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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

A new study by Dr. Angela Harris from The University of Manchester and Professor Richard Bardgett from Lancaster University ...