The iconic giant Rafflesia flowers are disappearing at an alarming rate, according to new research published in Plants, People, Planet.
Tag - extinction
Alun Salt
A.I. Assistant
Scientists Find Close Relatives Drive Island Plants Extinct
A new study finds native island plants are more likely to go extinct when threatened by invasive cousins from the same family tree.
Dale Maylea
Yew Only Live Twice
Biologists have talked about bringing back extinct species like the dodo, but now botanists have drawn up a list of extinct plants that might be able to return to the wild.
More plants will be ‘losers’ than ‘winners’ in the future, thanks to human activity
Fait vos jeux, but while there will be some winners, the odds are stacked against most plants doing well in the future.
State of the World’s Plants and Fungi: 2 in 5 plants are threatened by extinction (Part 2)
In a previous post, I wrote about a recent review on extinction risk and threats to plants and fungi that contributed to the State of the World’s Plants and Fungi (SOTWPF) report. The first afternoon session of the...
Juniper Kiss
Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part III
This is the third of our quartet of posts looking at the newsworthy world of the blue-greens. Image: David Fuchs / Wikipedia Asteroids, bad for dinosaurs, but good for cyanobacteria? This really good news for...
Nigel Chaffey
Thirty clues to the exceptional diversification of flowering plants
As angiosperms became one of the megadiverse groups of macroscopic eukaryotes, they forged modern ecosystems and promoted the evolution of extant terrestrial biota. Unequal distribution of species among lineages...
Alex Assiry
The loss of genetic diversity threatens the last Afro-Macaronesian subtropical forests
Subtropical African forests are on the verge of extinction due to a long history of exploitation. Considered sanctuaries of exceptional biodiversity, they shelter many endemic and irreplaceable species. Some component...
A puzzle with uniform flowers
Normally you would expect organs to change across evolutionary time. However, this is not always the case, and some clades can be species-rich, but still have very similar flowers.
Native species respond differently to nitrogen addition and disturbance
Nitrogen deposition and fire regime suppression are key drivers of vegetation change in urbanising grasslands. In the natural grasslands that surround Melbourne, Australia, some native species have become rarer...
botanyone
The Plant Messiah by Carlos Magdalena
If you're looking to explain to someone how botany can be exciting, then The Plant Messiah by Carlos Magdalena is an excellent place to start.
Low-altitude mountain ranges provide refugia for two narrow endemics
A small change in altitude can make a big difference in the right place.
Combining incidence and demographic modelling approaches to evaluate metapopulation parameters for an endangered riparian plant
Metapopulations are a central concept in ecology and conservation biology, however estimating key parameters such as colonization rates presents a substantial obstacle to modeling metapopulations in many species. In a...
AoBPLANTS
369,400…and counting(!)
Being an avid supporter of the importance of plants (I do hope that’s come over quite strongly in my various blog items..?), I’m always keen to share with my students [well, any- and everybody really…] how many plant...
