The oldest among the selected eight Taitung
Cycads is the 146-year-old, which is located in Lijia Elementary School.
Cracknell then contacted
Cycad International as they were aware that the latter was exporting the Australian baobab Adansonia gregorii.
The question then arises: What type of strategies are required to improve the conservation status of
cycads? The concept of taking an integrated conservation approach for
cycad species was presented at the 9th International Conference of
Cycad Biology (Pritchard et al., 2011).
This new record of the presence of Anatrachyntis on a Neotropical species of
cycad suggests that they may be predisposed to feeding on this uniquely toxic host tissue, and that further surveys may find members of this genus associating with species throughout the Cycadales.
Demographic variation in
cycad populations inhabiting contrasting forest fragments.
The role of macrozamine and cycasin in
cycads (Cycadales) as antiherbivore defenses.
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His research led him to the story of Fossil
Cycad National Monument, a real-life example of a park that was decommissioned after visitors lifted so many of the fossils from the surface that there were none left to protect.
She wrote, "I had the good fortune to see many butterflies in a frenzy to mate and some females were also laying eggs on [one of several potted]
cycad plant[s].
In their review, Bonta and Osborne found that the Indigenous names for many
cycad species had been richly documented.
then a neurotoxicologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, briefly resurrected the BMAA hypothesis and reported shaking and paralysis in macaques fed BMAA, (9) but his work was heavily criticized by another team of neurologists that argued that people would have to eat kilograms of
cycad flour to ingest a comparable dose.