expand, shrink, or alter the habitats of numerous species, leading to changes in their spatial distributions. Predicting suitable areas for cultivating medicinal plants through modeling has become an effective tool for assessing site suitability and con…
The evolution of Hutchinsonian climatic niche hypervolumes in gymnosperms
The niche is a fundamental concept in ecology. One way to represent the niche is to use multidimensional geometry known as the Hutchinsonian niche hypervolume. However, hypervolume data are complex and the biological significance of niche hypervolume properties needs to be better understood. Here, w…
A MaxEnt model for estimating suitable habitats for some important Pelargonium species in South Africa
Accessing the rich biodiversity in tropical ecosystems has been of great interest to scientists across the globe. While several species have been underutilized despite their wide distribution, many others are faced with continuous population decline across their native range. Here, we amassed occurr…
Unprecedented heat threatened 1 in 10 vertebrate species in 2023
Abstract 2023 was the hottest year in recorded history at the time of its recording1 and warmer than any in the past 125,000 years2. Although the effects of this unprecedented year on human health, agriculture, and economies have been documented3, we know much less about its effects on globa…
Completeness of Digital Accessible Knowledge of plants across Africa and priorities for future data discovery
Abstract Digital Accessible Knowledge (DAK) is of utmost importance for biodiversity conservation. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, www.gbif.org) is a mega data infrastructure with more than two billion and two hundred million occurrence records as of 17 January 2023. It i…
Convergent evolution in angiosperms adapted to cold climates
Convergent and parallel evolution occur more frequently than previously thought. Here, we focus on the evolutionary adaptations of angiosperms at sub-zero temperatures. We begin by introducing the history of research on convergent and parallel evolution, defining all independent similarities as conv…
A moderate elevation and warm-humid climate of the Wulan Basin, NE Tibetan plateau in the Middle Miocene indicated by Pueraria macrofossils
The phased uplift of the Tibetan Plateau since the Cenozoic strongly changed the Asian topography and greatly impacted not only the regional but also the global climate. Being sensitive to past climate changes, fossil plants are proven pivotal bio-indicators that can infer the paleoclimate and paleo…
Controlled temperature contrasts of three native and one highly invasive annual plant species in California
Plant responses to changes in temperature can be a key factor in predicting the presence and managing invasive plant species while conserving resident native plant species in dryland ecosystems. Climate can influence germination, establishment, and seedling biomass of both native and invasive plant …
An Updated Environmental Resistance Model for Predicting the Spread of Invasive Species
ABSTRACTAimPredictive models on invasive species spread can assist in identifying large‐scale invasion risk. Environmental resistance (ER) models, which predict spread based on ecological similarity to already‐invaded communities, offer one approach. However, gaps remain in understanding how differe…
Jack of all trades and master of most:Carpobrotustaxa show no trade-off in reproductive strategies
The ability to reproduce via multiple strategies is crucial for the invasion success of alien plant species. Here, we use Carpobrotus taxa (species and hybrids) to explore how trade-offs between and within these strategies may influence plant invasion dynamics. Native to South Africa, Carpobrotus pl…
Flowering plants at Sino‐Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau face increased extinction risk
The loss of biodiversity is one of the most serious environmental issues in the Anthropocene. Understanding the extinction risk of species is essential for preemptive conservation measures, but is hampered by gaps in geographical and evolutionary knowledge, especially in areas/regions that are highl…