The demise of the largest and oldest African baobabs

dc.contributor.authorPatrut, Adrian
dc.contributor.authorWoodborne, Stephan M.
dc.contributor.authorPatrut, Roxana T.
dc.contributor.authorRakosy, Laszlo
dc.contributor.authorLowy, Daniel A.
dc.contributor.authorHall, Grant
dc.contributor.authorVon Reden, Karl F.
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-02T13:05:46Z
dc.date.issued2018-07
dc.description.abstractThe 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.departmentMammal Research Instituteen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2018-12-11
dc.description.librarianhj2018en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThe 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.urihttp://www.nature.com/nplantsen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationPatrut, 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.issn2055-026X (print)
dc.identifier.issn2055-0278 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1038/s41477-018-0170-5
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/65292
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherNature Publishing Groupen_ZA
dc.rights© 2018 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved.en_ZA
dc.subjectEcophysiologyen_ZA
dc.subjectMass spectrometryen_ZA
dc.subjectPlant physiologyen_ZA
dc.subjectAngiosperm treeen_ZA
dc.subjectAfrican baobab (Adansonia digitata L.)en_ZA
dc.titleThe demise of the largest and oldest African baobabsen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Patrut_Demise_2018.pdf
Size:
492.37 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Postprint Article
Download

License bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.75 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

Research Articles (Mammal Research Institute)
Research Articles (University of Pretoria)
Simple item page