3D model of rhizodeposition
A new model simulates rhizodeposition patterns around growing and exuding root systems.
Category: Ecosystems
Ready and prepared: climate change may favour the expansion of the invasive species Carpobrotus edulis
Rising temperatures and decreasing levels of precipitation can magnify the invasive potential of this South African plant that has already taken over temperate coasts around the world.
The mangroves the ice left behind
In the waters of a river in Tabasco grows a population of red mangrove: a lost world whose origins can be traced back to the last glaciation.
Phenotypic plasticity to nutrient availability in a wetland invasive species
Are triploid Butomus umbellatus plants more plastic to nutrient availability than diploid plants and does this make them more invasive?
The Brazilian savanna at risk because of the combination of disturbances
The effects of climate change, fire frequency and defaunation, acting together, negatively affect the structure and function of the Brazilian savanna.
How will plant communities respond to climate change?
Functional-structural plant modelling is the key to predicting how plant communities will respond to climate change.
Intra-clonal differences in leaf physiology after fire in Cornus drummondii
Do we need to account for intra-clonal differences in response to disturbance to accurately parameterize models of clonal shrub encroachment?
Half of all plants have never been photographed in the wild
If you can’t find a photo of a plant in the wild, is that because the photo doesn’t exist – or because you’re looking in the wrong database? A recent article concludes either answer could be right, depending on the plant.
Plants drink in unknown ways on gypsum hills
Gypsum soils are dry and can be found in arid environments. Chemistry shows that a surprising variety of plants survive in them by getting water locked in crystals.
A new study reveals how the Andes have shaped the history of aquatic plants
Researchers find that the rise of the Andes created conditions in the landscape that drove speciation in aquatic plants.
Predicting native plant responses to Japanese knotweed invasion
Can plant functional traits help to predict responses to Reynoutria japonica invasion in riparian and fallow ecosystems in southern Poland?
The future of digital technologies for crops
Cyber physical technologies such as earth observation and biophysical crop modelling can play a major role in production, sustainability, and profitability of production systems in the face of climate change.
What drives plant diversity?
Computer simulations confirm that plant diversity can be explained by three assumptions.
Many mangrove restorations fail. Is there a better way?
These carbon-hoarding, coastline-protecting forests are sponges for greenhouse gases. Doing plantings right and involving local communities are key to saving them.