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Coffee Farming and Climate Change in Ethiopia: Impacts, Forecasts, Resilience and Opportunities - Summary
A two-year SCIP project undertaken by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Environment and Coffee Forest Forum (ECFF), and partners. The aim of the project was to provide a climate-resilient coffee economy strategy for Ethiopia, based on a rigorous assessment of the influence of climate change on coffee-producing areas...Moat, Justin ; Williams, Jenny ; Baena, Susana ; Wilkinson, Tim ; Demissew, Sebsebe …
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Coping with ill-health: health care facility, chemist or medicinal plants? Health-seeking behaviour in a Kenyan wetland
Background Sub-Saharan African wetlands, settlement areas to growing populations, expose their users to diseases as necessary health infrastructure remains underdeveloped. Methods Mixed methods were adopted to assess the health-seeking behaviour of different exposure groups (farmers, pastoralists, service sector workers) in a Kenyan wetland community. Based on a cross-sectional survey (n = 400),...Anthonj, Carmen ; Giovannini, Peter ; Kistemann, Thomas
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Construcción de una Estrategia para el Monitoreo Integrado de los Ecosistemas de Alta Montaña en Colombia
We present a synthesis of a proposal for integrated monitoring of high Andean ecosystems in Colombia, formulated through a process of discussion and consultation with multiple stakeholders with experience in monitoring mountain ecosystems in the country. The proposal takes as point of departure the need for developing integrated monitoring systems,...Llambí, Luis Daniel ; Becerra, María Teresa ; Peralvo, Manuel ; Avella, Andrés ; Baruffol, Martín …
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Native Useful Plants of Chile: A Review and Use Patterns
We compiled an inventory of the uses of the native flora of Chile by extracting uses cited in the literature until 2015. The inventory reported use citations for a total of 995 species of useful vascular plants (23% of Chile’s flora). These data were used to test the hypothesis that...Díaz-Forestier, Javiera ; León-Lobos, Pedro ; Marticorena, Alicia ; Celis-Diez, Juan ; Giovannini, Peter
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Current and future potential distributions of three Dracaena Vand. ex L. species under two contrasting climate change scenarios in Africa
Forest undergrowth plants are tightly connected with the shady and humid conditions that occur under the canopy of tropical forests. However, projected climatic changes, such as decreasing precipitation and increasing temperature, negatively affect understory environments by promoting light‐demanding and drought‐tolerant species. Therefore, we aimed to quantify the influence of climate...Bogawski, Paweł ; Damen, Theo ; Nowak, Maciej ; Pędziwiatr, Katarzyna ; Wilkin, Paul …
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Population structure of Betula albosinensis and Betula platyphylla: evidence for hybridization and a cryptic lineage
Background and Aims Differences in local abundance and ploidy level are predicted to impact the direction of introgression between species. Here, we tested these hypotheses on populations of Betula albosinensis (red birch) and Betula platyphylla (white birch) which were thought to differ in ploidy level, the former being tetraploid and...Hu, Ya-Nan ; Zhao, Lei ; Buggs, Richard ; Zhang, Xue-Min ; Li, Jun …
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Ecological speciation in sympatric palms: 3. Genetic map reveals genomic islands underlying species divergence in Howea
Although it is now widely accepted that speciation can occur in the face of continuous gene flow, with little or no spatial separation, the mechanisms and genomic architectures that permit such divergence are still debated. Here, we examined speciation in the face of gene flow in the Howea palms of...Papadopulos, Alexander ; Igea, Javier ; Dunning, Luke ; Osborne, Owen ; Quan, Xueping …
Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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Ecological speciation in sympatric palms: 4. Demographic analyses support speciation of Howea in the face of high gene flow
The idea that populations must be geographically isolated (allopatric) to evolve into separate species has persisted for a long time. It is now clear that new species can also diverge despite ongoing genetic exchange, but few accepted cases of speciation in sympatry have held up when scrutinized using modern approaches....Papadopulos, Alexander ; Igea, Javier ; Smith, Thomas ; Hutton, Ian ; Baker, William …
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Speciation in Howea palms occurred in sympatry, was preceded by ancestral admixture, and was associated with edaphic and phenological adaptation
Howea palms are viewed as one of the most clear-cut cases of speciation in sympatry. The sister species H. belmoreana and H. forsteriana are endemic to the oceanic Lord Howe Island, Australia, where they have overlapping distributions and are reproductively isolated mainly by flowering time differences. However, the potential role...Osborne, Owen ; Ciezarek, Adam ; Wilson, Trevor ; Crayn, Darren ; Hutton, Ian …
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Cartographic material
Madagascar vegetation map (regions)
Regional maps produced for the Madagascar Vegetation Mapping project.Moat, Justin
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Dataset
Madagascar vegetation map data (UTM projection)
This data was produced for the Madagascar Vegetation Mapping project. Data to be used for conservation planning and species mapping.Moat, Justin
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Dataset
Madagascar vegetation map data (Laborde projection)
This data was produced for the Madagascar Vegetation Mapping project. Data to be used for conservation planning and species mapping. Note this is using a estimate of the Laborde projection.Moat, Justin
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Cartographic material
Madagascar vegetation map
This 1:800,000 map was produced for the Madagascar Vegetation Mapping project.Moat, Justin
island, 2001, vegetation, Africa, Madagascar, biodiversity, land surface, physiognomy, and conservation