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Poa remota, previously known in Hungary only from the northern part of the Hungarian Middle Range, was found in the Bakony Mountains, the southern part of the mountain range. The species was recorded at three localities in the central part of the „Öreg-Bakony” geographic unit, in the valley system of the „Fekete-séd” stream. Similar to other Centra...

We explore gathering practices related to woody species for firewood, fruits and seeds by Middle and Late Holocene hunter gatherer occupations (between ca. 6000 and ca. 950 YP) in the central area of Argentina. Firewood was one of the main vegetable resources used during the occupation of rockshelters (N=5) in Ongamira valley (Córdoba) but also the...

Alexander von Humboldt studied plant geography from the early 1790s onwards. In the “Essay on the Geography of Plants” (1807) he presents a field of science that encompasses man and nature, aesthetics and quantitative sciences. This paper suggests a novel approach to this complex research program. A close reading of the notes on plant geography tak...

Ce polycopié a exploré les diverses facettes de l'écologie scientifique, essentielle pour relever les défis environnementaux, notamment pour les spécialistes en sol et eau. Il a clarifié les concepts fondamentaux et les interactions complexes au sein des écosystèmes, tout en soulignant l'importance de la phytogéographie et des approches pluridiscip...

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND The first Herbaria that we have evidence of were small collections for the personal use of apothecaries and physicians interested, fundamentally, in the therapeutic properties of the plant world. However, the appearance of the Herbarium as an institution dates back to the 16th century, and was always associated with the...

New findings that complement the species composition of the flora of vascular plants in the territory of the Emirate and the UAE as a whole were made during the floristic research in the Emirate of Fujairah (the United Arab Emirates – UAE) in 2017–2022. The article provides data on 8 new or rare ergasiophygophytes (cultivated and running wild pl...

To understand the ecoepidemiology of fleas and their interactions with domestic and wild animals, it is necessary to decode the cycles of flea abundance in relation to host species and environmental factors. The province of Misiones, known for its biodiversity and land use changes, provides an excellent study location. We assessed the diversity, pr...

This research purpose was focused to document the traditional ethnobotanical knowledge (TEK) associated with important wild plants and indigenous communities residing in mountainous zone of District Sudhnoti of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan and to determine their conservation status with suggestions and recommendations to protect and propagate t...

Coccoloba uvifera L. (seagrape) is a primarily dioecious neotropical tree species which often grows in the beach-forest transitional ecotone of coastal strand vegetation. We used five maternally inherited non-coding chloroplast regions to characterize the phytogeography of C. uvifera collected across the Caribbean Basin and Florida. Bayesian analys...

The Shandong Peninsula, the largest peninsula in China, is situated at the estuary of the Yellow River and is bordered by both the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. This region is renowned for its rich plant diversity. However, the historical origins of these plant species remain poorly understood. This study analyzed 2410 shared species from 865 gener...

Societal Impact Statement Unraveling the genetic intricacies and evolutionary history of Asian Hickories through advanced genome sequencing gives valuable insights into their ecological adaptations. Understanding the impact of historical dynamics, climate fluctuations, and geographical barriers on Asian hickories not only contributes to scientific...

In accordance with the 92/43/EEC “Habitats” Directive, Mediterranean temporary ponds are identified as a priority natural habitat within the European context. They are a very interesting and unique habitat type, as ecological conditions can vary greatly in a short period of time. Due to their small size, many Mediterranean hydrophytic bryophytes ty...

The art of drying plants has a long tradition. It was already known in the Middle Ages as a form of documenting flora. It began to develop more intensively in Europe in the 16th century. This method of documenting plant collections quickly gained recognition among scientists. Its role and importance has changed throughout historical periods. The cu...

Background: Endemism is essential in biodiversity, biogeography, and conservation tasks. Based on herbarium specimens kept in some local herbaria, many published literature, and available information, we compiled a comprehensive list and an updated assessment of the Egyptian endemic and near-endemic taxa. The application of quantitative approaches...

The authors discovered a new population of Hieracium lucidum Guss., a species hitherto considered strictly endemic to Monte Gallo. Useful elements for the ecological characterisation of the new population are provided. The stretch of carbonate coastline between the Egadi Islands and the western portion of the Province of Palermo displays a very hig...

This study addresses the complex taxonomy and distribution of the genus Portulaca L. (Portulacaceae) within the Balkans, focusing on the often-debated species composition and distribution patterns in the P. oleracea aggregate. Our research aims to resolve this ambiguity by addressing two key questions: 1) Which Portulaca taxa are present in the Bal...

The authors present the most important floristic data of Tolna and Baranya coun­ties, col­lected together or separately in the last 15 years, or observed by other data providers. In total, occur­rence data of 140 taxa are reported. Most of them are protected species in Hungary, but the list also includes rarer weeds (Ado­nis flammea, Althaea cannab...

This work presents the first comprehensive revision of Iranian Rorida J. F. Gmel. based on extensive field surveys, herbarium visits, literature review, and micromorphological investigations. Our taxonomic assessment shows that these taxa can be delimited from each other by a combination of habit, leaf size and morphology, indumentum type, details...

Since its coinage ca . 1850 AD by Philip Barker Webb, the biogeographical region of Macaronesia, consisting of the North Atlantic volcanic archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira with the tiny Selvagens, the Canaries and Cabo Verde, and for some authors different continental coastal strips, has been under dispute. Herein, after a brief introduction on...

Aims: To analyse the syntaxonomy of open, deciduous woodlands at the southern margin of the steppe zone in the colline and montane belts of the Pamir-Alai, western Tian Shan and Iranian Mountains (Irano-Turanian region). Study area: Tajikistan (Middle Asia) and Iran (Southwestern Asia). Methods: We prepared two datasets: the first dataset contained...

Benthic diatoms have been studied in different areas of the Mediterranean Sea, but no data have been available for Israeli coastal waters until the present time. In this work, the composition, ecology, and phytogeography of diatoms of the macrophytes epiphyton are presented for the first time. Altogether, 85 diatom taxa were found among the epiphyt...

The distribution and diversity of Termitomyces were studied along three different ecological zones within three phytogeographic divisions. The main aim of the study is to assess patterns of species diversity and distribution along the east-west and south-north gradients of Nepal Himalaya. Soil samples from 27 locations were collected; among them fo...

This project aims to study life through the prism of two margins: a geographical margin - the high mountains - and a scientific margin - the construction of a hybrid knowledge between non-academic spheres and academic research. The three parts of the thesis are structured as follows: (i) an analysis of the construction of biological knowledge at th...

As formações vegetais da Caatinga são notavelmente diversas, superando outras florestas sazonalmente secas da América do Sul, com várias fácies fitogeográficas influenciadas pela distribuição, abundância e relação das espécies com os fatores ambientais. Este estudo visa identificar possíveis padrões fitogeográficos da Caatinga na região do Seridó p...

This paper presents an updated overview of the world's biogeographical realms and regions in the terrestrial domain. It incorporates new data on floristic and vegetation aspects, along with recent regional information, which has emerged in the decades following the influential maps created by A. Takhtajan and R. Good. We elucidate the various bioge...

Background Abies pinsapo Clemente ex Boiss. is a species classified as endangered and currently occupies a very small and fragmented area of distribution in the southwest of the Baetic System. The uniqueness of these relict forests has motivated their study from different perspectives: phytogeography, faunal and floristic communities or biotic and...

Disentangling how climate oscillations and geographical events significantly influence plants’ genetic architecture and demographic history is a central topic in phytogeography. The deciduous ancient tree species Ulmus macrocarpa is primarily distributed throughout Northern China and has timber and horticultural value. In the current study, we stud...

The present article aims at analysing the floristic composition of Lycophytes and Ferns to test the disturbances on the vegetation structure occurring in the mountains zones of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park (KBNP), further, to prove/underline the main threat and the vulnerability which actually is impacting the biodiversity in the mountains of the...

Two species are newly reported for the Arabian Peninsula and eight new records for the Sultanate of Oman. Brief comments are provided on the phytogeography and ecology of these species. Most new records have been made from the botanically very poorly known or unexplored mountainous areas of northern Oman, including Musandam and poorly collected are...

The former royal city of Surakarta, Indonesia, is renowned for a uniquely cosmopolitan culture, blending high Javanese traditions with various peranakan (mixed ethnicity). This unique cultural fusion has facilitated the exchange of knowledge, particularly in relation to usage of various plants as phytomedicine by the urban populace. Therefore, this...

Through the methods of modern phytogeography, botany and systematics, the centers of origin and the vectors of distribution of the plant species used in Bulgarian symbolism are traced. Their transfer is analyzed against the background of the development of social formations in Europe and the Balkans over the centuries. Special attention is paid to...

The Oki Islands in the Sea of Japan were connected to the Shimane Peninsula during the glacial period. The vertical distribution of forest vegetation is unclear and glacial relict tree species might exist. To clarify the characteristics of the tree species composition of the Oki Islands, we compared the tree species compositions of the Oki Islands...

Through the methods of modern phytogeography, botany and systematics, the centers of origin and the vectors of distribution of the plant species used in Bulgarian symbolism are traced. Their transfer is analyzed against the background of the development of social formations in Europe and the Balkans over the centuries. Special attention is paid to...

There is a well-known but unrecognized truth in science – the separate scientific units are conservative and so "deep" in matter, that they have no connection with each other. In this sense, interdisciplinary research is a challenge that requires courage and knowledge, of course. Tracing the formation and consolidation of Bulgarian symbolism over t...

Ecology is a relatively new and important discipline of biological research, emerging in the latter half of the twentieth century.[1] Ecological thought is influenced by well-established philosophical currents, particularly those of ethics and politics.[2] Its history dates back to the fourth century. Aristotle or his student Theophrastus, both of...

Monocotyledonous angiosperm family Zingiberaceae (Ginger family) is one of the most economically important and treasured monocotyledonous families. The members of this family consist of a large number of medicinal plants and they are also well known for their use as spices and condiments. The family is represented by 53 genera and about 1377 specie...

This study highlights the main factors influencing the distribution and composition of tree species in the Atlantic Forest. It aims to understand the influence of climatic factors in shaping composition patterns, as well as the influence of soil, topography and other environmental factors on the structure and dynamics of this biodiversity hotspot....

The flora in Czechoslovakia belongs to three large European vegetation regions: the Middle-European, Pontic-Pannonian and Carpathian. They all occur on the territory of Czechoslovakia, and from the point of view of phytogeography produce a whole series of problems. An important part in our flora is played by the xerophytes and thermophytes. The are...

The present study aims to document the traditional knowledge and the distribution of diverse halophytes used by the coastal community of Vietnam to compensate for the food, fodder, and medicine demands. The information was gathered from the local people, plant traders, and herbalists using a semi-structured questionnaire. The survey indicated the e...

The question of occurrence of organisms upon the Earth has been many times treated of by geographers as well as biologists. Some consider biogeography and independent scientific branch of geography, others think it part of biology. Both tendencies according to the subject of one's studies may be considered either biological or geographical branches...

This article explores the application of machine learning techniques in acoustic ecology to classify the formations of the Brazilian Cerrado (Forest, Savanna, and Grassland) based on their soundscapes. Considering the Cerrado's importance for biodiversity and hydrology, as well as the challenges faced by the biome in the face of agricultural expans...

Members of the genus Chondrus are well-known from temperate and cold waters. Chondrus ocellatus Holmes was reported from Hawai‘i Island (19° N latitude) in 1999 as a new record based on vegetative and tetrasporangial characteristics. The first specimens were collected by Setchell in 1900 in Hilo, HI. The presence of a Chondrus species in the subtro...

Résumé L’étude a consisté à identifier, à partir de la télédétection spatiale, les facteurs déterminant la conservation de la biodiversité végétale des forêts tropicales sèches dans un contexte d’aménagement forestier. Le modèle linéaire a été utilisé pour déterminer, dans la zone d’intervention du Projet de Restauration des Ressources Forestières...

The Book is a collection of 30 articles on Flora and Fauna, Phytogeography, systematics, Traditional Knowledge, ecology, and other aspects of Biological research in Northeast India

Background This study conducted a survey for establishing in-situ and ex-situ conservation measures for northern lineage plants that are vulnerable to climate change and for designating Forest Genetic Resource Reserve for 25 algific talus slope sites, which are specific areas of forest biodiversity. The survey was conducted in South Korea within a...

A conservation survey on the condition of steppe and forest-steppe habitats in the Vértes Mts revealed several plant species from the flora of the area that have not been reported before. From a phytogeographical point of view, the most important is Astragalus vesicarius, whose small population in the Vértes fits very well into the native distribut...

The department of Vaupés, located in the Amazon region of Colombia, covers approximately 65.268 km2, representing 5.7% of the country's territory. The department hosts a rich floristic diversity that plays a crucial role in the dynamics of local ecosystems. This richness gains even greater importance due to the ethnobotanical use by ancestral commu...

Aims : To complete the syntaxonomic scheme of subalpine forb steppes in the Pamir-Alai Mountains in Tajikistan with some remarks on its environmental predictors. Study area : Tajikistan. Methods : A total of 149 relevés were sampled in 2014 and 2021 using the seven-degree cover-abundance scale of the Braun-Blanquet scheme. These were classified wit...

Contexte : Les populations rurales qui représentent une couche sociale vulnérable utilisent les plantes médicinales contre les affections fongiques pour leur soin de santé primaire. L’objectif de cette étude était de faire un inventaire floristique des plantes utilisées en médecine traditionnelles pour soigner les maladies fongiques par les herbori...

Present study aims to document the traditional knowledge and the distribution of diverse halophytes used by the coastal community of Vietnam to compensate for the food, fodder, and medicine demands. The information was gathered from the local people, plant traders, and herbalists using semi-structured questionnaire. The survey indicated the ethnobo...

The aim of the article is to assess the potential impacts of climate change on Slovenian forests in the period 2080–2100 based on two climate scenarios: SSP1-2.6 (optimistic) and SSP5-8.5 (pessimistic) using the MaxEnt software. Slovenian forests are divided at the ecological community level into thirteen forest vegetation types. Analyses of change...

This study places a strong emphasis on the role of landscape knowledge in investigating phytoinvasions. It underscores the significance of studying invasive flora within the broader context of researching anthropogenic environmental changes. Phytoinvasions are highlighted as crucial factors in shaping anthropogenic landscapes. This research aligns...

We analysed the floristic subdivisions of Albania by hierarchical clustering of all the vascular plant species of Albania over a grid of 25 km cells, adapting data from the Vascular Species Distribution Atlas in Albania of ( Barina Z (ed.) (2017) Distribution atlas of vascular plants in Albania. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest). We ident...

Floristic research is essential for the conservation of biodiversity and one of the biggest challenges given the high level of human disturbances in Mozambican ecosystems. Coastal vegetation plays an important role in the environmental protection of dunes, preventing the advance of seawater toward the continent, in dune erosion and in the maintenan...

It has been widely documented that the complex structure of forest ecosystems supports considerable bryophyte species and functional diversity. In this study, we assessed the diversity, distribution and ecological and phytogeographical features of bryophytes across a gradient of temperate forest types on Mt. Papuk. This is the largest and highest m...

Sedimentological processes are underexplored in retro-arc basin segments of source-to-sink systems, particularly in the distal back-bulge depozone. The extant Pantanal Basin of Latin America is a large sub-tropical continental back-bulge for which the boundary conditions on riverine sedimentation (tectonics, climate, phytogeography) are reasonably...

Background The biogeographic characteristics of disjunctive distribution play a crucial role in plant geography and understanding mechanisms related to endangerment. Genome sequencing offers an opportunity to explore genetic relationships, population dispersal, and the floristic evolution of disjunctively distributed flora. In this study, we conduc...

White-sand ecosystems are characterized by distinctive vegetation covers ranging from purely herbaceous (meadows) to closed forests (caatingas), growing on the most infertile tropical soils widely scattered in the Amazon region. They are examples of habitat specialization, relatively low biodiversity and prominent endemism. The contemporary landsca...

Palaeobotanical investigations were conducted on plant macrofossils obtained from the Middle Siwalik sediments of Sarkaghat, Mandi District, Himachal Pradesh, India as part of this current communication. This study discovered the existence of two previously unknown fossil species that correspond to the taxa that are now living, Lagerstroemia Linn....

The Northern Snakehead (Channa argus) is widely distributed and extremely resistant to hypoxia, it is now an aquaculture species in China and has heritable diversity of white body colour populations with two phenotypes of "grey fin rays" and "gold fin rays". In this study, the genetic diversity and molecular phylogenetics of C. argus with different...

Karl Reiche (1860-1929), a German botanist, arrived in Chile in 1889 as a professor at the Lyceum in the city of Constitución. He was attracted by the country's climate and its traditional friendliness to German immigrants. A few years later, in 1897, Federico Phillippi, Director of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, welcomed Reiche as the new...

The results of the annual excursion of the Working Group for Vegetation Science of the Italian Botanical Society, held in the Egadi Islands, Mount San Giuliano and Mount Cofano (W Sicily) on April 23–27 2022, are presented. This paper includes: (1) general information on the visited sites; (2) geology and geomorphology; (3) climatology and bioclima...

Acer oblongum Wall. ex DC. (Sapindaceae), earlier known from foothills of Himalayas and North-Eastern states. It is now being collected from Mahendragiri hills of Odisha, which turned out to be a new plant record for the Eastern Ghats of India. Detailed description, notes on ecology, distribution and phytogeography of the species have been provided...

The series includes outstanding monographs and collections of papers on a given topic in the following fields: Phytogeography, Phytosociology, Plant Community Ecology, Biocoenology, Vegetation Science, Eco-informatics, Landscape Ecology, Vegetation Mapping, Plant Conservation Biology and Plant Diversity. Contributions are expected to reflect the la...

Clerical persons conducted a variety of botanical research in Poland and Polish lands. The purpose of this article is to describe their achievements in this fi eld of science. No comprehensive study of the clergy's contribution to the development of this branch of science has been made so far. The study is based on the biographies of botanists and...

We present an updated list of the vascular flora occurring in the Cerbaie hills (Tuscany), a site of high naturalistic interest. The list is based on a literature survey and on field studies carried out in the years 2010–2022. The Cerbaie hills host a flora of 1,107 specific and subspecific taxa (including 100 naturalized aliens), 32 casual aliens...

This article provides flora features as a scientific basis for proposing solutions to control (Cyperus cephalotes Vahl) species at the Bau Sau wetland, Cat Tien National Park. The results showed that the encroachment of (Cyperus cephalotes Vahl) species and plant association reduced the annual average of about 1.32 hectares of water surface area b...

Obligate floral specialists such as bees are threatened by the loss or degradation of valuable feeding and nesting resources due to human intervention in their natural habitat. Despite land use change and anthropogenic influence, flower rich urban green spaces have become an indispensable ecological habitat as they provide a valuable refuge for bee...

Two Late Jurassic macrofloras from the Pacific region, originally described in the early 1900s, are reappraised.These floras are the Monte de Oro flora from northern California (late Oxfordian—early Kimmeridgian) and the Riddle flora from southwestern Oregon (late Tithonian).The cooccurrence of marine invertebrates in these formations, combined wit...

Maqui (Aristotelia chilensis) is a small tree endemic to Patagonia. It is currently being actively domesticated for its edible berries, which have high polyphenol content and anti-oxidant capability. However, little is known about its population structure and evolutionary history, information which is useful for the design of effective conservation...

A positive correlation between cave size and bat diversity has been recorded by some authors for different cave areas in South America. We analyzed published and otherwise available data from three Brazilian karst areas and phytogeography domains, including NE and SE Atlantic Forest and Cerrado (savannah-like vegetation), encompassing a wide range...

Digitisation of the Moscow University Herbarium (MW) was started in the spring of 2015. Since October 2016, we have been publishing the images of specimens on the portal of the Moscow Digital Herbarium (https://plant.depo.msu.ru/) in open access mode. Gradually, we started to publish extended metadata on our portal, like full transcriptions of labe...

Thirty-one species in 22 families of mosses are reported as new records for the island of Palawan, the Philippines. Two of these, Acroporium downii (Dixon) Broth. and Trichosteleum pseudomammosum M. Fleisch., are also reported here as new to the Philippine moss flora. A re-examination of the floristic affinity of the moss flora of Palawan revealed...

Forest Cover Change and its Environmental Impact in Kupwara Region of Jammu and Kashmir through remote sensing Forest cover change, Remote sensing, Geographic information system, Climate change, Phytogeography.

This study conducted a survey for establishing in-situ and ex-situ conservation measures for northern linage plants that are vulnerable to climate change and for designating Forest Genetic Resource Reserve for 25 algific talus slope sites, which are specific areas of forest biodiversity. The survey was conducted in South Korea within a distance of...

Bu çalışma Değirmendere havzası (Trabzon) pseudomaki vejetasyonu alanlarının bitki listesinin belirlenmesi amacıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çalışma alanı, Trabzon ilinin Ortahisar ve Maçka ilçeleri sınırları içerisinde ve Davis'in grid sistemine göre A7 karesinde bulunmaktadır. Bu bölge, bitki coğrafyası bakımından, Avrupa-Sibirya flora bölgesinde ye...

A list of the vascular flora occurring in the municipality of Empoli (province of Firenze, Tuscany) is provided. The list is based on a bibliographic analysis and on field studies carried out in the years 2018–2022. A total of 757 specific and subspecific taxa currently occur in the study area (including 117 aliens), plus 51 cultivated taxa. Azolla...