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 - diversity
Fi Gennu
Woolly, cushion, rosette: drivers of diversity in the alpine Saussurea genus
What are the mechanisms driving speciation and adaptative evolution in Saussurea, a highly diverse genus of alpine herbaceous plants?
William Salter
No need for orchids: mycorrhizal fungi do not depend on their hosts in Australia
Several fungi had distributions extending into central and northern parts of the continent, illustrating their tolerance of an extraordinarily wide range of environmental conditions.
Juniper Kiss
A sweet story: modern sugarcanes originate from three ancestral genomes
New study identifies hybridisation and backcrossing events to have led to the modern sugarcane cultivars.
Urban environments and climate change: how do we choose resilient urban trees for the future?
On a hot day in the city, the shade under a leafy tree can be a welcome relief from the sun. But can you imagine if you looked around and there were no trees in sight? Or the only trees you can see are either dead or...
Laura Skates
Ex Situ Collections Not Reaching Genetic Diversity Goals
More efficient sampling could capture greater diversity without overwhelming space constraints.
Erin Zimmerman
International Women’s Day 2017: “Diversity makes my job enjoyable”
For International Women's Day 2017, we asked plant biologist Dr Zoë Popper to write about a typical day in her working life. Here, she reflects on the importance of diversity in her job.
Zoë Popper
Endemism hotspots are linked to stable climatic refugia
What causes endemism hotspots? In a world of climate change, these refugia may be connected to areas of relative climate stability.
botanyone
Soil seed bank assembly at multiple scales
In gypsum soil communities, above-ground vegetation and seed banks are tightly connected, but mechanisms involved in their organization may differ. Peralta et al. investigated the effects of water addition, biological...
The significance of developmental robustness for species diversity
Why some taxa are more species-rich than others still represents a major conundrum in biology. Ecological opportunities and evolutionary innovations are considered main factors that drive biodiversity, but are sometimes...
Revisiting spatial scale in the productivity-species richness relationship: fundamental issues and global change implications
The relationship between climate and biodiversity has been long debated. In a changing environment, there is new emphasis to resolve this debate for practical reasons: to manage conservation efforts we need to...
AoBPLANTS
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...
Polyploidy and long-distance dispersal
Most of the numerous and remarkable range disjunctions across the southern oceans are probably the result of occasional long-distance dispersal, rather than of vicariance. Linder and Barker study the grass subfamily...
Lathyrus diversity and crop improvement (Invited Review)
Vaz Patto and Rubiales review the current status and future prospects of Lathyrus diversity conservation and characterization.
