Plant Conservation and Biodiversity

Floristic and structural changes related to opportunistic soil tilling and pasture planting in grassland communities of the Flooding Pampa.- Decreased frugivory and seed germination rate do not reduce seedling recruitment rates of Aristotelia chilensis in a fragmented forest.- Vascular plant diversity and climate change in the alpine zone of the Lefka Ori, Crete.- RAPD variation among North Vietnamese Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) Kuntze ex Merr. accessions.- Non-timber forest product harvesting in alien-dominated forests: effects of frond-harvest and rainfall on the demography of two native Hawaiian ferns.- Tequila and other Agave spirits from west-central Mexico: current germplasm diversity, conservation and origin.- Spatial patterns of dicot diversity in Argentina.- Unsustainable collection and unfair trade? Uncovering and assessing assumptions regarding Central Himalayan medicinal plant conservation.- Woody plant species richness in the Turvo State park, a large remnant of deciduous Atlantic forest, Brazil.- Genetic diversity assessment in Somali sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) accessions using microsatellite markers.- Demand for rubber is causing the loss of high diversity rain forest in SW China.- Comparing conservation priorities for useful plants among botanists and Tibetan doctors.- Environmental heterogeneity and disturbance by humans control much of the tree species diversity of Atlantic montane forest fragments in SE Brazil.- Correspondence between scientific and traditional ecological knowledge: rain forest classification by the non-indigenous ribereños in Peruvian Amazonia.- Species richness, endemism and conservation of Mexican gymnosperms.- Impacts of El Niño related drought and forest fires on sun bear fruit resources in lowland dipterocarpforest of East Borneo.- Pollinator shift and reproductive performance of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau endemic and endangered Swertia przewalskii (Gentianaceae).- An analysis of altitudinal behavior of tree species in Subansiri district, Eastern Himalaya.- Distribution, diversity and environmental adaptation of highland papayas (Vasconcellea spp.) in tropical and subtropical America.- Ecological niche modeling and geographic distribution of the genus Polianthes L. (Agavaceae) in Mexico: using niche modeling to improve assessments of risk status.- The uses, local perceptions and ecological status of 16 woody species of Gadumire Sub-county, Uganda.- Mapping the geographic distribution of Aglaia bourdillonii Gamble (Meliaceae), an endemic and threatened plant, using ecological niche modeling.- Optimizing conservation of forest diversity: a country-wide approach in Mexico.- Seeing the wood for the trees: how conservation policies can place greater pressure on village forests in southwest China.- Medicinal plant conservation and management: distribution of wild and cultivated species in eight countries.- Biodiversity effects on biomass production and invasion resistance in annual versus perennial plant communities.