Researchers found that plant species with certain traits, like longer bloom periods and efficient resource utilisation, are more likely to successfully thrive in foreign environments.
Tag - plant traits
Dale Maylea
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Predicting native plant responses to Japanese knotweed invasion
Can plant functional traits help to predict responses to Reynoutria japonica invasion in riparian and fallow ecosystems in southern Poland?
William Salter
Under pressure: How do plants strike a balance between growth and defense?
A novel modelling approach explores how resource availability, competition pressure and insect herbivore pressure drive selection.
Rachel Shekar
As above, so below? Comparing above- and below-ground functional traits
Root systems face different pressures and economies than do leaves.
Erin Zimmerman
Bacteria living within plants can change them in unpredictable ways
Endophytic bacteria, microbes living in plant tissue, can change how a plant grows. But experiments with microbe communities shows that it's not in a predictable way.
The Hidden Value of Bud Banks
A Bud Bank is not just a Seed Bank in a different form. It can affect populations of plants in a considerably different way.
Alun Salt
Traits control the digestibility-decomposition relationship
Fibre concentration and dry matter content can be considered as good predictors of both digestibility and decomposability.
botanyone
Population-level plasticity drives plant trait variation along elevation
Within a species, plant traits may vary substantially along environmental gradients. However, is such variation (1) consistent across locations and (2) genetic or non-genetic (i.e., plastic) in nature? In a recent...
AoBPLANTS
Plant functional types in Earth system models – application of dynamic vegetation models in high-latitude ecosystems
A review of the origins of the plant functional type concept also addresses the current state of models that use PFTs in northern high-latitude ecosystems.
AJ Cann
Functional traits and plant invasions (Invited Review)
Global environmental change will affect non-native plant invasions, with profound potential impacts on native plant populations, communities and ecosystems. In this context, Drenovsky et al. review plant functional...
Big (and I mean GINORMOUS) new journal
Science has always been a ‘big’ topic – and not just those terrabucks physics projects – it asks some of the biggest questions of all: who are we? why are we here? why are you reading this? But, as technology has...
Nigel Chaffey