Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria

G Albani Rocchetti, A Carta, A Mondoni, S Godefroid… - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
Resurrecting extinct species is a fascinating and challenging idea for scientists and the
general public. Whereas some theoretical progress has been made for animals, the …

Fungal biodiversity and conservation mycology in light of new technology, big data, and changing attitudes

LA Lofgren, JE Stajich - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Fungi have successfully established themselves across seemingly every possible niche,
substrate, and biome. They are fundamental to biogeochemical cycling, interspecies …

Herbarium collections remain essential in the age of community science

I Eckert, A Bruneau, DA Metsger, S Joly… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The past decade has yielded more biodiversity observations from community science than
the past century of traditional scientific collection. This rapid influx of data is promising for …

Floristic Composition, Structure, and Aboveground Biomass of the Moraceae Family in an Evergreen Andean Amazon Forest, Ecuador

W García-Cox, R López-Tobar, RJ Herrera-Feijoo… - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
The current study determined the floristic composition, structure, and aboveground biomass
(AGB) of the individuals of the Moraceae family. This occurred in order to value them as a …

Modelling Climatically Suitable Areas for Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King) and Their Shifts across Neotropics: The Role of Protected Areas

RJ Herrera-Feijoo, B Torres, R López-Tobar… - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King) is a species with great economic interest
worldwide and is classified as vulnerable to extinction by the IUCN. Deforestation and …

Adopting a root: Documenting ecological and cultural signatures of plant translocations in northwestern North America

NJ Turner, C Geralda Armstrong… - American …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, there has been an increasing recognition of the role humans play in the
structure, composition, and function of ecosystems. Ethnoecological documentation of …

Botanical Collection Patterns and Conservation Categories of the Most Traded Timber Species from the Ecuadorian Amazon: The Role of Protected Areas

R López-Tobar, RJ Herrera-Feijoo, RG Mateo… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Ecuadorian Amazon is home to a rich biodiversity of woody plant species. Nonetheless,
their conservation remains difficult, as some areas remain poorly explored and lack …

Tracking population genetic signatures of local extinction with herbarium specimens

C Rosche, A Baasch, K Runge, P Brade… - Annals of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Habitat degradation and landscape fragmentation
dramatically lower population sizes of rare plant species. Decreasing population sizes may …

Identification of herbarium specimen sheet components from high‐resolution images using deep learning

KM Thompson, R Turnbull, E Fitzgerald… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced computer vision techniques hold the potential to mobilise vast quantities of
biodiversity data by facilitating the rapid extraction of text‐and trait‐based data from …

Hybrids as mirrors of the past: genomic footprints reveal spatio-temporal dynamics and extinction risk of alpine extremophytes in the mountains of Central Asia

A Wróbel, E Klichowska, M Nobis - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Hybridization is one of the key processes sha** lineage diversification, particularly in
regions that experienced strong climate oscillations. The alpine biome with its rich history of …