1 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Physical Biosciences Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 Agricultural and Plant Biochemistry and Proteomics Research Group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universit...

Kevin S. Burgess*, Aron J. Fazekas, Prasad R. Kesanakurti, Sean W. Graham, Brian C. Husband, Steven G. Newmaster, Diana M. Percy, Mehrdad Hajibabaei and Spencer C. H. Barrett Department of Biology, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA 31907-5645, USA; Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph ON N1G 2W1, Canada; UBC Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research, and Depa...

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology University of California Berkeley, CA USA Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA The University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley Natural History Museums, Berkeley, California, USA Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany GB...

RoBotanic is a brand new project we recently started to deliver a robotic guide for the Botanical Garden of the University of Palermo. This project follows on the researches of the Robotics Lab that yelded CiceRobot, the robotic guide that has been tested in the indoor environment of the Archaeological Museum of Agrigento. In this paper we describe the goal of the new project, the design challe...

The genus Diplosmittia was erected by Sæther (1981) based on Diplosmittia harrisoni from St. Lucia and St. Vincent in the British West Indies. Prior to the present study the genus comprised nine species, all except D. carinata Sæther were known only from Neotropical Region (Ashe & O'Connor, 2012). During sampling in the surroundings of a highly organic polluted river, in the National Botanical ...

Guang-You Hao, Lawren Sack, Ai-Ying Wang, Kun-Fang Cao* and Guillermo Goldstein* Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan Province 666303, China; Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los ...

I Missouri Botanical Garden, BP 3391, Antananarivo 101. Phone: +261 2022 32482. ABSTRACT Percentage survival and mean percentage change in height were compared for 19 native tree and shrub species planted at Ankafobe Forest, a degraded fragment of highland forest, at ten months after planting. The species varied considerably in both, survival and growth. Best performers included Macaranga alnif...

a Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, 666303, China b Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Biodiversity, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, China c Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zürich, Zürich, 8008, Switzerland d Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sc...

1 State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang East Rd., Kunming, Yunnan 650223 China 2 Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China 10 3 Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Sim...

Department of Geography and Geosciences, Institute of Geography, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, 2 Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Eberswalde, Germany, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, Département des Sciences Fondamentales, Université du Qu...