Climate change poses a great challenge for biodiversity conservation. Several studies exist regarding climate change's impacts on European plants, yet none has investigated how …
Sparsely vegetated habitats of cliffs and screes act as refugia for many regional and local endemic specialized plant taxa most of which have evolved precisely for that type of habitat …
Global plant diversity is at risk due to anthropogenic changes to ecosystems, but given severely limited conservation resources, a reliable prioritisation strategy for species and …
Global change threatens alpine biodiversity and its effects vary across habitat types and biogeographic regions. We explored vegetation changes over the last 20 years on two …
C Ye, H Liu, H Qin, J Shu, Z Zhou, X Jin - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
National key protected wild plants (NKPWPs) are considered flagship species for plant diversity conservation in China. Using data for 1101 species, we characterized NKPWPs …
Functional and phylogenetic diversity analyses can be very helpful for understanding the structure, health, and evolutionary history of a community. In this work, we calculate the …
Relatively recent increases in molecular and geographic data for many taxa in different areas of the world have provided scientists with tools to evaluate biodiversity using …
Global biodiversity is poorly understood, despite its importance for humanity. As biodiversity loss reaches critical levels, greater knowledge of its distribution is needed to concentrate …