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Jun 13, 2022 · Euterpe edulis (Arecaceae) is a palm threatened with extinction, found in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay, and in gallery forests of the Brazilian Cerrado (Henderson et al...
Sep 12, 2024 · Unfortunately, scientific research in Euterpe does not follow the genomic progress to important palm trees that the use of advanced next generation sequencing techniques has allowed to be selected, with more precise desirable traits in terms of cultivation and nutritional value.
Jun 7, 2024 · The number of extinct plants is more than that of extinct animals, affirming that the rate of plant extinctions is 500 times higher than before the Industrial Revolution. Human industrialization has destroyed plant ecosystems through deforestation and climate change.
Jun 13, 2018 · For example, the extinction of large-bodied frugivorous birds such as toucans, toucanets and large cotingas in some fragments of the Atlantic forest of Brazil have caused a consistent trend towards small seed sizes in a species of palm (Euterpe edulis) .
Pre-human extinction rates are inferred from the fossil record, recent values from documented extinctions in selected groups, and near-future extinctions are projected from the current rates at which species are transitioning between IUCN categories (data from refs 2, 9, 10, 12 and 13).
Jun 10, 2019 · We expected plant extinctions to be: (1) more numerous than currently recorded by the Red List, the global authority on species extinction risk, but incomplete for most groups 2, 12; (2) elevated...
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Aug 17, 2015 · Prominent scientists cite dramatically different numbers when estimating the rate at which species are going extinct. Why is that? Is it 150 species a day or 24 a day or far less than that?
