Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)
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Fauxcurrence: simulating multi-species occurrences for null models in species distribution modelling and biogeography
(2022-12)Defining appropriate null expectations for species distribution hypotheses is important because sampling bias and spatial autocorrelation can produce realistic, but ecologically meaningless, geographic patterns. Generating ... -
A synopsis of Philippine Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) Jay Edneil
(2022-02-09)A taxonomic synopsis of Philippine Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) is presented. Following a study of 138 published names and their types, we accept 98 Cyrtandra species for the Philippine flora. Except for C. angularis, C. ... -
Equine grass sickness (a multiple systems neuropathy) is associated with alterations in the gastrointestinal mycobiome
(2021-10-09)Background Equine grass sickness (EGS) is a multiple systems neuropathy of grazing horses of unknown aetiology. An apparently identical disease occurs in cats, dogs, rabbits, hares, sheep, alpacas and llamas. Many of ... -
Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact
(2021-12)Recognizing the imperative to evaluate species recovery and conservation impact, in 2012 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) called for development of a “Green List of Species” (now the IUCN Green ... -
Hybridization: a ‘double-edged sword’ for Neotropical plant diversity
(2022-05)Hybridization can facilitate both evolutionary diversification and extinction and has had a critical role in plant evolution, with c. 25% of species known to hybridize in some temperate floras. However, in the species-rich ... -
Sexing cycads - a potential saviour
(2022-04)The first complete cycad genome offers an invaluable solution to sex determination, one of the largest conservation challenges in these enigmatic plants. -
Climatic niche lability but growth form conservatism in the African woody flora
(2022-05)Climatic niche evolution during the diversification of tropical plants has received little attention in Africa. To address this, we characterised the climatic niche of >4000 tropical African woody species, distinguishing ... -
Phylogenomic discordance suggests polytomies along the backbone of the large genus Solanum
(2022-04)Premise Evolutionary studies require solid phylogenetic frameworks, but increased volumes of phylogenomic data have revealed incongruent topologies among gene trees in many organisms both between and within genomes. Some ... -
Assessment of a novel microalgae-cork based technology for removing antibiotics, pesticides and nitrates from groundwater
(2022-04-29)Groundwater pollution has increased in recent years due to the intensification of agricultural and livestock activities. This results in a significant reduction in available freshwater resources. Here, we have studied the ... -
Global maps of soil temperature
(2022-05-22)Research in global change ecology relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from estimates of air temperature in open areas at around 2 m above the ground. These climatic grids do not reflect conditions below vegetation ... -
Incomplete lineage sorting and local extinction shaped the complex evolutionary history of the Paleogene relict conifer genus, Chamaecyparis (Cupressaceae)
(2022-07)Inferring accurate biogeographic history of plant taxa with an East Asia (EA)-North America (NA) is usually hindered by conflicting phylogenies and a poor fossil record. The current distribution of Chamaecyparis (false ... -
Brazilian Flora 2020: Leveraging the power of a collaborative scientific network
(2022-02)The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies. ... -
The symmetry spectrum in a hybridising, tropical group of rhododendrons
(2022-07)Many diverse plant clades possess bilaterally symmetrical flowers and specialised pollination syndromes, suggesting that these traits may promote diversification. We examined the evolution of diverse floral morphologies ... -
Sulettaria, a new ginger genus in the flora of the Philippines
(2022-03-24)Collections made in Zamboanga Peninsula in 2021 were identified as Sulettaria longituba, a species occurring in nearby Borneo, as well as Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra. Sulettaria is therefore reported here as a new ... -
Using molecular data to test the generic placement of a new and unusual ginger species from the Philippines
(2022-03-13)A collection of a ginger from Zamboanga Peninsula, Philippines, superficially resembles Hornstedtia but is very different from all other known Philippine species especially by the elongate rachis and absence of sterile ... -
MASTREE+: Time-series of plant reproductive effort from six continents
(2022-05)Significant gaps remain in understanding the response of plant reproduction to environmental change. This is partly because measuring reproduction in long-lived plants requires direct observation over many years and such ... -
One transfer to Primulina (Gesneriaceae) and amended descriptions for P. crassifolia and P. quanbaensis from northern Vietnam
(2022-03-08)We transfer Chirita crassifolia to Primulina as P. crassifolia and provide detailed amended descriptions for this species and for P. quanbaensis, both species found in the karst habitats in the Bat Dai Son mountains in Ha ... -
Out of the wild: the wild (and often weedy) roots of our crops
(2022-05)This article is a Commentary on Muñoz-Rodríguez et al. (2022), 234: 1185–1194. We commonly treat the plants beneficial to us – those we cultivate and depend upon – as distinct and disconnected from plant diversity in the ... -
AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora
(2021-09-30)We introduce the AusTraits database - a compilation of values of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 448 traits across 28,640 taxa from field campaigns, published ... -
The first genome for the Cape Primrose Streptocarpus rexii (Gesneriaceae), a model plant for studying meristem-driven shoot diversity
(2022-04-03)Cape Primroses (Streptocarpus, Gesneriaceae) are an ideal study system for investigating the genetics underlying species diversity in angiosperms. Streptocarpus rexii has served as a model species for plant developmental ...