Plant Cuttings
Kew’s funding: ‘a recipe for failure’?
Kew Gardens works on ensuring our future as a species on this planet, but with funding cuts, we may be facing crisis talks about Kew’s continued security.
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Phenotypic plasticity to light and nutrient availability alters functional trait ranking across eight perennial grassland species
Functional traits are often used as species-specific means in trait-based predictions of ecosystem processes, assuming that interspecific differences are greater than intraspecific trait variation.
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Genetic variation, habitat destruction and survival
Habitat destruction and fragmentation affects genetic variation by reducing the size and increasing the isolation of populations.
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Pollen dispersal and breeding structure in Petunia
Results show that most pollen dispersal in subsp. axillaris occurs within populations and there is a high proportion of inbreeding.
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Defoliation, tree growth and storage of C and N
Although lenga beech trees, completely defoliated by caterpillars of Ormiscodes amphimone, do not die, they show reduced growth for at least 2 years.
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Light quality, volatile emissions and plant–plant interactions
Mimicking the proximity of neighbouring plants using a supplemental far-red light treatment on plants.
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Soil microbial community variation correlates most strongly with plant species identity
Soil microbial community variation correlates most strongly with plant species identity.
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Chilling tolerance of C4 photosynthesis in Miscanthus
A study finds relatives of Miscanthus ×giganteus with significantly superior capacity for photosynthesis at chilling temperatures for the first time.
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How tree species fill geographic and ecological space
Ricklefs analyses local assemblages of deciduous trees and finds that the forests in question do not appear to be saturated with species.
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Phylogeny and evolution of Cyperus esculentus
Results suggest that tiger nut probably originated in the late Cenozoic in Africa and reached the Americas repeatedly, independently of Columbian exchanges.
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Improving methods to evaluate the impacts of plant invasions: Lessons from 40 years of research
Methods used to evaluate the ecological impacts of biological invasions vary widely from broad-scale observational studies to removal experiments in invaded communities and experimental additions
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Pollinators and maintaining variation in flower colour
This study uses dual choice assays and experimental arrays of blue and white flowers to determine pollinators’ preference for flower colour in Aquilegia.