Species exposed to anthropogenic climate change can acclimate, adapt, move, or be
extirpated. It is often assumed that movement will be the dominant response, with …

For years, metallophytes of both natural and human-influenced metalliferous soils have
focussed considerable attention due to their unique appearance and ability to colonize often …

Changes in DNA sequences affecting cryptic intraspecific variability are very important
mechanisms of plant microevolutionary processes, initiating species diversification. In …

Ecological restoration of degraded metal-rich habitats and bare metal-rich soils created by
mining activities has nowadays become a major environmental issue to reduce mining …

Methods–Almost all the herbarium materials of supposed Cu-endemics available in BR and
BRLU have been revised and all relevant taxonomic revisions have been consulted …

Plant communities of soils naturally enriched in copper and cobalt in Katanga (DR Congo)
are critically threatened in the short term due to mining activities. For biodiversity …

Cuprophytes are plants that mostly occur on Cu‐rich soil. In South Central Africa, these
species are threatened by intensive mining exploitation destroying their habitats …

Metal hyperaccumulation in plants is an ecological trait whose biological significance
remains debated, in particular because the selective pressures that govern its evolutionary …

Waste deposits produced by metal mining and smelting activities provide extremely difficult
habitats for plant colonization and growth. Therefore, plants spontaneously colonizing such …

Mining activities can result in a pollution legacy of metal and metalloid containing soils and
wastes. In this study concentrations of the metals and metalloids Al, As, Ca, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe …