Ecological niche modeling of invasive alien plant species in a protected landscape by G.C.B. Paclibar, E.R. Tadiosa

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A checklist of indigenous flora in the Richtersveld National Park confirms high plant diversity in the arid north-western tip of South Africa by Pieter van Wyk, Hugo Bezuidenhout, Norbert Jürgens

“…As a basis for conservation planning, a first comprehensive vascular plant species checklist for the core Richtersveld National Park was compiled, based on the collection of more than 3000 new herbarium vouchers and in total studying over 8000 specimens and more than 4000 iNaturalist observations. …”
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Phytocenotic arrangement of the common hop in the south of western Siberia by M. M. Silantyeva, O. N. Mironenko, N. V. Ovcharova, I. G. Chukhina, Yu. R. Poltaratskaya, A. V. Nebylitsa, O. V. Bychkova, E. P. Myakisheva

“…Plant explorations that resulted in 400 herbarium sheets and 275 geobotanical descriptions were conducted in 2023–2024 in Altai Territory, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Tyumen and Omsk Provinces, and Altai Republic, also covering the adjacent areas of Krasnoyarsk Territory, and Khakassia. …”
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A Collaborative Data Network for the Asia Oceania Region Enabled by Emerging Technologies to Foster Innovation in a Secure and Open Environment by Alison Specht, Kim Bryceson, Shoufeng Cao, Margaret O’Brien, S. M. Guru, Pedro Pizzigatti Correa, Michelle Waycott

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Intraspecific classification of durum wheat: new botanical varieties and forms by O. A. Lyapunova

“…For each of them the diagnosis is given, the type is defined, a herbarium (autotype) and photos are provided.…”
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Morphometric Investigation of a Species Complex in <i>Mimosa</i> Section <i>Batocaulon</i> Series <i>Cordistipulae</i> (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae) by Janaína G. A. Nascimento, Luciano P. Queiroz, Marlon C. Machado, Cássio van den Berg

“…The traditional morphometric approach was capable of objectively dealing with a type of variation that would be difficult to interpret by purely examining herbarium specimens.…”
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Molecular reassessment of diaporthalean fungi associated with strawberry, including the leaf blight fungus, Paraphomopsis obscurans gen. et comb. nov. (Melanconiellaceae) by Dhanushka Udayanga, Shaneya D. Miriyagalla, Dimuthu S. Manamgoda, Kim S. Lewers, Alain Gardiennet, Lisa A. Castlebury

“…In this study, we reassessed the diaporthalean species associated with prominent diseases of strawberry, namely leaf blight, leaf blotch, root rot and petiole blight, based on molecular data and morphological characters using fresh and herbarium collections. Combined analyses of four nuclear loci, 28S ribosomal DNA/large subunit rDNA (LSU), ribosomal internal transcribed spacers 1 and 2 with 5.8S ribosomal DNA (ITS), partial sequences of second largest subunit of RNA polymerase II (RPB2) and translation elongation factor 1-α (TEF1), were used to reconstruct a phylogeny for these pathogens. …”
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COMPARATIVE STEM ANATOMY OF EIGHT SELECTED WILD PLANT SPECIES FROM PAPILIONACEAE FAMILY IN WESTERN DESERT DISTRICT (DWD) by M. O. Mousa, I. M. Ayyed, S. S. Shahatha, N. M. Abood, F. H. Mukhlif, S. A. Alkubaisy, A. M. A. AL-Kasiy

“…., which were Identified in Anbar University Herbarium. Depending on the direct manual cutting method, the transverse section of the stem were prepared, and the samples were photographed and characteristics of the stem gave important differences that are very useful in isolating species taxonomically , the transverse sections varied between circular, tetrangular and polyangular-circular shapes, and the chlorenchyma tissue had a clear variation, as the number of its rows ranged between 1 row in M. laciniata to 4 rows in M. minima. …”
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Characteristics of flora and vegetation of Kolmakhtun Lake – Nature Reserve of local significance of Tomsk Region (West Siberia, Russia) by Valentina P. Amelchenko, Tatiana A. Blyakharchuk, Yulia A. Kharanzhevskaya, Rinat M. Manasypov, Tatiana N. Kataeva

“…Applied methods of research were based on multiyears descriptions of vegetation and flora and includes 30 field geobotanical descriptions, herbarium collections, photographs, results of laboratory analyses of floristic lists by elements of flora. …”
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Impact of Chatbots on User Experience and Data Quality on Citizen Science Platforms by Akasha-Leonie Kessel, Soror Sahri, Sven Groppe, Jinghua Groppe, Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Marc Pignal, Eva Perez Pimparé, Régine Vignes-Lebbe

“…The CS project Les Herbonautes, dedicated to mass digitization of the French National Herbarium, serves as a case study for this paper, which details the development and evaluation of a network of open source LLM agents to assist users during data collection. …”
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PICT: A low‐cost, modular, open‐source camera trap system to study plant–insect interactions by Vincent Droissart, Laura Azandi, Eric Rostand Onguene, Marie Savignac, Thomas B. Smith, Vincent Deblauwe

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Storage Insects on Yam Chips and Their Traditional Management in Northern Benin by Y. L. Loko, A. Dansi, M. Tamo, A. H. Bokonon-Ganta, P. Assogba, M. Dansi, R. Vodouhè, A. Akoegninou, A. Sanni

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The InBIO Barcoding Initiative Database: contribution to the knowledge of DNA barcodes of the vascular plants of north-eastern Portugal by João Queirós, Rodrigo Silva, Catarina J. Pinho, Hélia Vale-Gonçalves, Ricardo Pita, Paulo Alves, Pedro Beja, Joana Paupério, Miguel Porto

“…This is one of the public releases of the IBI database, which provides genetic and distributional data for several taxa.All vouchers are deposited in the Herbarium of the Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP) and their DNA barcodes are publicly available in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD), NCBI GenBank online databases and International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC).…”
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Ethnobotanical Survey and Conservation Strategies of Medicinal Plants Used in Masulita Sub-County in Wakiso District. by Musoke, Ronald

“…Medicinal plant specimens were collected with the assistance of herbalists, pressed, and identified at the National Herbarium in Makerere University, Uganda. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, pie charts, percentages, bar graphs, and column graphs were used to present the data. …”
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Phytolith assemblages from palm leaves and palm-leaf manuscripts: what is the difference and what it could mean? by Anastasia Poliakova, Anastasia Poliakova, Anastasia Poliakova, Giovanni Ciotti, Giovanni Ciotti, Giovanni Ciotti, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, Jörg Fromm, Jörg Fromm

“…Dried leaf material was obtained from the fresh one by drying the leaves in air. Herbarium samples were obtained from two independent herbaria, specimen origin comprises S and SE Asia with the main focus on South India and Sri Lanka. …”
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Diet-microbiome covariation across three giraffe species in a close-contact zone by Elin Videvall, Brian A. Gill, Michael B. Brown, Hannah K. Hoff, Bethan L. Littleford-Colquhoun, Peter Lokeny, Paul M. Musili, Tyler R. Kartzinel

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Annotated Checklist of Poroid Hymenochaetoid Fungi in Central Asia: Taxonomic Diversity, Ecological Roles, and Potential Distribution Patterns by Yusufjon Gafforov, Manzura Yarasheva, Xue-Wei Wang, Milena Rašeta, Yelena Rakhimova, Lyazzat Kyzmetova, Kanaim Bavlankulova, Sylvie Rapior, Jia-Jia Chen, Ewald Langer, Burkhon Munnavarov, Zafar Aslonov, Bobozoda Bakokhoja, Li-Wei Zhou

“…By conducting field surveys, collecting basidiomes, and reviewing the literature and herbarium records from five Central Asian countries, we compiled a comprehensive checklist of these fungi. …”
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Microbes and metabolites of a plant-parasite interaction: Deciphering the ecology of Tetrastigma host choice in the world’s largest parasitic flower, Rafflesia by Jeanmaire Molina, Roche C. de Guzman, Rinat Abzalimov, Wenkai Huang, Anusha Guruprasad, Ronniel Pedales, Adhityo Wicaksono, Destiny Davis, John Rey Callado, Hans Bänziger, Piyakaset Suksathan, William Eaton, Pride Yin, Marco Bürger, Mick Erickson, Stephen Jones, James Adams, Susan Pell

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Robustness and limitations of maximum entropy in plant community assembly by Jelyn Gerkema, Daniel E. Bunker, Andrew M. Cunliffe, Erika Bazzato, Michela Marignani, Tommaso Sitzia, Isabelle Aubin, Stefano Chelli, Julieta A. Rosell, Peter Poschlod, Josep Penuelas, Arildo S. Dias, Christian Rossi, Tanvir A. Shovon, Juan A. Campos, Mark C. Vanderwel, Sharif A. Mukul, Bruno E.L. Cerabolini, Thomas Sibret, Bruno Hérault, Sylvain Schmitt, Pedro Higuchi, James L. Tsakalos, Decky I. Junaedi, Yun-Peng Zhao, Vanessa Minden, Ana Carolina da Silva, Tereza Mašková, Roberto Canullo, Ning Dong, Edwin T. Pos

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Large range sizes link fast life histories with high species richness across wet tropical tree floras by Timothy R. Baker, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Shin-ichiro Aiba, Perpetra Akite, Miguel Alexiades, Everton Almeida, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Esteban Alvarez Davila, Christian Amani, Ana Andrade, Luiz Aragao, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Eric Arets, Luzmila Arroyo, Peter Ashton, Suspense A. Averti Ifo, Gerardo A. C. Aymard, Michel Baisie, William Balee, Michael Balinga, Lindsay F. Banin, Olaf Banki, Christopher Baraloto, Jorcely Barroso, Jean-Francois Bastin, Hans Beeckman, Serge Begne, Natacha Nssi Bengone, Nicholas Berry, Wemo Betian, Vincent Bezard, Lilian Blanc, Pascal Boeckx, Damien Bonal, Frans Bongers, Francis Q. Brearley, Roel Brienen, Foster Brown, Musalmah Bt. Nasaradin, Benoit Burban, David F. R. P. Burslem, Plinio Camargo, Jose Luis Camargo, Wendeson Castro, Carlos Ceron, Victor Chama Moscoso, Colin Chapman, Jerome Chave, Eric Chezeaux, Murray Collins, James Comiskey, David Coomes, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Flavia R. C. Costa, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Lola da Costa, Douglas C. Daly, Martin Dančák, Armandu Daniels, Greta Dargie, Stuart Davies, Charles De Canniere, Thales de Haulleville, Jhon del Aguila Pasquel, Geraldine Derroire, Kyle G. Dexter, Anthony Di Fiore, Marie-Noel K. Djuikouo, Jean-Louis Doucet, Vincent Droissart, Gerald Eilu, Thaise Emillio, Julien Engel, Bocko Yannick Enock, Fidele Evouna Ondo, Corneille Ewango, Sophie Fauset, Ted R. Feldpausch, Muhammad Fitriadi, Gerardo Flores Llampazo, Ernest G. Foli, Gabriella Fredriksson, David R. Galbraith, Martin Gilpin, Emanuel Gloor, Christelle Gonmadje, Rene Guillen Villaroel, Jefferson Hall, Keith C. Hamer, Alan Hamilton, Olivier Hardy, Terese Hart, Radim Hédl, Rafael Herrera, Niro Higuchi, Claude Marcel Hladik, Eurídice Honorio Coronado, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Walter Huaraca Huasco, Wannes Hubau, Muhammad Idhamsyah, Sascha A. Ismail, Kath Jeffery, Eliana Jimenez, Tommaso Jucker, Elizabeth Kearsley, Lip Khoon Kho, Timothy Killeen, Kanehiro Kitayama, William Laurance, Susan Laurance, Miguel Leal, Simon L. Lewis, Stanislav Lhota, Jeremy Lindsell, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Jon Lovett, Richard Lowe, William E. Magnusson, Jean-Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Beatriz Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Andrew Marshall, Colin Maycock, Faustin Mbayu, Casimiro Mendoza, Irina Mendoza Polo, Faizah Metali, Vianet Mihindou, Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza, Sam Moore, Patrick Mucunguzi, Jacques Mukinzi, Pantaleo Munishi, Laszlo Nagy, Petrus Naisso, David Neill, Adriano Nogueira Lima, Percy Nunez Vargas, Lucas Ojo, Walter Palacios, Nadir Pallqui Camacho, Alexander Parada Gutierrez, Julie Peacock, Kelvin S.-H. Peh, Antonio Pena Cruz, Colin Pendry, Toby Pennington, Maria Cristina Penuela-Mora, Pascal Petronelli, Oliver L. Phillips, Georgia Pickavance, G. John Pipoly, Nigel Pitman, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, Ghillean T. Prance, Adriana Prieto, Richard B. Primack, Lan Qie, Simon A. Queenborough, Terry Sunderland, Carlos Quesada, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Jan Reitsma, Maxime Réjou-Méchain, Anand Roopsind, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Kamariah Abu Salim, Rafael Salomao, Ismayadi Samsoedin, Muhd Shahruney Saparudin, Juliana Schietti, Ricardo A. Segovia, Julio Serrano, Rafizah Serudia, Douglas Sheil, Natalino Silva, Javier Silva Espejo, Marcos Silveira, Murielle Simo-Droissart, James Singh, Bonaventure Sonké, Thaise Emilio Lopes De Sousa, Juliana Stropp, Rahayu Sukri, Terry Sunderland, Martin Svátek, Michael Swaine, Hermann Taedoumg, Joey Talbot, Sylvester Tan, James Taplin, David Taylor, Hans ter Steege, John Terborgh, Armando Torres-Lezama, John Tshibamba Mukendi, Darlington Tuagben, Peter van de Meer, Geertje van der Heijden, Peter van der Hout, Mark van Nieuwstadt, Bert van Ulft, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Ronald Vernimmen, Barbara Vinceti, Simone Vieira, Ima Celia Guimaries Vieira, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Jason Vleminckx, Lee White, Simon Willcock, Mathew Williams, John T. Woods, Tze Leong Yao, Ishak Yassir, Roderick Zagt, Lise Zemagho

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