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William (Tam) Salter is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Sydney Institute of Agriculture at the University of Sydney. He has a bachelor degree in Eco
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Plants simultaneously interact with beneficial and antagonistic organisms such as mycorrhizal fungi and herbivores, respectively. Both mycorrhizae and herbivore damage cause rapid changes in source–sink
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Many plant species are limited to habitats relatively unaffected by anthropogenic disturbance, so protecting these undisturbed habitats is essential for plant conservation. Coefficients of conservatism (C
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Although the negative effects of root herbivores on plant fitness are expected to be similar to those of aboveground herbivores, the study of belowground plant defenses
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Invasive plant species can have many, often detrimental, impacts on native plant communities, especially when they reach high densities and form monospecific stands. Monospecific stands are
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Seed dormancy status regulates the response of seeds to environmental cues that can trigger germination. Anigozanthos flavidus (Haemodoraceae) produces seeds with morphophysiological dormancy that are known
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Flowering time is shifting with climate change. Pollinators may respond differently to changes in temperature and moisture than the flowers they visit, resulting in a phenological
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Interactions between plants and soil microbes play an important role in structuring terrestrial ecosystems by influencing plant growth and competitive ability. Abiotic conditions such as varying
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Fragmentation of natural habitats generally has negative effects on the reproductive success of many plant species; however, little is known about epiphytic plants. Epiphytes are non-
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Plants are regularly attacked by enemies such as herbivores and pathogens. Not surprisingly, plants have evolved ways of coping with these attacks. One way is to
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In vascular plants, water and carbon economics are closely coupled. In mosses, this relationship has been little studied but a strong coupling is expected because photosynthesis
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Understanding how trees mediate the effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance is fundamental to developing sustainable forest management strategies. Several tree species in Africa are repeatedly defoliated
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Both intrinsic and extrinsic plant processes affect the fate of flowers along an inflorescence in sequentially flowering plants. In a study recently published in AoB PLANTS,