It turns out where certain desert shrubs grow matters a lot — especially when it comes to making sure they don’t all end up looking the same. FIU assistant professor in the Institute of Environment ...
I HAVE read with great interest the letters from Prof. Salisbury and Dr. J. Phillips which have appeared in NATURE dealing with mortality in plants at different stages of their life histories. The ...
Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Jul., 2009), pp. 507-520 (14 pages) Aim: To contribute to the development of a macroevolutionary framework for riparian systems, reinforcing conceptual ...
Though Charles Darwin is most famous for his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle and his theory of natural selection, the naturalist was, at heart, a botanist. Photo illustration by Smithsonian.com / Photos ...
Do hurricanes induce rapid natural selection in tropical lizard populations? That’s the latest idea Harvard University researchers are bearing in mind after analyzing Caribbean anole lizards in the ...
New research suggests that natural selection, famous for rewarding advantageous differences in organisms, can also preserve similarities. The researchers worked with a plant called wild radish and its ...
A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and pollinators become uncoordinated, even for a ...
A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and ...