Community structure is most likely regulated by both elevation and soil nitrogen availability.
Category - Ecosystems
William Salter
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
Liam Elliott
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.
Erin Zimmerman
‘Out of Iberia’: How Bristol rock cress got to where it is today
Is a population of rare cress found near Bristol, UK, a remnant of an ice age population, or is it part of a wider European population that survived in refugia somewhere?
The importance of quantitative trait differentiation in habitat restoration
Successful restoration of habitats relies on the sourcing of seed appropriate to the restoration environment. The use of non-adapted genotypes can compromise the long-term success of restoration programmes if fitness of...
‘Two households, both alike …’? How differences between sexes varies with time in flowering plants
‘Two households, both alike in dignity’ is famously the opening line of Romeo & Juliet. How alike houses Montague and Capulet actually are is debatable, but what is clear is that plants with two households can be...
Reconsidering the conservation of an endangered tree in Brazil: one species or a hybrid?
Have you ever gone for a walk and noticed that the landscape has changed? Changes in plant species are easy to spot between, for example, a meadow and a forest. The transition area of biomes is called an ecotone which...
Juniper Kiss
Population genetic variability and distribution of the endangered Greek endemic Cicer graecum
In recent years, wild relatives of crop species have come under the spotlight as a potential solution to the genetic bottleneck experienced by many domesticated crops. Crop wild relatives (CWRs) have also been...
Control of masting may be epigenetic
Successive years of epigenetic marking may allow trees to ‘remember’ the conditions of the past few years.
Functional composition of subalpine and alpine vegetation in the Apennine mountains
Alpine ecosystems are shaped by climatic stress, particularly extremes of temperature and precipitation. Characterising plant functional adaptations to such stresses can give us a better understanding of a whole...
