If a plant can lean on something else, does it really need to invest so much in its roots for support? Could resources usually used for roots be redirected to stems and leaves? In a new paper, Tomasz Wyka and colleagues...
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Alun Salt
It’s not just Tarzan who liked lianas – Darwin did too
Plant ecologists have long sought to classify the bewildering variety of plant species into a manageable number of functional types that could be used to represent the essential characteristics of particular biomes or...
AJ Cann