Publications by authors named "A M Monro"
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- Over 15% of vascular plant species might still be unnamed, and many existing species have insufficient geographic data recorded.
- Identifying gaps in taxonomic and geographic knowledge is essential for guiding future efforts in plant collection and conservation.
- The study highlights 33 areas, mostly within biodiversity hotspots, as critical regions for future collection, with specific countries like Colombia, Myanmar, and New Guinea prioritized for conservation efforts.
is a taxonomically challenging group within the nettle family (Urticaceae). The polyphyly of the genus has been proposed by previous studies with respect to five genera (, , , , and ). Extensive homoplasy of morphological characters has made generic delimitation problematic.
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- Feralization, an evolutionary process, is explored through the study of the ancient fiber crop ramie, focusing on genomic changes linked to its domestication and feralization.
- Researchers produced a detailed genome assembly of feral ramie and found significant structural variations from domesticated varieties, using a global collection of 915 ramie accessions.
- Results revealed that feral ramie shows higher genetic diversity and different natural selection patterns compared to domesticated ramie, indicating that it has adapted to its environment while sharing ecological niches with domesticated forms, offering insights into crop evolution and potential germplasm resources.
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- Angiosperms are vital for ecosystems and human life, making it important to understand their evolutionary history to grasp their ecological dominance.
- The study builds an extensive tree of life for about 8,000 angiosperm genera using 353 nuclear genes, significantly increasing the sampling size and refining earlier classifications.
- The findings reveal a complex evolutionary history marked by high gene tree conflict and rapid diversification, particularly during the early angiosperm evolution, with shifts in diversification rates linked to global temperature changes.
Biodiversity data aggregators, such as Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) suffer from inflation of the number of occurrence records when data from different databases are merged but not fully reconciled. The ParseGBIF workflow is designed to parse duplicate GBIF species occurrence records into unique collection events (gatherings) and to optimise the quality of the spatial data associated with them. ParseGBIF provides tools to verify and standardize species scientific names according to the World Checklist of Vascular Plants taxonomic backbone, and to parse duplicate records into unique 'collection events', in the process compiling the most informative spatial data, where more than one duplicate is available, and providing crude estimates of taxonomic and spatial data quality.
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