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Plants under pressure: the impact of environmental change on plant ecology and evolution

Guest Editors:
Isabel Barrio: Agricultural University of Iceland, Iceland
Alessandro Rapini: The State University of Feira de Santana, Brazil

BMC Ecology and Evolution has published this Collection on "Plants under pressure: the impact of environmental change on plant ecology and evolution." Plants are our ancient allies, sustaining and nourishing life, yet many human actions are putting them increasingly under pressure. Worryingly, 39.4% of all plant species are now threatened with extinction, according to Royal Botanic Gardens Kew's 2020 State of the World's Plants and Fungi report. To highlight this issue and support the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 6: Clean water and sanitation, 13: Climate action, 14: Life below water and 15: Life on land, BMC Ecology and Evolution called for research on the impact of environmental change on plant ecology and evolution. 

Meet the Guest Editors

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Isabel Barrio: Agricultural University of Iceland, Iceland

Dr. Isabel C Barrio is a Professor at the Faculty of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the Agricultural University of Iceland. Her research interests relate to plant-herbivore interactions in tundra ecosystems, and her research in Iceland focuses on the impacts of sheep grazing on common highland ranges. Isabel obtained her PhD in Environmental Sciences in 2010 from the University of Castilla La Mancha, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta (Canada) before moving to Iceland in 2015. Isabel is one of the founding members of the Herbivory Network and is Subject Editor for Oikos.
 

Alessandro Rapini: The State University of Feira de Santana, Brazil

Alessandro Rapini has a B.Sc. degree (Biology) and a Ph.D. (Biological Sciences - Botany) from the University of São Paulo. He carried out post-doctoral studies at the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew-UK) and is currently a Full Professor at the Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (Brazil), where he has worked since 2002. He joined BMC in 2021 and has expertise in Plant Systematics, biogeography, and conservation, with a particular interest in the Neotropical flora.
 

About the collection


BMC Ecology and Evolution has published this Collection on "Plants under pressure: the impact of environmental change on plant ecology and evolution."

Plants are our ancient allies, sustaining and nourishing life, yet many human actions are putting them increasingly under pressure. Worryingly, 39.4% of all plant species are now threatened with extinction, according to Royal Botanic Gardens Kew's 2020 State of the World's Plants and Fungi report. To highlight this issue and support the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 6: Clean water and sanitation, 13: Climate action, 14: Life below water and 15: Life on land, BMC Ecology and Evolution has published this Collection to bring together research on:

  • the impact of environmental change on plant ecology and evolution (e.g., climate and land use change),
  • threats to plant survival (e.g., the introduction of invasive species, changes in consumer populations and potential consequences of plant loss to ecosystem functioning),
  • halting and reversing plant biodiversity loss,
  • and methods to monitor changes in plant species composition (e.g., eDNA and remote sensing).

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  1. Anthropogenic threats are causing alteration of coastal areas worldwide. Most of the coastal biodiversity is endangered, taking a particular toll on island ecosystems, like the Azores. To better understand the...

    Authors: Rúben M. Correia Rego, Mónica Moura, Maria Olangua-Corral, Guilherme Roxo, Roberto Resendes and Luís Silva
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:111
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Artificial light at night, also referred to as light pollution (LP), has been shown to affect many organisms. However, little is known about the extent to which ecological interactions between earthworms and p...

    Authors: Marion Mittmannsgruber, Zenia Kavassilas, Bernhard Spangl, Edith Gruber, Elias Jagg and Johann G. Zaller
    Citation: BMC Ecology and Evolution 2024 24:10
    Content type: Research Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Plants under pressure: the impact of environment change on plant ecology and evolution" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.