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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,
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Nutrient cycling is greatly influenced by dominant plants that contribute high amounts of leaf litter to soils; however, less-dominant and rare species can play key
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Plants responses to environmental stresses are regulated by signalling hormones, such as jasmonic acid, salicylic acid, ethylene and abscisic acid. Plant scientists commonly use marker genes
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Chlorophylls are degraded and flavonoids synthesized during autumn senescence of deciduous trees. In a recent study by Mattila et al. published in AoB PLANTS, chlorophyll and
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Intraspecific plant functional trait variation provides mechanistic insight into persistence and can infer population adaptive capacity. However, most studies explore intraspecific trait variation in systems where
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Leaf morphological, physiological and biochemical traits tend to vary in a coordinated manner as described by the Leaf Economics Spectrum (LES). Nevertheless, some aspects, such as
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The sequencing of short standardised pieces of DNA (DNA barcodes) is commonly used to tell species apart. This approach is thought to be of limited value
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Although several studies on the night-time water use of different plant species have been reported, comparative studies under the same climatic conditions of a region
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Plants respond not only to the environment in which they find themselves, but also to that of their parents. The combination of within- and trans-generational