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The Bean Bag no. 26
The BB is designed to promote communication among research scientists concerned with legume systematics. To achieve this goal the BB is issued in May and November of each year and features five columns: From the Editors, News (meetings, major events, announcements, etc.), New Readers, Gleanings, and Recent Legume Literature. Data... -
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Samara no. 22
The newsletter of the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP). Samara provides information and inspiration for MSBP partners, usually each issue is themed. It also gives a flavour of the successes of the MSBP for other interested recipients. The theme of this issue is climate change.Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, Seed banks, Biodiversity, Ex situ conservation, and Climate change
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Green Plants in the Red: A Baseline Global Assessment for the IUCN Sampled Red List Index for Plants.
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Variability, host range, delimitation and neotypification of Amanita simulans (Amanita section Vaginatae): collections associated with Helianthemum grasslands, and epitypification of A. lividopallescens.
Several collections of Amanita species from section Vaginatae have been reported to be strictly associated with Helianthemum plants growing in grasslands, a still largely under-explored ectomycorrhizal habitat. The main aim of this study was to investigate the taxonomic status and phylogenetic position of strictly Helianthemum-associated Amanita sect. Vaginatae taxa, informally...Pluteoid clade, Fungi, Basidiomycota, ITS sequences, Amanita lividopallescens, Biodiversity, Amanita simulans, Taxonomy, Pluteineae, and Amanitaceae
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Seychellaria barbata (Triuridaceae), a new species from Marojejy National Park, Madagascar.
Seychellaria barbata, a new species of Triuridaceae, is described and illustrated. The species was discovered in 2015 during fieldwork in Marojejy National Park (Northern Madagascar). Seychellaria barbata possesses long hairs at the apex and margins of the larger tepals of male flowers, whereas all its congeners are characterized by glabrous...Conservation, Key words, Madagascar, Marojejy National Park, Flora, Biodiversity, Seychellaria, Mycoheterotrophic plants, Inflorescence, Taxonomy, and Bracteole
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A synopsis of Oxypetalum (Apocynaceae) in Bolivia, with the description of one new species and a key to species in Bolivia.
We present a synopsis of Oxypetalum (Asclepiadoideae, Apocynaceae) in Bolivia. In addition, one new species, Oxypetalum urceolatum, is described, illustrated, and compared to its putative closest relatives. Oxypetalum urceolatum forms a complex with O. erianthum, O. brachystemma, O. dactylostelma, O. dombeyanum, O. molle, O. pearsonii, and O. fuscum. Morphologically, O....New records, Asclepiadoideae, IUCN Red List, Bolivia, Oxypetalum urceolatum, Taxonomy, Eudicots, and Biodiversity
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SDG 1: No poverty balancing conservation and livelihoods in the Chimanimani Forest belt, Mozambique.
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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 Manokwari Declaration: Challenges ahead in conserving 70% of Tanah Papua’s forests
The Manokwari Declaration is an unprecedented pledge by the governors of Indonesia’s two New Guinea provinces to promote conservation and become SE Asia’s new Costa Rica. This is an exciting, yet challenging endeavour that will require working on many fronts that transcend single disciplines. Because Indonesian New Guinea has the...Cámara-Leret, Rodrigo ; Schuiteman, Andre ; Utteridge, Timothy ; Bramley, Gemma ; Deverell, Richard …
Policy, Manokwari Declaration, Biodiversity, Conservation planning, and Indigenous peoples
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Enset in Ethiopia: a poorly characterized but resilient starch staple.
Enset (Ensete ventricosum, Musaceae) is an African crop that currently provides the staple food for approx. 20 million Ethiopians. Whilst wild enset grows over much of East and Southern Africa and the genus extends across Asia to China, it has only ever been domesticated in the Ethiopian Highlands. Here, smallholder... -
Policy report
Kew and the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.
Plants and fungi are essential for life on Earth and provide natural resources such as food, medicine and clean water. They sustain life through oxygen, carbon and nutrient cycling, and support human well-being. Kew is working with partners in more than 100 countries, through a dedicated team of over 300...Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework, Plant conservation, Biodiversity, and Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
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The climatic challenge: Which plants will people use in the next century?
More than 31,000 useful plant species have been documented to fulfil needs and services for humans or the animals and environment we depend on. Despite this diversity, humans currently satisfy most requirements with surprisingly few plant species; for example, just three crops – rice, wheat and maize – comprise more... -
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New Guinea has the world’s richest island flora
New Guinea is the world’s largest tropical island and has fascinated naturalists for centuries. Home to some of the best-preserved ecosystems on the planet3 and to intact ecological gradients—from mangroves to tropical alpine grasslands—that are unmatched in the Asia-Pacific region4,5, it is a globally recognized centre of biological and cultural... -
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Top-down and bottom-up processes to implement biological monitoring in protected areas
Achieving biodiversity conservation objectives and targets requires environmental management agencies to undertake monitoring. Several management practices have been used but are they successful? Using SANParks as an example, we focus on three cases of national parks that use different techniques to implement environmental monitoring. We assessed a top-down, bottom-up and...Cowell, Carly ; Bissett, Charlene ; Ferreira, Sam M.
Adaptive management, METT, Biodiversity, Bottom-up, Top-down, and Integrated monitoring
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Native trees of Mexico: diversity, distribution, uses and conservation
Background Mexico is one of the most floristically rich countries in the world. Despite significant contributions made on the understanding of its unique flora, the knowledge on its diversity, geographic distribution and human uses, is still largely fragmented. Unfortunately, deforestation is heavily impacting this country and native tree species...Tellez, Oswaldo ; Mattana, Efisio ; Diazgranados, Mauricio ; Kühn, Nicola ; Castillo-Lorenzo, Elena …
Plant Science, Biodiversity, Biogeography, Conservation Biology, and Research article
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The Egyptian Ascomycota 1: Genus Aspergillus
Since Pier Antonio Micheli described and published genus Aspergillus in Nova Plantarum Genera in 1729 the genus attracted an immense interest. The published Egyptian literature on the genus is scattered and fragmentary. By screening the available sources of information since 1921, it was possible to figure out a range of...Abdel-Azeem, Ahmed ; Abu-Elsaoud, Abdelghafar ; Darwish, Amira ; Balbool, Bassem ; Abo Nouh, Fatma …
check-list, Moubasher, Novel taxa, Biodiversity, Literature, Taxonomy, and Herbaria catalogues
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Lessons learned as Erica turgida is returned.
Erica turgida, a small unassuming pink bushy heath species was listed as ‘Extinct in the Wild’ in 1996. It was last seen in habitat at Kenilworth Racecourse by South African botanist, Elsie Esterhuizen who made an herbarium collection and gave material for propagation to Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden. It once occurred...Hitchcock, Anthony ; Williams, Jenny ; Cowell, Carly
Restoration, Re-introduction, Ericaceae, South Africa, Fynbos, Biodiversity, and Cape Town (South Africa)
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Research report
IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology 2.0: descriptive profiles for biomes and ecosystem functional groups
Ecosystems are critically important components of Earth’s biological diversity and as the natural capital that sustains human life and well-being. Yet all of the world’s ecosystems show hallmarks of human influence, and many are under acute risks of collapse, with consequences for habitats of species, genetic diversity, ecosystem services, sustainable...Keith, David A. ; Ferrer-Paris, Jose R. ; Nicholson, Emily ; Kingsford, Richard T.
Classification, Freshwater, Red Data/Red List, Biome, Biodiversity, Terrestrial ecosystems, Marine, and Ecosystems
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Research report
Unlocking why plants and fungi matter : impacts from Kew Science 2012-2018.
In this booklet we seek to illustrate, through selected examples, how a combination of Kew’s extensive collections, databases, scientific expertise and global partnerships have enabled us to make an invaluable and relevant contribution to research, conservation and training in plant and fungal science, addressing some of the biggest challenges facing...Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Plant uses, Economic botany, Policy, Plant conservation, Biodiversity, Plant diversity, Public awareness, and Fungal diversity
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Research report
Exploring the Impact of Political Regimes on Biodiversity
National governments are the main actors responsible for mapping and protecting their biodiversity, but countries differ in their capacity, willingness, and effectiveness to do so. We quantify the global biodiversity managed by different regime types and developed a tool to explore the links between level of democracy and other key...Zizka, Alexander ; Rydén, Oskar ; Edler, Daniel ; Klein, Johannes ; Aronsson, Heléne …
Democracy, Regime type, Autocracy, Specimen collection, and Biodiversity
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Nocturnal pollination: an overlooked ecosystem service vulnerable to environmental change.
Existing assessments of the ecosystem service of pollination have been largely restricted to diurnal insects, with a particular focus on generalist foragers such as wild and honey bees. As knowledge of how these plant-pollinator systems function, their relevance to food security and biodiversity, and the fragility of these mutually beneficial...Macgregor, Callum J. ; Scott-Brown, Alison S.
Artificial light at night, Climate change, Plant-insect interactions, Biodiversity, Pollution, and Pollinators
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Insect pollination is important in a smallholder bean farming system
Background Many crops are dependent on pollination by insects. Habitat management in agricultural landscapes can support pollinator services and even augment crop production. Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is an important legume for the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in many low-income countries, particularly so in East Africa. While this...Elisante, Filemon ; Ndakidemi, Patrick ; Arnold, Sarah E. J. ; Belmain, Steven R. ; Gurr, Geoff M. …
Ecology, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Science, Agricultural Science, Research article, and Entomology
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Kupeantha yabassi (Coffeeae-Rubiaceae), a new Critically Endangered shrub species of the Ebo Forest area, Littoral Region, Cameroon.
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The potential for income improvement and biodiversity conservation via specialty coffee in Ethiopia.
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Relationships between resource availability and elevation vary between metrics creating gradients of nutritional complexity
Plant and animal community composition changes at higher elevations on mountains. Plant and animal species richness generally declines with elevation, but the shape of the relationship differs between taxa. There are several proposed mechanisms, including the productivity hypotheses; that declines in available plant biomass confers fewer resources to consumers, thus...Lee, Mark A. ; Burger, Grace ; Green, Emma R. ; Kooij, Pepijn W.
Grassland , Biodiversity, Protein, Forage, and Altitude
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Plant Diversity Conservation Challenges and Prospects—The Perspective of Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank.
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Distribution changes in páramo plants from the equatorial high Andes in response to increasing temperature and humidity variation since 1880.
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Taxonomic revision of the threatened African genus Pseudohydrosme Engl. (Araceae), with P. ebo, a new, critically endangered species from Ebo, Cameroon
This is the first revision in more than 100 years of the African genus Pseudohydrosme, formerly considered endemic to Gabon. Closely related to Anchomanes, Pseudohydrosme is distinct from Anchomanes because of its 2-3-locular ovary (vs. unilocular), peduncle concealed by cataphylls at anthesis and far shorter than the spathe (vs. exposed,...Cheek, Martin ; Tchiengué, Barthélemy ; van der Burgt, Xander