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AoB PLANTS is an open-access, online journal that publishes peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of environmental and evolutionary biology. Published by Oxford University Press, AoB PLANTS provides a
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Plant reproduction is often limited by the availability of pollinators, which are themselves dependent on larval host plants. The Palamedes swallowtail butterfly is abundant in the
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The severity of the effects that large disturbance events such as hurricanes can have on the forest canopy and the associated mechanically dependent plant community (epiphytes,
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Recent biodiversity experiments using sown plant communities suggest a positive effect of plant species diversity on ecosystem functioning and resource use. However, are these experimental results
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In 1759, Linnaeus convinced his followers that plants could hybridize by crossing flowers in the daisy family and producing intermediate offspring. These hybrids, between Tragopogon pratensis
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To combat the growing problems associated with biological invasions, many researchers have focused on identifying which communities are most vulnerable to invasion by exotic species. However,
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Although enhanced carbon fixation by forest trees may contribute significantly to mitigating an increase in atmospheric CO2, capacities for this fixation vary greatly among different tree
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Although endemic shrubs in arid and semiarid ecosystems are often in danger of extinction, they can play useful roles in maintaining or restoring an ecosystem, and
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Whole plastid genomes (plastomes) are being sequenced rapidly from across the green plant tree of life, and phylogenetic analyses of these are increasing resolution and support
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Plant growth at extremely high elevations is constrained by high daily thermal amplitude, strong solar radiation, and water scarcity. These conditions are particularly harsh in the
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Within the invasion ecology literature, it is often noted that abiotically stressful environments are typically less invaded by non-native plants than nearby less-stressful environments.
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The leaf economics spectrum (LES) is a global set of patterns that describes correlations between functional traits (e.g. carbon assimilation rate, lifespan) that determine terrestrial
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The leaves and fruits of some of the approximately 230 species of hawthorn (Crataegus) yield natural health products with significant therapeutic effects on symptoms of cardiovascular