Why would a plant not frequently exposed to fire evolve to burn well?
Tag - phylogenetic signal
Liam Elliott
Puzzles in Moss Genome Evolution
Some plants have pairs of chromosomes, they’re diploid organisms like us. Other plants have more than two copies of chromosomes, they’re polyploid. Strawberries can even be octoploid. Mosses can be polyploid too, but a...
Fi Gennu
Aquilegia performs better in soils influenced by distant relatives
Growing evidence suggests that plant–soil interactions have important implications for plant community composition. However, the role of phylogenetic relatedness in governing interactions between plants and soil biota...
AoBPLANTS
Disturbance by a native fossorial rodent favours plant invasion in arid shrubland
Disturbance events, such as cattle grazing or human activities, remove plant individuals and thereby create opportunities for non-native plants to colonise the community. Disturbance often favours exotic plant species...
botanyone
Plants with similar colours attract different pollinators
Different pollinator groups (bees, ants, wasps, flies, beetles and butterflies) preferentially visit flowers of certain colours. Interestingly, these colour preferences match the predictions of the pollination syndrome...
Introduced and invasive cactus species–a global review
Understanding which species are introduced and become invasive are central questions in invasion science. In this sense, the cactus family is an interesting case study. Only 57 of the 1922 cactus species are currently...
