Global sensitivity analysis was used to identify key traits for Eucalyptus adaptation to climate variability and change in Brazil.
Tag - environment
Rachel Shekar
Larch, still Number 1!*
If a tree falls in a forest, can it still insulate people from sound pollution?
Nigel Chaffey
High Gene Flow Shapes the Invasion of the Bitter Vine in Asia
Mikania micrantha benefits from high gene flow when invading new territory in Asia.
Alex Assiry
Wood-wide web wins world-renowned writing award
The Overstory by Richard Powers, 2018. William Heinemann. As a would-be botanical educator who’s reviewed a lot of botany texts over the years, I don’t really have time to review – or just read – ‘novels’. But, having...
Variations in climate can cause genetic diversity in plant populations
A new paper in Science highlights how variation in an environment can mean plants have no single solution for survival. Where conditions change, genetic diversity can be the best option for a species.
Alun Salt
Elevated carbon dioxide: Getting to the root of the problem
How will plants respond to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere? Botanists at BIFoR, the Birmingham Institute for Forest Research have gone underground to find some of the answers.
Guest Author
What is it that gives mānuka floral nectar its unique composition?
The secret of mānuka honey, is mānuka nectar, but what is the secret of mānuka nectar?
Can Trees Track the Air that You Breathe?
A new paper in PLOS One says trees outside your house can act as sentinels tracking the concentrations of potentially hazardous chemicals in your home's air.
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
Building a vision for the future: creating a roadmap for UK plant sciences
Plant science has a central role to play in so many of the global challenges facing the world today, including our future food security, the conservation of biodiversity, sustaining ecosystem services, improving global...
botanyone
Succulent plants of Africa and America: Do these lookalikes live alike?
There are numerous examples in nature of distantly-related organisms converging on similar shapes that have proved useful to each. This convergent evolution can generate strikingly similar but independently evolved...
Cathy Shields
Plant establishment on unirrigated green roof modules in a subtropical climate
How useful is environmentally-friendly green roof technology in hostile climates?
annbot
GM crops – OMG?
Genetically-modifed crops have never found the acceptability in Europe that they have in other parts of the World, notably the USA. There lots of reasons for this, ranging from ill-infomed two-headed monster theories to...
AJ Cann
Plant walls, art and improving our environment
I’ve seen a new approach to use of ornamental plants several occasions recently: walls of plants covering outdoor and indoor sites. At the indoor site, in Heathrow Airport, I was even more happy to see that...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison