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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-01-2021
DOI: 10.1111/GCB.15498
Abstract: Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives, many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly compensate for anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, which are a major cause of rising global temperatures. However, tree planting that is poorly planned and executed could actually increase CO 2 emissions and have long‐term, deleterious impacts on bio ersity, landscapes and livelihoods. Here, we highlight the main environmental risks of large‐scale tree planting and propose 10 golden rules, based on some of the most recent ecological research, to implement forest ecosystem restoration that maximizes rates of both carbon sequestration and bio ersity recovery while improving livelihoods. These are as follows: (1) Protect existing forest first (2) Work together (involving all stakeholders) (3) Aim to maximize bio ersity recovery to meet multiple goals (4) Select appropriate areas for restoration (5) Use natural regeneration wherever possible (6) Select species to maximize bio ersity (7) Use resilient plant material (with appropriate genetic variability and provenance) (8) Plan ahead for infrastructure, capacity and seed supply (9) Learn by doing (using an adaptive management approach) and (10) Make it pay (ensuring the economic sustainability of the project). We focus on the design of long‐term strategies to tackle the climate and bio ersity crises and support livelihood needs. We emphasize the role of local communities as sources of indigenous knowledge, and the benefits they could derive from successful reforestation that restores ecosystem functioning and delivers a erse range of forest products and services. While there is no simple and universal recipe for forest restoration, it is crucial to build upon the currently growing public and private interest in this topic, to ensure interventions provide effective, long‐term carbon sinks and maximize benefits for bio ersity and people.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-11-2014
DOI: 10.1111/JBI.12429
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2009
DOI: 10.1016/J.YMPEV.2008.11.015
Abstract: Molecular phylogenetic studies of Haemodoraceae in the Greater Cape and Southwest Australian Floristic Region (SWAFR) using trnL, trnL-F and matK sequence data affirm the presence of old and young rapidly radiated lineages in both regions. Commencement of tribal and generic ergence in the subfamilies occured in the Eocene in the two regions, but subsequent patterns of radiation differ slightly. The hypothesis of rapid recent speciation in these regions from the late Pliocene as the major explanation for endemic species richness is still repeated by several contemporary authors despite increasing molecular phylogenetic evidence to the contrary. Our estimates of the age of lineages in Haemodoraceae show significant lineage turnover occurring over the last 15 million years, since the mid-Miocene, with ergence of the major clades beginning in the Eocene. The search for independent evidence to date speciation episodes reliably and investigation of molecular analyses across a broad spectrum of these clades must be pursued to advance ideas rigorously concerning origins of species richness. These regions continue to confound attempts to develop theory concerning origins of global species richness, with consequent implications for conservation biology.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-07-2011
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Date: 04-12-2020
DOI: 10.3897/PHYTOKEYS.169.57996
Abstract: Based on extensive herbarium, field, botanical illustration, and molecular phylogenetic research, five genera and eight species are recognised for the Neotropical Haemodoraceae. New taxa include Cubanicula Hopper et al., Xiphidium pontederiiflorum M.Pell. et al. and Schiekia timida M.Pell. et al. Two new combinations are made, Cubanicula xanthorrhizos (C.Wright ex Griseb.) Hopper et al. and Schiekia silvestris (Maas & Stoel) Hopper et al. We also correct the author citation for Xiphidium , provide the necessary typifications for several names and present an updated identification key, comments, and photo plates for all species. Finally, we provide high-quality illustrations for most of the recognised species and their diagnostic characters.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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