Ecosystems
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.
Ecosystems
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?
Ecosystems
Hybrid coffee cultivars may enhance agroecosystem resilience to climate change
Your daily cup of coffee could be threatened by climate change, but targeted plant breeding may be here to help.
Ecosystems
Stomatal traits do not determine species range via abiotic stress tolerance in Pooideae
Stomatal trait variation may have evolved more in response to pathogens than climate, or climate may be affecting the traits in unexpected ways.
Ecosystems
Agriculture changes plant disease dynamics in nearby wild plants
Landscape management could help combat plant viruses.
Ecosystems
Nature in the city: how to protect Perth’s Banksia woodlands?
Concerned scientists have come together to identify key threats and research priorities for a Threatened Ecological Community in Western Australia.
Ecosystems
A hybridisation headache hinders control of invasive Prosopis species
Can large scale biogeographic studies provide insights into Prosopis genetic diversity, hybridisation and clarify taxonomic uncertainties?
Ecosystems
How big is that tree? Estimations are tricky but Terrestrial Laser Scanning helps!
New study uses laser scanning of urban trees for mathematical models
Ecosystems
Historical angle important in centre-periphery approaches to species performance
Accounting for the historical range can help explain trait variation in some cases.
Ecosystems
Fast and small stomata optimise the water use efficiency of sugar beet
Can a better understanding of stomatal physiology make sugar beet more productive and resilient into the future?
Ecosystems
A new system for simultaneous measurement of photosynthesis and solar-induced fluorescence
Can solar-induced fluorescence be used to accurately estimate photosynthetic traits at different scales?
Ecosystems
Introducing a new AoBP section, Natural History and Conservation
The new section of the open-access non-profit journal AoBP will focus on revealing unknown ecological, genetic and evolutionary aspects of land plants.