Flowers may look delicate—but flowering plants, what scientists call angiosperms, are one of the most successful evolutionary organisms on the planet. Including more than 350,000 known species, they ...

Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 29, No. 2 (February 2023), pp. 232-243 (12 pages) Aim: Understanding how species' traits and environmental contexts relate to extinction risk is a critical priority ...

For many years, Charles Darwin was haunted by flowers. In 1859, the naturalist published his most famous work, On the Origin of Species, the book that is generally regarded as the foundation of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper uses information from the 2,875 angiosperm species described from Brazil between the years 1990 and 2006 to provide insights into ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have identified the huge impact of flowering plants on the evolution of life on Earth. Flowering plants today include most of the plants humans eat or drink, ...

Most of our food is from angiosperms, while more than 90% of angiosperms require insect pollination - making this pollination method hugely important. Nevertheless, scientists have long been unclear ...