This study examines lightning activity from 2012 to 2023 around tall structures situated across diverse geographic settings based on data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), with the aim of providing a global perspective on lightning incidence in their vicinity. Lightning stroke density was calculated within a 2 km radius of each structure and compared with that in a surrounding annular region extending fro...

Asian wild rice ( Oryza rufipogon ) that ranges widely across the eastern and southern part of Asia is recognized as the direct ancestor of cultivated Asian rice ( O. sativa ). Studies of the geographic structure of O. rufipogon , based on chloroplast and low‐copy nuclear markers, reveal a possible phylogeographic signal of subdivision in O. rufipogon . However, this signal of geographic differentiation is not consistently obs...

Understanding how crop species spread and are introduced to new areas provides insights into the nature of species range expansions. The domesticated species Oryza sativa or Asian rice is one of the key domesticated crop species in the world. The island of Madagascar off the coast of East Africa was one of the last major Old World areas of introduction of rice after the domestication of this crop species and before extensive h...