Hedgerows as a habitat for forest plant species in the agricultural landscape of Europe

The Atlantic Forest is one of the most import biodiversity hotspots in the world, nevertheless, its 20,000 plant species are poorly characterized genetically, what could undermine conservational efforts and bioprospection of natural products. We used a genome reduction using restriction site conservation (GR-RSC) technique to minimize sequencing effort and build in a short period a data bank of gene sequences from 35 plant species from the Atlantic Forest in a private natural protected area in Southwest Brazil. After Illumina sequencing and standard bioinformatics, we produced more than 66 million super reads, of which 11 million (17\%) were annotated using Diamond and UNIREF90 database and 55 million were 'No hit'. We picked 17 enzymes from 2 secondary metabolite synthesis pathways that are both important representatives of biological processes for plants and also of industrial interest, to test the usefulness of the databank we created for gene discovery. All 17 genes were detected in at least one of the 35 species and all species exhibited at least one of the genes. Eight of the 35 species exhibited all 17 genes. These results shows that genome simplification by restriction enzyme can be applied to preliminary screen thousands of species in tropical forests, generating useful databanks for scientific and entreprenurial activities both in conservational biology and bioprospection.

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[Chromatographic auxanometry and GC-MS-auxanometry in forest plant species vegetation phenological monitoring based on flavor and gas chemistry principles with automatic pattern recognition (climatic, meteorological, taxonomic and phenospectral)]

10.31220/osf.io/ep65h ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Oleg Gradov

Keyword(s):

Pattern Recognition ◽

Plant Species ◽

Gas Chemistry ◽

Automatic Pattern Recognition ◽

Forest Plant Species ◽

Phenological Monitoring

Gradov O. V. Chromatographic auxanometry and GC-MS-auxanometry in forest plant species vegetation phenological monitoring based on flavor and gas chemistry principles with automatic pattern recognition (climatic, meteorological, taxonomic and phenospectral) // Optimization and Protection of Ecosystems. Simferopol: TNU, 2014. Iss. 10. P. 30–45. [Градов О. В. Хромато-ауксанометрія і хромато-мас-ауксанометрія у фенологічному стадійному моніторингу лісових порід на основі флейво- та газохімічних принципів з автоматичною динамічною ідентифікацією патернів (таксономічних, метеоролого-кліматичних і феноспектральних // Экосистемы, их оптимизация и охрана. — 2014. — Т. 10, № 29. — С. 30–45].

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Yearlong association of Apis dorsata and Apis florea with flowering plants: planted forest vs. agricultural landscape

Sociobiology ◽

10.13102/sociobiology.v64i1.995 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 64 (1) ◽

pp. 18 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mudssar Ali ◽

Asif Sajjad ◽

Shafqat Saeed

Keyword(s):

Plant Species ◽

Agricultural Landscape ◽

Mangifera Indica ◽

Floral Resources ◽

Conservation Strategies ◽

Calotropis Procera ◽

Apis Dorsata ◽

Planted Forest ◽

Foraging Preferences ◽

Floral Constancy

The yearlong association of two native honey bee species (Apis dorsata and A. florea) with 49 plant species was recorded in a planted forest and adjacent agricultural landscape at Multan, Pakistan. The study resulted in 588 interactions of A. dorsata with 40 plant species and 454 interactions of A. florea on 38 plant species. The most visited plants species by A. dorsata included Helianthus annuus, Citrus reticulata, Trifolium alexandrinum, Moringa oleifera and Calotropis procera, while the most visited plant species by A. florea included C. procera, Mangifera indica, T. alexandrinum, Coriandrum sativum and H. annuus. The peak abundance of bees and floral resources (i.e. number of plant species in flowering and abundance of floral units) was recorded during early March to late May followed by a gradual decline until December. Monthly abundance of both bee species was positively related to the floral resources, negatively related to relative humidity while it was not significantly related to temperature. The current study may serve as a baseline to track the degradation in ecosystem service of cross pollination and making new conservation strategies at local scale while future research should focus on tempo-spatial variations in foraging preferences, floral constancy and effect of foraging competition on crop pollination in different ecological regions of Pakistan.

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