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Phylogeny, biogeography and ecological diversification of New Caledonian palms (Arecaceae).
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Truongsonia (Arecaceae: Arecoideae: Truongsonieae)—a new palm genus and tribe from Vietnam.
A genus and species of palm from the Truong Son Range in Vietnam, Truongsonia lecongkietii, is described as new to science. Phylogenomic analysis strongly supports the placement of the new taxon in subfamily Arecoideae as sister to the African endemic tribe Podococceae, which comprises a single genus Podococcus. A new... -
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Palmas útiles en tres comunidades indígenas de La Pedrera, Amazonia colombiana.
Se estudió el conocimiento y el uso de las palmas por parte de las comunidades indígenas Angostura, Curare y Yukuna, cercanas a la cabecera del corregimiento de La Pedrera, Amazonia colombiana. Entre junio y julio de 2010 se registró información etnobotánica mediante entrevistas estructuradas realizadas a 53 personas informantes de...Palmae, Ethnobotany, La Pedrera (Columbia), Palms, Categories of use, Arecaceae, Indigenous peoples, Traditional knowledge., and Columbia
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Diversidad de comunidades de palmas en el Chocó biogeográfico y su relación con la precipitación.
Los bosques tropicales del Chocó biogeográfico presentan una de las mayores concentraciones de especies de plantas del mundo. Las palmas (Arecaceae) son una de las familias más importantes en las tierras bajas del Chocó, pero su ecología está poco estudiada. Investigamos la diversidad de comunidades de palmas en el Chocó...Palmae, Tropical forests, Biodiversity, Colombia, Arecaceae, Neotropic, and Community ecology
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The Cenozoic history of palms: Global diversification, biogeography and the decline of megathermal forests.
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Genomic and niche divergence in an Amazonian palm complex.
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The global abundance of tree palms.
Aim Palms are an iconic, diverse and often abundant component of tropical ecosystems that provide many ecosystem services. Being monocots, tree palms are evolutionarily, morphologically and physiologically distinct from other trees, and these differences have important consequences for ecosystem services (e.g., carbon sequestration and storage) and in terms of responses... -
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Genera Palmarum - The Evolution and Classification of the Palms
Since the publication of the first edition of Genera Palmarum in 1987, there has been an explosion of interest in this quintessentially tropical flowering plant family. Palms tend to attract attention, perhaps because of their recognisable rather simple growth form, their ecological and economic importance, or indeed simply because of...