When looking at forests, we hardly get to see beyond a bunch of green. However, for a plant ecologist, forests represent a much more complex world consisting of different species. This diversity of ...

Katherine L. Petrie received funding from the ELSI Origins Network, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. The ideas expressed herein are not necessarily those of the funders. Justin Meyer does not ...

Researchers find a native plant rapidly splitting into unique urban types as heat islands and city microclimates accelerate ...

Oceanic islands provide useful models for ecology, biogeography and evolutionary research. Many ground-breaking findings – including Darwin's theory of evolution – have emerged from the study of ...

Adventitious roots are roots that originate from nonstandard locations on a plant such as the stems or leaves. They can occur as part of a plant’s normal growth and development or they can arise due ...