Title |
The demise of the largest and oldest African baobabs
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Published in |
Nature Plants, June 2018
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DOI | 10.1038/s41477-018-0170-5 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Adrian Patrut, Stephan Woodborne, Roxana T. Patrut, Laszlo Rakosy, Daniel A. Lowy, Grant Hall, Karl F. von Reden |
Abstract |
The African baobab is the biggest and longest-living angiosperm tree. By using radiocarbon dating we identified the stable architectures that enable baobabs to reach large sizes and great ages. We report that 9 of the 13 oldest and 5 of the 6 largest individuals have died, or at least their oldest parts/stems have collapsed and died, over the past 12 years; the cause of the mortalities is still unclear. |
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United States | 101 | 25% |
United Kingdom | 24 | 6% |
Canada | 14 | 3% |
Australia | 13 | 3% |
Germany | 11 | 3% |
India | 5 | 1% |
France | 4 | <1% |
Netherlands | 4 | <1% |
Denmark | 3 | <1% |
Other | 33 | 8% |
Unknown | 196 | 48% |
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Members of the public | 340 | 83% |
Scientists | 52 | 13% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 11 | 3% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 1% |
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Researcher | 21 | 22% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 13% |
Student > Master | 11 | 12% |
Student > Bachelor | 8 | 9% |
Professor | 4 | 4% |
Other | 13 | 14% |
Unknown | 25 | 27% |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 22 | 23% |
Environmental Science | 16 | 17% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 5% |
Earth and Planetary Sciences | 5 | 5% |
Engineering | 3 | 3% |
Other | 11 | 12% |
Unknown | 32 | 34% |
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