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The ongoing destruction of old-growth forests puts tropical forest species, with epiphytes as a key element, under great pressure. To maintain viable epiphyte communities in
Taxonomy & Evolution
Did flowering plants appear earlier than the fossil record indicates? Two papers independently conclude they did – and suggest what fossil evidence we should look for.
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Possessing holocentric chromosomes may confer an advantage in clastogenic conditions and environments.
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Nigel Chaffey starts a series celebrating the human life-sustaining potential of plants…
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Have we banished the hungry gap? Pat Heslop-Harrison has been talking to BBC Radio Leicester.
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The rise of angiosperms should be studied as part of the global increase in biodiversity.
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It’s Friday afternoon, so I’m relaxing with a video, in this case the latest from Brilliant Botany, a follow up to the earlier video, The Plants of Pokémon Go.
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In experimental studies, rainfall-stimulated Triodia pungens masting precipitated a large but transitory spike in soil seedbank size and burning populations 6 months after this event triggered mass recruitment.
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Bambi, heart-warming film or horror flick? The connection between deer and invasive species is complicated.
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Aridification has been a major force in cycad evolution, says José Said Gutiérrez-Ortega. It helps to explain why cycads were capable to adapt and diversify in the modern habitats, even when they originated in the early evolution of land plants.
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NIgel Chaffey returns with another tale of asyníthchory, this time involving fish.
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Experiments clearly demonstrated that plants competing with clonal sibling plants invested more in clonal reproduction as compared to plants competing with non-siblings.