The demise of the largest and oldest African baobabs
dc.contributor.author | Patrut, Adrian | |
dc.contributor.author | Woodborne, Stephan M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Patrut, Roxana T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Rakosy, Laszlo | |
dc.contributor.author | Lowy, Daniel A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Hall, Grant | |
dc.contributor.author | Von Reden, Karl F. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-02T13:05:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-07 | |
dc.description.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. | en_ZA |
dc.description.department | Mammal Research Institute | en_ZA |
dc.description.embargo | 2018-12-11 | |
dc.description.librarian | hj2018 | en_ZA |
dc.description.sponsorship | The Romanian Ministry of National Education CNCS-UEFISCDI under grant PN-II-ID-PCE-2013-76 and by the Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation CNCS-UEFISCDI under grant PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0776, no. 90/2017. | en_ZA |
dc.description.uri | http://www.nature.com/nplants | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Patrut, A., Woodborne, S., Patrut, R.T. et al. 2018, 'The demise of the largest and oldest African baobabs', Nature Plants, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 423-426. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.issn | 2055-026X (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2055-0278 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1038/s41477-018-0170-5 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65292 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | Nature Publishing Group | en_ZA |
dc.rights | © 2018 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Ecophysiology | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Mass spectrometry | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Plant physiology | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Angiosperm tree | en_ZA |
dc.subject | African baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) | en_ZA |
dc.title | The demise of the largest and oldest African baobabs | en_ZA |
dc.type | Postprint Article | en_ZA |