Open AccessIssue Information
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
plants, people, planet
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
ISSN - 2572-2611
DOI - 10.1002/ppp3.24
Subject(s) - desert (philosophy) , courtesy , citation , value (mathematics) , extinction (optical mineralogy) , computer science , library science , geography , world wide web , political science , law , geology , paleontology , machine learning
Opuntia diploursina in the Mojave Desert, Arizona, USA, overlooking Lake Mead on the Colorado River. See Olwen M. Grace's article ‘Succulent plant diversity as natural capital’ in this issue, which draws attention to the potential value of desert succulent plants, as well as the risks of extinction and invasiveness, for buffering the impacts of climate change. Image courtesy of Olwen M. Grace.