A floristic study documents all the plant species found within a specific geographical area. Some ambitious and large-scale floristic projects involve development of keys, detailed descriptions, and ...

In this lab, students play a board game designed to introduce the concepts of disturbance dynamics and succession in plant communities. Students explore the dynamics of an imaginary ecosystem through ...

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A recent study published in the journal Plant Ecology and Evolution gives valuable insights into forest stands of ...

NASA satellite and airborne tools aid an international team studying biodiversity on land and in the water around South Africa.

Rooibos tea, which is indigenous to South Africa, is a significant part of the country’s cultural tapestry and holds many ...

2024 year marks the 50th anniversary of the CNPS Rare Plant Inventory, tracking and analyzing rare plants and their status across the floristic province to help fight extinction (and subsequent ...

Table Mountain in Cape Town is a popular South African travel destination. Well, that’s according to TMACC which has reflected on the past summer season. According to TMACC, in the past season ...

His areas of specialization include restoration ecology, vegetation dynamics, ecological succession, ecosystem function, and floristic assessment. He has three decades of professional environmental ...

Researchers stumbled upon the herb during a floristic survey in the Agasthyamala biosphere reserve in Thiruvananthapuram district. They initially took it for Impatiens uncinata, a familiar species ...

The origin and distribution of biodiversity This project involves floristic and taxon-based research, focusing on key questions of the origin and distribution of biodiversity. The biogeographic ...

An important and often misunderstood concept in ecology is succession. Succession refers to the series of changes observed in a plant community following a disturbance event (Connell and Slayter 1977) ...