Praeg, Nadine Steinwandter, Michael Urbach, Davnah Chen, Ting-Wen Dumack, Kenneth Fernandez-Mendoza, Fernando Freppaz, Michele Frey, Beat Fromin, Nathalie Geisen, Stefan
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Despite the importance of healthy soils for human livelihood, wellbeing, and safety, current gaps in our knowledge and understanding of biodiversity in soil are numerous, undermining conservation efforts. These gaps are particularly wide in mountain regions where healthy soils are especially important for human safety and yet evidence is accumulati...
Murugesan, Balasubramanian Subramanian, Anandhi Bakthavachalam, Subha Rajendran, Kavitha Raju, Sowndarya Gabriel, Subha
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Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics
Usnic acid is a marker compound produced from numerous lichens (symbiotic association of mycobiont and phycobiont) possessing higher bioavailability, potent and selective against cancer cells. Usnic acid is an underutilized and well-documented anti-cancer compound from lichens and its activity is not yet documented against cervical cancer. The main...
liepiņa, agnese anta jansone, diāna elferts, didzis barone, ilze donis, jānis jansons, āris
Restoration efforts to maintain oak-dominated habitats and enhance biodiversity often employ selective thinning, but its long-term effect on multiple taxa remains unclear. This study examines the effects of halo thinning around pedunculate oak on epiphytic and tree-related microhabitat (TreM) diversity in the boreal–nemoral forest zone. We revisite...
Bonatti-Chaves, Mariane Macalossi, Jenifer Cabral, Rodrigo Dümes Chaves Dias dos Santos, Murylu Pfundner, Pamela Bonatti, Michelle Sieber, Stefan Medeiros, Sandra Helena Westrupp Mouga, Denise Monique Dubet da Silva Gumboski, Emerson Luiz
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Environmental Research Communications
The alteration of the natural environment by human activities has increased in recent decades, with a significant impact on the organisms that inhabit it. One of the most apparent consequences of environmental alterations is the occurrence of climatic changes. The city of Joinville is situated in the southern region of Brazil. It has achieved a not...
bačkor, martin kecsey, dajana drábová, blažena urminská, dana šemeláková, martina goga, michal
In the present work, the phytotoxic effects of secondary metabolites extracted from lichen Ramalina celastri (usnic acid) and lichen Stereocaulon ramulosum (a naturally occurring mixture of atranorin and perlatolic acid, approx. 3:1) on cultures of the aposymbiotically grown lichen photobiont Asterochloris erici were evaluated. Algae were cultivate...
gimła, mariola herman-antosiewicz, anna
Cancer, a complex group of diseases marked by uncontrolled cell growth and invasive behavior, is characterized by distinct hallmarks acquired during tumor development. These hallmarks, first proposed by Douglas Hanahan and Robert Weinberg in 2000, provide a framework for understanding cancer’s complexity. Targeting them is a key strategy in cancer ...
gonzález-montelongo, cristina pérez-vargas, israel
The fragmentation and degradation of primary forests are serious threats to the long-term persistence not only of the tree species they comprise, but also of many organisms inhabiting them. The Canarian laurel forest, known as monteverde, is a highly threatened endemic forest of the Macaronesian region. Lichens are considered ideal bioindicators fo...
zotz, gerhard cascante-marín, alfredo
There are a number of rather anecdotal reports of plant growth on power cables in the Americas, but until now there has been no systematic attempt to gauge the geographical extension of this phenomenon nor a documentation of the diversity of species found there. Using observations from the participatory science data platform iNaturalist and the sci...
benítez, ángel ortiz, jorge matamoros-apolo, daniela bustamante, andrea lópez, fausto yangua-solano, erika gusmán-montalván, elizabeth
The dry forests of southern Ecuador are characterized by a great floristic variety and high endemism rates in different taxonomic groups; however, these forests are disappearing at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic disturbances. Epiphytic cryptogams (bryophytes and lichens) are important in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) and, due to th...
de paz, guillermo amo divakar, pradeep k. crespo, ana lumbsch, helge thorsten rico, víctor j.
The genus Xanthoparmelia includes several subcrustose, squamulose, small foliose, and small subfruticose species, primarily in the Southern Hemisphere. Here, we report on the first small foliose species lacking usnic acid in the genus occurring in the Holarctic. The species has been previously known as Lecanora olivascens Nyl., but subsequent studi...