Publications by authors named "Aleksandr L Ebel"
Article Synopsis
- The study analyzes the impact of naturalized plant species on the uniqueness of regional floras across 658 global regions, revealing significant taxonomic and phylogenetic homogenization due to these alien plants.
- It highlights that the natural decline in similarity among floras as geographic distance increases is lessened by the presence of naturalized species, with climate similarity further driving floristic homogenization.
- The research suggests that historical relationships and current administrative ties between regions increase plant exchange, posing a threat to the uniqueness of regional floras, and warns that without better biosecurity, globalization will continue to diminish floristic diversity worldwide.
"Flora of Russia" on iNaturalist: a dataset.
Biodivers Data J
November 2020
Background: The "Flora of Russia" project on iNaturalist brought together professional scientists and amateur naturalists from all over the country. Over 10,000 people were involved in the data collection.
New Information: Within 20 months, the participants accumulated 750,143 photo observations of 6,857 species of the Russian flora.
This dataset provides the Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database, version 1.2. GloNAF represents a data compendium on the occurrence and identity of naturalized alien vascular plant taxa across geographic regions (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAll around the globe, humans have greatly altered the abiotic and biotic environment with ever-increasing speed. One defining feature of the Anthropocene epoch is the erosion of biogeographical barriers by human-mediated dispersal of species into new regions, where they can naturalize and cause ecological, economic and social damage. So far, no comprehensive analysis of the global accumulation and exchange of alien plant species between continents has been performed, primarily because of a lack of data.
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