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. William Salter 19 Apr 2021
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. Erin Zimmerman 12 Apr 2021
Ecosystems Agriculture changes plant disease dynamics in nearby wild plants Landscape management could help combat plant viruses. Juniper Kiss 26 Mar 2021
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. Laura Skates 19 Mar 2021
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? William Salter 18 Mar 2021
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 Juniper Kiss 16 Mar 2021
Ecosystems Historical angle important in centre-periphery approaches to species performance Accounting for the historical range can help explain trait variation in some cases. Erin Zimmerman 16 Mar 2021
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? William Salter 11 Mar 2021
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? William Salter 09 Mar 2021
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. William Salter 25 Feb 2021