Native plants that suffer when black mustard invades their patch do much better when a neighbour helps.
Tag - competition
Dale Maylea
What happens when pollinators bring the wrong pollen?
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...
Fi Gennu
Under pressure: How do plants strike a balance between growth and defense?
A novel modelling approach explores how resource availability, competition pressure and insect herbivore pressure drive selection.
Rachel Shekar
Flowering plants spelled the end of gymnosperm dominance
Coupled with the negative effects of global cooling, angiosperms pushed gymnosperm extinction past the point of recovery.
Erin Zimmerman
The effects of heterospecific pollen deposition on pollen-tube growth
How does the pollen of one plant species impact the reproductive success of another?
William Salter
The role of competition, light and soil microbes on tropical tree seedling growth
Outcomes of plant-soil feedback vary depending on light availability and presence of competing plants.
Juniper Kiss
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.
Liam Elliott
An acceptable elitism? Getting the best out of nitrogen-fixing bacteria
Marcela Mendoza-Suárez and colleagues have a new tool to turbocharge legumes.
Improving overyielding in legume-based mixtures
A major challenge when supporting the development of intercropping systems remains the design of efficient species mixtures. The ecological processes that sustain overyielding of legume-based mixtures compared to pure...
Alex Assiry
Microplastic infill for artificial turfs harms grassland species
We're used to microplastics being an environmental hazard in the oceans, but research confirms it can be a problem on land too.
A plant thought to aid Nothofagus may be out-competing it
The idea was simple, Proteaceae plants are experts at releasing phosphorus from soils, so planting them alongside Nothofagus should provide the beeches with natural fertilizer. The reality is more complex.
Alun Salt
Species interactions change the response of saltmarsh plants to flooding
A coastal plant's ability to cope with temporary flooding isn't just due to its own traits. Neighbours can make a flood more, or less, tolerable.
Competition between the indigenous legume Vachellia sieberiana and the introduced Chromolaena odorata in the savannah environment
The Leguminosae is the third largest plant family, ranking behind only the Asteraceae and Orchidaceae, and is by far the most widespread group of plants, not present only in Antarctica and the Falkland Islands. Legumes...
What drives germination and seedling survival in an Afrotropical forest?
Hunting in otherwise intact tropical forests removes organisms from some trophic levels, which can change population and community dynamics at other levels. The preferred game species can be dispersers of seeds (e.g...
