Monitoring regeneration in woody communities and understanding the drivers of its success is crucial for gaining insight into the long-term persistence of trees in African drylands, where they play key socio-ecological roles. While fire, grazing and water availability are key factors for regeneration in these ecosystems, seed arrival, germination a...
Biological invasions represent one of the major threats to biodiversity conservation, especially in island ecosystems. Field-based assessments of the invasion degree are required for managing and monitoring invaded habitats but there is no unifying measure available in the literature. Here, we developed a standardised method for quantifying invasio...
Background: Grasslands provide a wide range of ecosystem services (ESs). However, there is currently no method for easily diagnosing the level of ESs produced. Our aim was to develop ES indicators based on botanical surveys, which are readily available data and integrative of grassland spatiotemporal variability. Methods: Based on academic knowledg...
The present revision of the genus Passiflora L. (Passifloraceae Juss. ex Roussel) updates the Guianese checklist of 2014 with recent collecting data and taxonomic and nomenclatural advances concern- ing French Guiana. It recognizes 44 passionflower taxa, including 27 taxa of subgenus Passiflora L., six taxa of subgenus Decaloba (DC.) Rchb., one tax...
Access to AdvenAlg is via the URL address: www.wikwio.org/alg/ which currently allows the identification of 125 important species of algerian weeds in field crops. They are divided according to their noxiousness into 15 agronomically major species, 20 secondary species, and 90 minor species. This modern computer-assisted identification (CAI) method...
Agroforestry systems can potentially increase tree diversity within agricultural landscapes, but to date, there is little understanding of the patterns of shade plant diversity within different agroforestry systems (AFS) at large spatial scales. Using compiled plant inventory data (from 23 sources, 2517 plots, and 148,255 individuals) encompassing ...
In drylands, water availability is the main limiting factor for plant growth. Topographic depressions in the Sahel that reveal a more favorable water balance display greater tree diversity compared to their surroundings. However, the environmental factors that drive differences in botanical composition between depressions remain unknown. Here, we i...
Dans la zone de Botambi (forêt classée), située au sud-ouest de Bangui, capitale de Centrafrique, la déforestation liée à la pratique de l'agriculture itinérante sur brûlis entraine depuis quelques années le recul de la couverture forestière au profit des jachères pauvres à Chromolaena odorata et des savanes herbeuses. Cette disparition de la forêt...
In West Africa, very poorly documented are the recovery trajectories of secondary forests, and even less is known about the origin of the observed variability in recovery rates. To understand the relative importance of local and regional environmental conditions on these trajectories, we inventoried all trees larger than 2.5 cm DBH on 236 plots (0....
Forests that regrow naturally on abandoned fields are important for restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services, but can they also preserve the distinct regional tree floras? Using the floristic composition of 1215 early successional forests (≤20 years) in 75 human-modified landscapes across the Neotropic realm, we identified 14 distinct floristi...
