Surely once insects have brought pollen to a flower, then plant-plant interaction is over? Not so, says Gerardo Arceo-Gómez, who argues that heterospecific (or other plants') pollen arriving in a flower might affect...
Tag - Community assembly
Fi Gennu
Functional traits restrict plant community assembly at high elevations
Community structure is most likely regulated by both elevation and soil nitrogen availability.
William Salter
How do plants find a place they can call home?
How do plants occupy niches within their communities? New research shows key roles for two features: habitat filtering and limiting similarity.
Alun Salt
How do pollinators paint the landscape with colour?
When you look at a patch of flowers, you often see clusters of colour. Even when a single species can have many different colours, you get patches. Why? How does a plant know to grow with this colour and not that colour...
Functional traits in endemism hotspots and refugia
Refugia are island-like habitats that are linked to long-term environmental stability and, as a result, high endemism. Conservation of refugia and endemism hotspots should be based on a deep ecological and evolutionary...
Alex Assiry
Germination cues and community assembly in a coastal habitat
Regeneration by seed is a critical process in the life of plants, and germination traits determine the environments that a species can inhabit. Fernández-Pascual et al. study the germination of thirty species from the...
botanyone
Light partitioning in temperate rain forests
In the temperate rainforest of southern Chile, Fajardo and Siefert find that interspecific differences in the leaf mass per area (LMA) trait can explain the fine-scale partitioning of light availability gradients by...
Host tree phenology affects vascular epiphytes at the physiological, demographic and community level
The processes that govern diverse tropical plant communities have rarely been studied in life-forms other than trees. Structurally dependent vascular epiphytes, a major part of tropical biodiversity, grow in a three...
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