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C·I·B contributes to articles in The Conversation

The Conversation Africa is running a series on invasive species. Read the articles to find out how invasive species are affecting Africa and what measures are being used to reduce their impact.

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22 May 2020
Read more about the article We need to stop looking through rose-coloured glasses – plant biodiversity in the face of climate change
Word cloud of some of the species that contributed to increased richness in 151 studies listed by Vellend et al. [8] that had taxonomic data available. The font size of species names is proportional to the number of global biogeographic regions where they are naturalized. Different species indicated by the same font colors are naturalized in the same number of regions. For illustrative purposes, only species that have been documented as naturalized in at least 20 biogeographic regions (n=186) are included. Most of these are common invasive species such as wall speedwell Veronica arvensis (A, Rasbak / CC-BY-SA-157 3.0), Bermuda grass Cynodon dactylon (B, Forest and Kim Starr / CC-BY-SA-3.0), ribwort plantain Plantago lanceolata (C, Forest and Kim Starr / CC-BY-SA-3.0) and common knotgrass Polygonum aviculare (D, Matt Lavin / CC-BY-SA-3.0).
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We need to stop looking through rose-coloured glasses – plant biodiversity in the face of climate change

In an article recently published in Current Biology, an international team led by C·I·B Research Associate Jaco Le Roux suggest that care should be taken when conveying scientific data related to biodiversity impacts caused by climate change, as policy makers often make decisions based on scientific evidence.

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18 May 2020