Optimizing survival and growth of inoculated biocrust-forming cyanobacteria through native plant-based habitat amelioration.

Low restoration success in degraded drylands has promoted research efforts towards recovery of pioneer components of these ecosystems such as biocrusts. Biocrusts can stabilize soils and improve nutrient cycling to assist vegetation establishment, but their natural recovery following a disturbance may be very slow. Soil inoculation with biocrust-forming components such as cyanobacteria is widely spread to foster biocrust formation.

Phylogenetic and phylogeographic evidence for the colonization success of the diplochorous across the Canary Islands.

is the only species of the genus , which forms an early-diverging lineage of Apiaceae, subfamily Apioideae. This species is subendemic to the Canary Islands and one of the most representative species of the coastal environments of this archipelago. displays diplochory, that is, diaspores with two long-distance dispersal (LDD) syndromes.

Population origin determines the adaptive potential for the advancement of flowering onset in L. (Fabaceae).

In the present framework of global warming, it is unclear whether evolutionary adaptation can happen quick enough to preserve the persistence of many species. Specifically, we lack knowledge about the adaptive potential of the different populations in relation to the various constraints that may hamper particular adaptations. There is evidence indicating that early flowering often provides an adaptive advantage to plants in temperate zones in response to global warming.