With both leaves and roots of epiphytes exposed to the atmosphere, can these plants be used as a model to explore co-evolution of root and leaf anatomical traits?
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William Salter
Climate Change Spells Bad News for Bambi
Optimum vegetation for the roe deer reproductive season is coming earlier in the year, but the birth dates lagging, leaving less forage for deer at a critical time.
Alun Salt
Sketch by Goethe may be first depiction of intraspecific trait variation
Though the phenomenon was known in Goethe’s time, research didn’t start in earnest for another century.
Erin Zimmerman
Stress or Strain Gradient Hypothesis?
The Stress Gradient Hypothesis (SGH) proposes that competition prevails in undisturbed and productive environments, and shifts to facilitation in disturbed or stressful environments. Yet the environmental condition...
botanyone
Trade-off among different anti-herbivore defence strategies along altitudinal gradient
The type and intensity of plant–herbivore interactions are likely to be changed under climate change as a consequence of differential dispersal rates of plants and their herbivores. In a new study published in AoB...
AoBPLANTS
Pollen-mediated gene flow along an altitudinal gradient
Genetic connectivity is crucial in rapidly changing environments as it allows exchange and dispersal of adaptive genes among plant populations.
Seed quality at tree species’ altitudinal limits
The low-temperature range limit of tree species may be determined by their ability to produce and disperse viable seeds, with processes such as flowering, pollen tube growth, fertilization, embryogenesis and seed...
