Is there a difference between emergent aquatic and terrestrial monocot herbs when it comes to coordination of leaf stomatal and vein traits?
Category - Ecosystems
William Salter
Quantification of pasture ground cover and botanical composition for sustainable grazing management
A combination of high resolution multi-spectral imagery and supervised learning effectively distinguishes between pasture species and seasonal changes in botanical composition.
Rachel Shekar
Genetic structure of the riparian invasive tree Robinia pseudoacacia
Can a better understanding of invasive tree migration help to improve management practices of riparian ecosystems?
Living on the edge of fragmented forests: distance, insects and fungi impact plant traits
Seedling establishment is a crucial bottleneck in plant population dynamics, but seedlings don't behave the same way fully-grown trees do.
Juniper Kiss
Contrasting growth responses of Melastoma malabathricum populations to aluminium addition
Do M. malabathricum seedlings respond positively to the
addition of aluminium to the growth medium?
Belowground responses of grassland plant species to wind intensity
Does wind intensity affect biomass allocation, root morphology and plant-soil interactions of grassland plants?
Global climate change and grasslands: soil microbial diversity to the rescue!
New study the journal New Phytologist reveals the importance of soil microbial diversity for tolerating or recovering from drought, warming and nitrogen deposition.
Very fine roots act as renewed carbon sink in rewetted peatland forest
New study suggests that rewetting peatland forests could increase their climate change mitigation function.
Biotic interactions of native and non-native species under future warming
How do abiotic and biotic factors influence range expansion of closely related native and non-native Eugenia shrub species?
How do plants colonise new territories?
The research suggests that different categories of species have dissimilar seed germination niches, which contributes to explaining their coexistence.
As a keystone clade, Miconia species support a huge variety of frugivores
Different species fruit sequentially, offering a year-round food resource.
Erin Zimmerman
Fighting for resources – a native forb competitively excludes a closely related introduced species
Do niche or fitness differences prevent local-scale long-term coexistence between two closely related annual plant species?
Four plant strategies to deal with fire
A new study highlights the value of recognizing four reproductive syndromes within fireprone vegetation, varying in their seedling–adult spatial relations.
Burn it all down: leaf traits change more than species composition
In a fire-adapted ecosystem, increased fire frequency altered community composition and structure of the ecosystem through changes in the position of the shrub line.
