Global research team explores how environmental factors and dispersal barriers influence biodiversity. Why do certain plants ...

Analyzing nearly 270,000 seed plant species worldwide ... explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024). DOI: ...

Indeed, this is how they most commonly occur, although evidence of 4- and 5-level trophic cascades have been shown in nature ... patterns suggesting widespread predator facilitation of plant ...

The variable nature of mutualistic interactions ... Bluthgen, N. Uniting pattern and process in plant-animal mutualistic networks: a review. Annals of Botany 103, 1445-1457 (2009).

Shape-shifting cells In a study published in the journal Nature, a research group ... on the surface of plant leaves. In plants, this pattern helps cells withstand internal fluid pressure, which ...