РЕКОМЕНДАЦИИ ПО ПРЕДЛОЖЕНИЯМ ДЛЯ КОМИССИИ ПО ОХРАНЕ РЕДКИХ И НАХОДЯЩИХСЯ ПОД УГРОЗОЙ ИСЧЕЗНОВЕНИЯ ВИДОВ РАСТЕНИЙ ИРКУТСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ
Приводятся результаты анализа материалов по редким и охраняемым видам сосудистых растений для территории Иркутской области и разработанные рекомендации. Отклонить предложение о включении Hypericum ascyron L. в Красную книгу Иркутской области в связи с его возможным адвентивным происхождением. Включи…
Extensive modulation of a conservedcis-regulatory code across 589 grass species
The growing availability of genomes from non-model organisms offers new opportunities to identify functional loci underlying trait variation through comparative genomics. While cis-regulatory regions drive much of phenotypic evolution, linking them to specific functions remains challenging. We ident…
Developing and Validating Species Distribution Models for Wetland Plants Across Europe
Drainage, agricultural conversion, and climate change threaten wetlands and their unique biodiversity. Species distribution models (SDMs) can help to identify effective conservation measures. However, existing SDMs for wetland plants are often geographically limited, miss variables representing hydr…
Evaluating Drivers of Spatial Distribution for the Endangered Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis) Under Climate Change
Understanding how climatic conditions and biotic interactions impact species distributions is essential for effective biodiversity conservation. The eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis), a migratory species recently designated endangered in Canada, is particularly threatened by the rapid development …
Testing Darwin´s conundrum in a threatened biome: invasive and non-invasive exotic species have the same phylogenetic field
Abstract Exotic and invasive species have been the subject of several studies in the last few decades, due to their negative impact on native species and ecosystems. Despite those efforts, we are yet to definitively solve the question of what makes an exotic species successful in a new envir…
50 years of invertebrate conservation under the United States Endangered Species Act—history and threats to species
IntroductionThe United States Endangered Species Act celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023. As a hallmark piece of environmental legislation, the Act has successfully prevented the extinction of hundreds of species. During these last 50 years, we have observed the decline of many species of invert…
Climate change is projected to shrink phylogenetic endemism of Neotropical frogs
Climate change is widely recognized as one of the main threats to biodiversity 1 and predicting its consequences is critical to conservation efforts. A wide range of studies have evaluated the effects of future climate using taxon-based metrics 3,4 , but few studies to date have applied a phylogenet…
QUANTIFYING RESEARCH EFFORT FOR CALIFORNIA'S FLORA: EVIDENCE OF BIAS AGAINST RARE PLANTS IN LITERATURE AND SEQUENCE DATA
Without adequate data, the conservation and management of rare species is difficult and increasingly expensive. Taxonomic bias, or taxonomically driven disparities in knowledge, can further make the job of conservation difficult. Here, we ask: Is there a bias in the amount of research effort given t…
Germplasm resource and genetic breeding of Zinnia: a review
Zinnia species are among the most popular flowering plants worldwide owing to their diverse ornamental characteristics and economically valuable biological traits. Since the 18th century, the identification and selective breeding of wild species has resulted in the development of over 100 cultivars.…
Long‐term trends in global flowering phenology
Flowering phenology is an indicator of the impact of climate change on natural systems. Anthropogenic climate change has progressed over more than two centuries, but ecological studies are mostly short in comparison. Here we harness the large‐scale digitization of herbaria specimens to investigate t…
Population Genetics Meets Ecology: A Guide to Individual‐Based Simulations in Continuous Landscapes
Individual‐based simulation has become an increasingly crucial tool for many fields of population biology. However, continuous geography is important to many applications, and implementing realistic and stable simulations in continuous space presents a variety of difficulties, from modeling choices …
Range-wide mitochondrial phylogeography of Sorex monticola: evolutionarily distinct clades occupy divergent abiotic niches
Abstract The Montane Shrew, Sorex monticola, is a common and wide-ranging mammal throughout western North America. Previous studies identified multiple mitochondrial lineages, but limited geographic sampling constrained our understanding of distributional limits, phylogeographic varia…
Global Patterns of Taxonomic Uncertainty and its Impacts on Biodiversity Research
Abstract Over 2 million species have been named so far, but many will be invalidated due to redundant descriptions. Undetected invalid species (i.e., synonyms) can impair inferences we make in biodiversity research and hamper the implementation of effective conservation strategies. Ho…
Potential expanded pollinator distributions in North America under future climate
Pollinator species have declined globally during the last several decades due to a variety of factors, including habitat destruction and degradation, pesticides, disease and climate change.To examine the effects of climate change on pollinator distributions, I modelled summer occurrences of pollinat…
Shifts in phenology and species ranges restructure the flowering season across North America
Global change is altering the phenology and geographic ranges of flowering species, with potentially profound consequences for the timing and composition of floral resources and the seasonal structure of ecological communities. However, shifts in flowering phenology and species distributions have hi…
Seed‐dispersing vertebrates and the abiotic environment shape functional diversity of the pantropical Annonaceae
Mutualistic interactions between fruiting plants and frugivorous animals are shaped by interaction‐relevant functional traits. However, it is unclear whether ‘trait matching’ underlies broad‐scale relationships in plant and frugivore species and their functional diversity.We integrated novel trait d…
Past aridity and dust drove biodiversity crises and altered pollination in the ancient gymnosperm Ephedra (Gnetales)
The long‐term effects of present‐day climate change on pollination are unquantified. However, distinguishing climatic drivers of ancient changes in pollination could provide valuable insights into biotic responses to near‐future climate states. Herein, we show that pollination in a group of gymnospe…
Differential temperature adaptation mechanisms in the High Arctic-adaptedCerastium regeliiOstenf. and the widespreadStellaria longipesGoldie.
O_LIClimate change impacts arctic latitudes more acutely than other latitudes, resulting in arctic shrubification. How individual species in these climes respond to warming temperature is poorly understood. Understanding species resiliency to climate change will help us conserve plant species at ris…
The antidiabetic properties of lignans: a comprehensive review
BackgroundDiabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic disease with a high global prevalence. Lignans, a class of plant natural compounds found in commonly consumed foods, are well-tolerated by humans and have demonstrated promising potential in the management of DM. Consumption of lignan-rich food…
The edaphic influence on dispersal and dispersion of gypsum-associated species
Background Restrictive soils, soils characterised by nutrient deficiencies, often form as isolated patches across the landscape, creating conditions for an ecological filter that potentially limits dispersal and establishment of species. Aims We predicted that filtering occurs on restrictive soils,…
Combining Hierarchical Distribution Models With Dispersal Simulations to Predict the Spread of Invasive Plant Species
ABSTRACTAimPredicting the future distribution of invasive species is a current challenge for biodiversity assessment. Species distribution models (SDMs) have long been the state‐of‐the‐art to evaluate suitable areas for new invasions, but they may be limited by truncated niches and the uncertainties…
Extracting and evaluating plant trait information from digital text in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Premise of the studyPlant traits are closely associated with species functions and environmental responses, and their compilation is particularly essential for large-scale studies. Although several databases of plant trait information have been published, comprehensive information on plant traits is…
Incorporating Genetic Diversity to Optimize the Plant Conservation Network in the Third Pole
Climate change poses a significant threat to the survival of many species. Although protected areas can slow down biodiversity loss, they often lack systematic planning and do not integrate genetic diversity. Genetic diversity is a key prerequisite for species survival and the ability to tolerate ne…
A phylogenomic investigation into the biogeography of the Mexico–eastern U.S. disjunction in Symphyotrichum
AbstractPremiseBiotic disjunctions have attracted scientific attention for the past 200 years. Despite being represented in many familiar plants (such as bald cypress, flowering dogwood, sweetgum, partridgeberry, etc.), the eastern North American (ENA)–Mexican (M) disjunction remains poorly understo…
From smartphones to satellites: Uniting crowdsourced biodiversity monitoring and Earth observation to fill the gaps in global plant trait mapping
Plant functional traits are fundamental to ecosystem dynamics and Earth system processes, but their global characterization is limited by the availability of field surveys and trait measurements. Recent expansions in biodiversity data aggregation, including large collections of vegetation surveys, c…