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
Functional acclimation across microgeographic scales in Dodonaea viscosa
Intraspecific plant functional trait variation provides mechanistic insight into persistence and can infer population adaptive capacity. However, most studies explore intraspecific trait variation in systems where...
William Salter
Using dormant twigs to investigate climate change (Viewpoint)
Climate change has altered the spring phenology of many temperate plants, with important ecological consequences. However, studies of phenological shifts are generally restricted to field observations or remote-sensing...
botanyone
Leaf senescence varies widely across species and sites
Climate change is altering leaf senescence phenology but variation in the phenology of leaf senescence among species & locations is still poorly understood.
