The bromeliads comprise one of the most eclectic plant families in the Americas, including epiphytes in rainforests, ...

Lush seagrass meadows carpet the floor of the Mediterranean Sea off the Italian island of Elba. Seagrasses help form an important ecosystem in coastal environments, and they absorb a significant ...

An enigmatic group of fossil organisms has finally been identified—and is changing the story of how plants took root on land ...

Terrestrial net primary production (NPP) varies across global climate gradients, but the mechanisms through which climate drives this variation remain subject to debate. Specifically, it is debatable ...

University of Copenhagen researchers have shed new light on how plant life became established on the surface of our planet. Specifically, they demonstrated that two genes are indispensable for ...

A new study from the University of Minnesota found that several species of parasitic fungi were effective at killing emerald ...

Farmers plant or preserve riparian buffers for various reasons, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion, or maintaining hunting habitat. Now, a new study from the University of Illinois ...

Herbivores induce plants to undergo diverse processes that minimize costs to the plant, such as producing defences to deter herbivory or reallocating limited resources to inaccessible portions of the ...