Understanding what makes invasive plant species so good at invading may help us protect vulnerable plant biodiversity.
Category - Ecosystems
Liam Elliott
Plastic plants?! Nanoplastics may be bad news for plants too.
More evidence that the damaging potential of small plastics needs to extend to terrestrial environments.
Citizen science data can complement collections well for some applications
The range and occurrence of anther smut shows very similar patterns in both collections and iNaturalist data.
Erin Zimmerman
Where do halophytes grow? Influence of elevation, flooding, and salinity in a non-tidal saltmarsh
Unpredictability means that the traits needed to survive in seasonally flooded marshes are different to tidally flooded marshes.
Laura Skates
Can epigenetic diversity act as an evolutionary backup for threatened wild plants?
Genetic diversity defines the evolutionary potential of a species, yet mounting evidence suggests that epigenetic diversity could also contribute to adaptation.
William Salter
Is age just a number if you’re a plant? How plant responses to the environment change with age
Trait sensitivity to the environment is most visible during earlier stages of development, after which intraspecific trait variation and relationships may stabilize.
Wait! There is no such thing as a ‘specialist’ or ‘generalist’ plant pathogen
The latest study published in the Nature Communications journal reveals that pathogens with more diverse host plants do not have a wider temperature range.
Juniper Kiss
Functional traits restrict plant community assembly at high elevations
Community structure is most likely regulated by both elevation and soil nitrogen availability.
Non-native plant species climb mountains in a different way to native species
One way invasive species spread through an area is by harnessing variability in traits, but this doesn’t match observations of invasive species on the slopes of Mount Teide.
Fi Gennu
Advancing an interdisciplinary framework to study seed dispersal ecology
Although dispersal is generally viewed as a crucial determinant for the fitness of any organism, our understanding of its role in the persistence and spread of plant populations remains incomplete. Dispersal influences...
Even plants want it to snow! The effects of cold stress on plant communities and how snow may offset these
Snow may not necessarily be a bad thing for plants
It’s epigenetics after all! How environmentally-induced traits might support plant ecosystems
Diversity of parental environments could have comparable effects to genetic diversity in Arabidopsis.
How do some plants become flammable? Insights from Dracophyllum
Why would a plant not frequently exposed to fire evolve to burn well?
Orchid conservation must be guided by an understanding of their ecology
What makes orchids unique can also make saving them a challenge.
