The importance of light for grassland plant diversity
Field experiment shows that competition for light is the key mechanism driving loss of plant diversity under eutrophication and lack of grazing.
Tag: Understorey
Spring is coming a week earlier to European forests
Botanists found evidence for the effects of climate change stored in herbaria.
Modelling plant morphology: heteroblasty in epiphytic bromeliads
Self-shading may explain heteroblasty, a sudden change in form found in many angiosperms.
Iridoplasts, out of the shadows at last
Why can you find colourful plants, where they’re hardest to see? Iridoplasts, an overlooked plastid, improve photosynthesis and look great while doing it.