America has self-importance in abundance. What it lacks is the data to back it up.

FloraMac is an international symposium that convenes researchers specializing in various disciplines—such as taxonomy, vegetation ecology, biogeography, phylogeography, paleoecology or biodiversity...

Most plant species world-wide depend on one or more mutualisms – beneficial associations with other species. Evidence is emerging that these biotic mutualisms shape plant biogeography (i.e. distribut....

Policymakers and practitioners overseeing invasive species management depend on reliable research for guidance. Transparency and reproducibility are core features of reliable research, and prerequisit...

Nature in Australia’s smallest state is in poor health, but this has been largely ignored by both major parties in the lead-up to the early state election

Biological invasions are major drivers of biodiversity change. Alien mammals are particularly concerning in Europe, where their expansion remains unabated, though the driving factors are still unclea...

Il disegno di legge del governo modificherà nel peggiore dei modi tutta la normativa nazionale che regolamenta il prelievo venatorio.

Push for “data sovereignty” could reshape how scientists share information

This study carries out a scaling analysis comparing the elite wealth concentration of ancient Roman cities with modern urban centers. It found that increased wealth concentration corresponds with incr...

The anthropogenic extinction patterns and processes of the vascular flora in the model island region of Macaronesia have been investigated in the present study. We compiled all known extinction recor...

This modelling study integrates comprehensive regional plant inventories, environmental conditions and palaeogeographical reconstructions to assess the relative roles of environmental filtering and di...