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Tag: plant traits

Ecosystems

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?

by William SalterAugust 19, 2021August 20, 2021
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Computational Models Growth & Development

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.

by Rachel ShekarDecember 8, 2020December 8, 2020
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Growth & Development

As above, so below? Comparing above- and below-ground functional traits

Root systems face different pressures and economies than do leaves.

by Erin ZimmermanOctober 8, 2020October 8, 2020
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American Journal of Botany News in Brief

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.

by Dale MayleaNovember 6, 2019November 5, 2019
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Locations of buds underground
Annals of Botany News in Focus

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.

by Alun SaltJune 17, 2019June 17, 2019
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Scheme showing the putative links between traits of leaves and stems and the two degradation processes studied
Annals of Botany

Traits control the digestibility-decomposition relationship

Fibre concentration and dry matter content can be considered as good predictors of both digestibility and decomposability.

by botanyoneMarch 26, 2018March 26, 2018
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AoB PLANTS

Population-level plasticity drives plant trait variation along elevation

by AoBPLANTSAugust 30, 2017
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Plant functional types in Earth System Models (Invited Review)
Annals of Botany

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.

by AJ CannDecember 5, 2014December 5, 2014
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Functional traits and plant invasions (Invited Review)
Annals of Botany

Functional traits and plant invasions (Invited Review)

by botanyoneOctober 5, 2012August 21, 2012
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Image: Alan C. Green, ca. 1940/State Library of Victoria, Australia.
Plant Cuttings

Big (and I mean GINORMOUS) new journal

by Nigel ChaffeySeptember 5, 2011August 24, 2011
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  2. Shyam Phartyal on What lies beneath? Botanists find a disconnection between how plants behave above and below ground.January 29, 2023

    Excellent study. An additional flooding treatment could have revealed little more about this above-below ground trait relationship.

  3. Nigel Chaffey on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 18, 2023

    Good afternoon, Patrick, Aha, one now begins to wonder if the spelling Catherine in the cited source should really have…

  4. Patrick Collins on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 17, 2023

    The bisindole alkaloid catharine is said to have been published and the molecular structure can be found scattered about, though…

  5. Nigel Chaffey on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 17, 2023

    Hello Patrick, Thank you for taking th etim eto comment on this item. The source for 'catherine' that's stated in…

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