Hedgerows may provide habitat for forest plants to colonise to travel in Europe's patchwork woodland.
Tag - habitat fragmentation
Fi Gennu
Low-intensity logging and hunting have long-term effects on seed dispersal but not fecundity in Afrotropical forests
Hunting and logging can alter ecological communities, but their long-term effects are seldom studied in Afrotropical forests. Tropical trees respond to environmental disturbance on timescales that usually surpass the...
William Salter
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
Pollen limitation and reproductive assurance in a fragmented landscape
Humans have transformed landscapes, leaving remnant habitats embedded within a complex matrix. For many plants, the associated factors of decreased population size and increased land-use intensity surrounding them are...
How diverse do you need biodiversity to be?
Intensification of agriculture has led to a decline in pollinators. One reason is the loss of key species to support bees and flies, but how diverse a mix of plants to you need to support an ecosystem?
Dale Maylea
Does the seed bank contribute to the build-up of a genetic extinction debt for grassland populations of Campanula rotundifolia?
Genetic diversity was highest in above-ground populations, though below-ground populations contained 8 % of unique alleles that were absent above-ground.
Genetic diversity of wild papaya
In order to determine whether genetic architecture stems from pre-Pleistocene events or refugia, Chávez-Pesqueira and Núñez-Farfán assess genetic diversity and population dynamics of 19 populations of wild papaya...
High molecular diversity in rare European Sorbus domestica
Unexpectedly high levels of molecular diversity are found within populations of Sorbus domestica, irrespective of their location.
Adaptive and neutral variation in Psilopeganum sinense
Natural selection and genetic drift are important evolutionary forces in determining genetic and phenotypic differentiation in plant populations.
