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Ecosystems
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Microclimates in herb patches can provide refuges for overheating insects
Research shows that patches of flowering plants can provide crucial shade during heatwaves, even in surprisingly small patches.
Hedgerows act as wildlife corridors for the wildlife that cannot walk
Hedgerows may provide habitat for forest plants to colonise to travel in Europe’s patchwork woodland.
The impacts of wolf willow on a Canadian grassland ecosystem
How do the architecture and spatial arrangement of shrubs impact understory species in a Canadian savannah ecosystem?
Sub-lethal pesticides might still kill ecosystems
The damage caused by sub-lethal pesticides to pollinators may show up first in plants, not bees.
Species may not always move in the directions we predict under climate change
A recent field experiment reveals the nuances of plant responses to climate change.
Citizen Science meets Urban Botany in Zürich
A citizen science project improves appreciation of plants and the ecological processes they play a part in.
The way humans introduced Australian acacias led to the rise of the worst invasive trees
Botanists collated genetic data from 51 different genetic studies on Acacia species to compare genetic diversity between native and invasive populations.
A race against time: saving seeds to protect threatened plants in California
Binational conservation efforts offer hope for the protection of plant species living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Geographic patterns of genomic diversity in the C4 grass Panicum hallii
Can new genomics approaches be used to assess and understand intraspecific diversity across large geographic distributions?
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