San Diego Thornmint () Populations Differ in Growth and Reproductive Responses to Differential Water Availability: Evidence from a Common Garden Experiment.

The responses of rare plants to environmental stressors will determine their potential to adapt to a rapidly changing climate. We used a common garden approach to evaluate how six populations of the annual San Diego thornmint ( Lamiaceae; listed as endangered in the state of California and as threatened by the US Fish and Wildlife Service) from across the species range respond in terms of growth (biomass, height, and width) and reproduction (seed production, floral production, and next generation seed viability) to experimental differences in water availability. We found a significant irrigation-by-population interaction on the aboveground growth, wherein the differences in the magnitude and direction of treatment did not correlate directly with climate variables in natural populations.

Data on spatio-temporal patterns of wild fruit harvest from the economically important palm in the Peruvian Amazon.

These data are the foundation of the analyses and results published in the article "Spatio-temporal patterns of fruit extraction in the Peruvian Amazon: Implications for conservation and sustainability" (Horn et al., 2018) [1]. Here we include data on the volume of fruit arriving in the city of Iquitos, Peru from the surrounding region.

The socio-cultural importance of Mauritia flexuosa palm swamps (aguajales) and implications for multi-use management in two Maijuna communities of the Peruvian Amazon.

Background: Fruit from the palm Mauritia flexuosa (aguaje) is harvested throughout the Peruvian Amazon for subsistence and commercial purposes. Recent estimates suggest that residents of Iquitos, the largest city in the region, consume approximately 148.8 metric tons of aguaje fruit per month, the vast majority of which is harvested by felling and killing adult female trees.