Modern botanists have revisited sites examined by Alexander von Humboldt. Have modern advances made the German polymath's work irrelevant?
Tag - forest ecology
Fi Gennu
How mammals and molluscs attack oaks
Foraging decisions of molluscs and mammals repulse seedlings from old adults.
When speed is a problem in mangrove restoration
Rapid restoration isn't always the best restoration, when the restoring species is invasive.
Dale Maylea
Soil chemistry, not short-term deer exclusion, explains understory plant occupancy in Pennsylvania oak forests
A study of deer browsing has uncovered the contribution of soil chemistry to ‘the ghost of herbivory past’.
William Salter
Leaf:wood allometry and functional traits explain variation in growth rate of rainforest trees
Plant growth rates drive ecosystem productivity and are a central element of a species’ ecological strategy. For seedlings grown under controlled conditions, a large body of scientific literature has identified the...
