Sydney: In a study published in Nature magazine, researchers mapped the diversity of plant life on Earth’s islands and found ...

It emerges that islands contain a disproportionately large share of global plant diversity and endangered species. Read the paper: Islands are key for protecting the world’s plant endemism ...

A new study reveals over 20% of Earth's plant species are exclusive to islands, now threatened by extinction. Urgent ...

A study in Nature reveals that islands, covering just 5.3% of the planet's land, harbor 21% of the world's plant biodiversity ...

Results from a decades-long field study in Minnesota reveal the dangerous impact of rising carbon dioxide and nitrogen ...

From Tasmania to Madagascar to New Guinea, islands make up just over five per cent of Earth's land yet are home to 31 per cent of the world's plant species. A new study shows that of all plants ...

But the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) exhibits rich periglacial plant diversity and unique ecological adaptation mechanisms. The formation of its biodiversity, plant adaptation, biogeographic ...

After flowering plants, the world became like an English garden ... advantages that may have helped give rise to their diversity. While this so-called herbaceous habit might have given them ...

Plant diversity is critical because biological diversity is declining in landscapes around the world, said Basil Iannone, who ...

The first part of the volume deals with general structural and biological features of flowers and shows facets of their diversity. The second part focuses on the flowers of selected tropical plants ...

But opportunities are being lost to use this "treasure chest of incredible diversity" as species vanish ... New estimates suggest two-fifths of the world's plants are at risk of extinction.