Tag: Biodiversity Conservation

A new checkered gecko from northwestern Sichuan is genetically and morphologically distinct from all known members of the Japonigekko subgenus.

A new assessment of eleven strictly protected areas in Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil, finds that 91 percent show ...

A survey of 129 protected areas in southern Brazil finds wild boars in more than a quarter of sites, yet ...

A new study combines DNA barcoding, habitat analysis and pilot-scale cultivation to safeguard Sicily's endangered endemic mushroom Pleurotus nebrodensis.

A survey of the Botanic Garden of Pisa recorded 57 epiphytic lichen taxa, including two species new to Tuscany and ...

A landmark survey documents 99 non-native plant species on Brazilian inselbergs, with one-third classified as invasive, revealing how exotic grasses, ...

A new synthesis in Ecology and Evolution shows how the plural, contradictory values of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities produce ...

A seven-year field survey has documented 618 vascular plant species in the Calabrian municipality of Tarsia, including two new regional ...

A new study resolves decades of taxonomic confusion among Chinese freshwater mussels by combining geometric morphometrics and molecular phylogenetics, restoring ...

High in the Madonie and Nebrodi mountains of Sicily, botanists have documented a chain of previously unrecorded mountain wetlands, and ...

A nine-month survey of a small peri-urban forest near Popayán, Colombia, documented 68 flowering plant species, strong seasonal flowering peaks ...

A survey of 2,210 woody plants in the water source forests of China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project shows that rare ...

A new framework called STEBS identifies the smallest landscape patch at which individual-based model predictions stabilise, enabling computationally efficient landscape-scale ...

Researchers have built the first harvest scheduling model that directly controls the spatial texture of mature and old-growth boreal forest, ...

Kyoto University researchers used a female-attracted flight interception trap to turn Platycerus stag beetle captures into the first spatially explicit ...

A four-year survey of nine temporary ponds in Algeria's Annaba Plain reveals 364 plant taxa whose survival hinges on salinity, ...

A household survey in Dehradun district, India, has documented 36 medicinal plant species used by the Jaunsari tribe, revealing how ...

In the sprawling urban forests of the Pacific Northwest, the invasion of English Holly, scientifically known as Ilex aquifolium, is ...

In an era marked by unprecedented environmental challenges and accelerating biodiversity loss, the role of botanical gardens and living plant ...

In an era where the rediscovery of traditional practices holds the potential to revolutionize modern medicine, the recent study conducted ...