BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scientists from the U.S. and South Africa are launching a campaign to map marine, freshwater, and terrestrial species and ecosystems in one of Earth’s biodiversity hotspots: the ...

Floristic Studies Floristic Studies What is a Flora? A floristic study documents all the plant species found within a specific geographical area. Some ambitious and large-scale floristic projects ...

Abstract: Similarities in the temperate floras of eastern Asia and North America have been appreciated for more than 200 yr, but the generality of the floristic relationships among eastern Asia (EAS), ...

BEIJING -- Chinese researchers have revealed that the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was a globally significant hub for floristic exchange tens of millions of years ago. Podocarpium is an extinct ...

Our floristic province is amazingly diverse. It contains 4,426 species of plants. To put this into perspective, that’s higher than what’s found throughout the entire central and northeastern ...

Floristic Regions (IMAGE) Science China Press Caption These are floristic regions of the Eastern Asiatic Floristic Kingdom and its two subkingdoms (A & B) based on Wu and Wu (1996) (7).

Like South Africa's Greater Cape Floristic Region, the Southwest Australian Floristic Region (SWAFR) is species rich, with a Mediterranean climate and old, weathered, nutrient-deficient landscapes.

Introduction (written for students) An important and often misunderstood concept in ecology is succession. Succession refers to the series of changes observed in a plant community following a ...

Cutting-edge research will focus on the Greater Cape Floristic Region, which is home to thousands of plant species unique to the area This content is restricted to subscribers only. Our commitment ...