Bridging biodiversity and ecosystem services through useful plant species

Plants People Planet, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 28, 2025

Social Impact Statement Global change endangers the terrestrial vegetation that sustains us. Therefore, policymakers need to make informed decisions about what and where protect. However, with limited resources, we must decide whether protect intrinsic value of plants or their humans. Protecting both is possible. By investigating distributions over 3000 Canada's useful native defined in ethnobotanical databases, identified areas are essential harbouring plant benefits. Here, bridge biodiversity benefits it provides inform conservation policies by prioritizing species. Summary Plants foundational for ecosystems provide services humans, but little known distribution protection plants. address how well all captures diversity status human uses. We calculated metrics Canada at 1‐km 2 spatial scale based on species models a large plant‐use database use categories food feed, medicinal, biochemical genetic resources materials. used Species Protection Index (SPI) determine adequately represented protected derive new index—Useful Globally Endangered (USaGE)—to identify important combination usefulness (USa) extinction risk (GE) obtained from Committee Status Wildlife (COSEWIC) assessments. Overall, c. 30% has documented uses, richness correlated richness. Useful generally concentrated southern agricultural areas, exception some (e.g., medicinal also prevalent coastal boreal regions). Around 94% inadequately existing including many USaGE like American Ginseng. Our combined approach identifies priority have long extensively record potentially providing ecosystem humanity.

Язык: Английский

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Native vs. Non-Native Plants: Public Preferences, Ecosystem Services, and Conservation Strategies for Climate-Resilient Urban Green Spaces

Land, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 14(5), С. 954 - 954

Опубликована: Апрель 28, 2025

Climate change is reshaping urban environments, intensifying the need for resilient green space design and management that supports biodiversity, improves ecosystem services, adapts to changing conditions. Understanding trade-offs between native non-native species selection important developing climate-resilient spaces. This review examines public preferences versus plant their implications management. We critically analyse services biodiversity benefits provided by both plants in spaces, highlighting complex involved. Our findings indicate while can be underrepresented landscapes, they offer significant ecological including support local wildlife pollinators. Some studies have highlighted climate resilience of plants; however, are likely more affected change. Therefore, conservation strategies needed, especially endemic threatened species. Several suggest a flexible approach integrates from diverse climatic origins improve resilience. also explore gardening (CG) as socio-ecological strategy integrate endangered into promoting stresses importance informed community involvement creating

Язык: Английский

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Biosecurity problem representation(s) by tree and forest health actors in Southeast Asia

Forest Policy and Economics, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 177, С. 103509 - 103509

Опубликована: Май 14, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Aphelenchoididae nematodes in a centennial Pinus pinea tree, and a review of Bursaphelenchus species from this host

Phytopathologia Mediterranea, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 64(1), С. 25 - 39

Опубликована: Май 14, 2025

A “monumental” centennial Pinus pinea L. tree of public interest with severe wilting symptoms was felled in Coimbra, Portugal. survey carried out to detect Aphelenchoididae nematodes (including Bursaphelenchus spp.) the tissues. Nematode isolates were characterised/identified based on species-specific morphological characteristics, and molecular data. xylophilus not detected. Three other species (B. arthuri, B. fungivorus sexdentati Type II) found co-occurring tree. Other nematodes, Potensaphelenchus stammeri Cryptaphelenchus sp., also identified. An annotated checklist spp. P. is presented, demonstrating wide variability this host. These results have shown that wilted pine trees can be reservoirs nematode diversity impacting forest health.

Язык: Английский

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Bridging global knowledge gaps in biodiversity databases: a comprehensive data synthesis on tree diversity of India

Biodiversity and Conservation, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 32(10), С. 3089 - 3107

Опубликована: Июнь 27, 2023

Язык: Английский

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