Extra care should be taken to avoid misinterpretation of data when looking at centuries-spanning specimens.
Tag - global change
Erin Zimmerman
Agent Based Models in Plant Science
Agent-based modelling models systems as an interaction between different units, or agents. An example would be something like SimCity. In a review in Annals of Botany Zhang and DeAngelis review Agent Based Modelling in...
Fi Gennu
Advancing an interdisciplinary framework to study seed dispersal ecology
Although dispersal is generally viewed as a crucial determinant for the fitness of any organism, our understanding of its role in the persistence and spread of plant populations remains incomplete. Dispersal influences...
William Salter
Savanna tree and C4 grass acclimation responses across low-to-high CO2
By the year 2100, atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]a) could reach 800 ppm, having risen from ~200 ppm since the Neogene, beginning ~24 Myr ago. Changing [CO2]a affects plant carbon–water balance, with implications...
Alex Assiry
Consequences of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal for plant demography, communities, evolution and global change
As the single opportunity for plants to move, seed dispersal has an important impact on plant fitness, species distributions and patterns of biodiversity. However, models that predict extinction risk of species, range...
Microplastics could pose a threat to plants
There’s been plenty of media attention on the threat plastics, especially microplastics, pose to animal life. A paper in New Phytologist suggests that there’s more to this. Plants might be suffering from...
Alun Salt
Spanish mistletoe travels
Mistletoe is said to ward off evil, but it cannot ward off climate change. However, a new study from Spain shows it might be able to escape the worst for a while.
Remember the dry times: functional legacies of drought in trees
William Hammond, on an increasing threat to trees in the USA and elsewhere - drought and the embolisms it causes.
William Hammond
Not all tropical plants can stand the heat brought by climate change
How will increasing temperatures affect plants where temperatures are hottest? A paper in the Journal of Ecology looks at plants around Kilimanjaro.
Changes in composition, ecology and structure of high-mountain vegetation: a re-visitation study over 42 years
Mediterranean high-mountain ecosystems are increasingly threatened by climate change, causing biodiversity loss, habitat degradation and landscape modifications. In a new study published in AoB PLANTS, Evangelista et al...
AoBPLANTS
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
SPECIAL ISSUE: Scaling effects regulating plant response to global change
AoB PLANTS is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue titled Scaling Effects Regulating Plant Response to Global Change, edited by Elise Gornish (University of California, Davis, USA) and Sebastian...
Climate change reduces nectar secretion in two common Mediterranean plants
The negative effect of climate change on plants and plant–pollinator interactions is a matter of concern worldwide. The Mediterranean region is considered particularly susceptible to climate warming and the communities...
Plants and climate change: complexities and surprises (review)
Camille Parmesan and Mick E. Hanley introduce the special issue with a review of some of the surprises so far with plant responses to anthropogenic climate change. This issue comes from a sponsored symposium session...
