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Conservation strategies are urgently needed for widely used tree species. Increasing numbers of species are threatened by overexploitation and their recovery might be poor due to
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Eugenia is the most species-rich Neotropical genus. This ‘Research in Context’ article explores the extraordinary evolutionary success of Eugenia sect. Phyllocalyx using a phylogenetic framework,
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This week Nigel Chaffey takes a closer look at mosses, the mighty colonisers of the land.
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Bromeliads occur in many oligotrophic environments, due to the evolution of leaf trichomes, epiphytism, and CAM metabolism. Among bromeliads, Tillandsioideae possess the most derived features related
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A new article argues that conservation shouldn’t be left to the countryside. There are major impacts to be made looking at pollinators in the city.
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Copeland and Harrison test the relative importance of abiotic and biotic variables on distribution of a common herb species, starflower (Trientalis latifolia, Myrsinaceae), in the Klamath-
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What could make sex better for a plant? When it brings in new genes from other plants. And this is what happens when faba beans get heat stress.
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Should seeds respond to their parents’ environments or their own? Leverett et al. hypothesize that germination would respond more strongly to a post-dispersal vegetative canopy
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Today trees reach for the light. However, a recent article says that back in the Devonian period, plants played by different rules.
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The genesis of agricultural practice marks one of the most important events in human history. Low atmospheric CO2 has previously been shown to limit the productivity
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Want to look up species in the Encyclopaedia of Life a little faster? We have a tool for that.
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A recent spate of books – e.g. Daniel Chamovitz’s “What a plant knows”, Richard Karban’s “Plant Sensing & Communication”, and “Brilliant Green” by Stefano