Marginal habitats, previously thought to be subsets of the rain forest, have distinct evolutionary paths, challenging our understanding of the Atlantic Forest's diversity.
Tag - biodiversity hotspot
Fi Gennu
Ants a principal pollinator for a threatened member of the Proteaceae
The plant is impervious to the pollen damage ants usually cause.
Erin Zimmerman
Scientists call for action to tackle a tree species invading Jamaica’s national parks
An Australian escapee from a botanical garden, now accounts for more than 10% of tree stems in a Jamaican National Park
Dale Maylea
Population variation in germination strategies in an edaphic specialist
Endemic species in biodiversity hotspots are often dependent on edaphic conditions and germination strategies that allow them to persist under climatically variable conditions. Torres-Martinez et al. tested whether...
botanyone
Specialisation and modularity of plant-pollinator networks
Modularity is the tendency of certain species to consistently interact with each other. It is a ubiquitous and important property of ecological networks that can determine the level of specialisation of species within...
Gene flow, drift and populations of Sardinian Aquilegia
The Mediterranean Basin is an important region for plant biodiversity, but there are relatively few studies of fine-scale genetic variation. Garrido et al. assess the spatial genetic structure of all known locations of...
