Question: Most results of restoration efforts are species-specific and/or site-specific and therefore are not general enough to be easily applied to other species and other sites. Our research ...

Plant Ecology, Vol. 217, No. 11, Special Issue: Plant-Eye-View Perspectives on Traits, Populations and Communities (NOVEMBER 2016), pp. 1297-1306 (10 pages) Plant traits affect the success or failure ...

A new database of plants' traits will help scientists around the world learn more about how climate change is affecting ecosystems. The availability of plant trait data in the unified global database ...

New clues about plant structure are helping researchers narrow down a large collection of poplar tree candidates and identify winners for future use in biofuel production. New clues about plant ...

Some plants stay healthy even when a key nutrient drops. New research explains the root and cell tricks that help plants ...

Plant species vary greatly in how efficiently they convert sunlight into organic matter, how fast they reproduce, how much nutrients and water they need, how much carbon they store, or how fast their ...

A new study suggests that modern flowering plants, trees and agricultural crops may not have the characteristics, or the time, to respond to rapid human-induced climate change. The report in Nature ...

The phenome of a plant comprises the entirety of traits expressed at any given time, and is the integrated outcome of the effects of genetic factors, environmental conditions and their complex ...

Giles Oldroyd receives funding from Bill and Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the Allan and Gill ...

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