[HTML][HTML] Scientistsʼ warning on climate change and medicinal plants

WL Applequist, JA Brinckmann, AB Cunningham… - Planta …, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
The recent publication of a World Scientistsʼ Warning to Humanity highlighted the fact that
climate change, absent strenuous mitigation or adaptation efforts, will have profound …

The value of native plants and local production in an era of global agriculture

O Shelef, PJ Weisberg, FD Provenza - Frontiers in plant science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
For addressing potential food shortages, a fundamental tradeoff exists between investing
more resources to increasing productivity of existing crops, as opposed to increasing crop …

Herbaceous perennial plants with short generation time have stronger responses to climate anomalies than those with longer generation time

A Compagnoni, S Levin, DZ Childs, S Harpole… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
There is an urgent need to synthesize the state of our knowledge on plant responses to
climate. The availability of open-access data provide opportunities to examine quantitative …

Drivers of local extinction risk in alpine plants under warming climate

HA Nomoto, JM Alexander - Ecology Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The scarcity of local plant extinctions following recent climate change has been explained by
demographic inertia and lags in the displacement of resident species by novel species …

Simulated Indigenous fire stewardship increases the population growth rate of an understorey herb

GM Hart‐Fredeluces, T Ticktin, FK Lake - Journal of Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how plant populations respond to multiple drivers is increasingly critical for
biodiversity conservation under global change. Indigenous knowledge can provide …

Wildcards in climate change biology

DS Srivastava, L Coristine, AL Angert… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Forecasting how climate change will impact biological systems represents a grand
challenge for biologists. However, climate change biology lacks an effective framework for …

Nonadditive effects among threats on rare plant species

HL Bernardo, R Goad, P Vitt, TM Knight - Conservation Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The current loss of biodiversity has put 50,000 plant species at an elevated risk of extinction
worldwide. Conserving at‐risk species is often complicated by covariance or nonadditivity …

Medicinal plants meet modern biodiversity science

CC Davis, P Choisy - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Plants have been an essential source of human medicine for millennia. In this review, we
argue that a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to the study of medicinal plants that …

The role of regional ecological assessment in quantifying ecosystem services for forest management

LY Pomara, DC Lee - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Regional ecological assessments evaluate sustainability as an interaction among
ecosystem services and stressors across changing landscapes. Using ecological …

The potential for a backward-bending supply curve of non-timber forest products: An empirical case study of wild American ginseng production

GE Frey, JL Chamberlain, JP Prestemon - Forest Policy and Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
Renewable natural resources that have biological constraints on reproduction and are open-
access may be subjected to intense harvest activity that limits regeneration, potentially …