Underground trees, a type of geoxyles occurring in Afrotropical savannas and grasslands, have unique and diverse ways of surviving in tough environments, according to recent research.
Tag - disturbance
Renata Cantoro
Kentucky crayfish aids plant on the run
What looks like a pile of mud to a human is an oasis to a dwarf sundew
Alun Salt
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.
The Hidden Value of Bud Banks
A Bud Bank is not just a Seed Bank in a different form. It can affect populations of plants in a considerably different way.
Ecology of Floristic Quality Assessment: testing for correlations between coefficients of conservatism, species traits and mycorrhizal responsiveness
Many plant species are limited to habitats relatively unaffected by anthropogenic disturbance, so protecting these undisturbed habitats is essential for plant conservation. Coefficients of conservatism (C values) are...
William Salter
Rarity and nutrient acquisition relationships before and after prescribed burning in an Australian box-ironbark forest
Nutrient cycling is greatly influenced by dominant plants that contribute high amounts of leaf litter to soils; however, less-dominant and rare species can play key roles in nutrient cycling if they have unique nutrient...
Carbohydrate storage and leaf biomass scaling in meadow plants
These findings imply that storage in herbs is probably governed by factors other than just the disturbance regime applied once in a growing season.
botanyone
Plant injury can reset the ageing clock in plants but only slightly alleviates senescence
Senescence is the process of losing fitness when growing old, and is shaped by the trade-off between maintenance and reproduction that makes reproduction more unsure with age. Injury to the plant body, however, provides...
Trade-off between competition and facilitation defines gap colonisation in mountains
Environmental conditions within a disturbance event are often regarded as uniform. There is however large variation in conditions for plant colonisers within one disturbance event, drastically affecting coloniser...
AoBPLANTS
Constraints on coastal dune invasion for a notorious plant invader
Although most biological invasions are not successful, relatively few studies have examined otherwise notorious invaders in systems where they are not highly problematic. The annual grass Bromus tectorum is a dominant...
Changes in the distribution of mechanically dependent plants along a gradient of past hurricane impact
The severity of the effects that large disturbance events such as hurricanes can have on the forest canopy and the associated mechanically dependent plant community (epiphytes, climbers, etc.) is dependent on the...
Flooding and fragment size interact to determine survival and regrowth after fragmentation in two stoloniferous Trifolium species
Clonal plants are common in frequently flooded habitats because of their resilience to disturbance. In a new study published in AoB PLANTS, Huber et al. investigated whether submergence prior to fragmentation of clones...
Timberline formation and dynamics
Altitudinal timberlines are thought to be moving upward as a result of global climate change. Takahashi et al. evaluate how the timberline has formed in a zone between 2350–2600 m in central Japan where the conifer...
