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Plants aren’t always as good at photosynthesis as you might think. Our research project wants to help them.
Puddles are an often-ignored but crucial habitat for rare and unusual wildlife.
An ecologist, a mathematician and a taxonomist were locked down together in a suburban house. So they counted all the species of plants and animals they could find.
From dark dragonflies becoming paler to plants flowering earlier, some species are slowly evolving with the climate. Evolutionary biologists explain why few will evolve fast enough.
Climate modelling that best accounts for the processes that sustain plant life predicts plants could absorb up to 20% more CO₂ than the simplest version predicted.
The meadow spittlebug can transmit a deadly bacterium – many plants in Britain could be at risk.
A research accident in the Binder lab at the University of Tennessee led to an unprecedented discovery about how plants respond to a hormone called ethylene.
Mountain flora in the Kaokoveld deserve priority conservation efforts.
As the climate warms, devastating fires are increasingly likely. The 2020 fires pushed the Southern Rockies beyond the historical average. Is there hope for the Northern Rockies?
Recent study investigated how fast genes are being transferred between distantly related species.
Botanizing is the practice of observing and appreciating plant life. Two plant scientists explain how it benefits people and the planet.
Some rhododendron fossils are 60 million years old, showing they were around before the Himalayas were formed.
Stories in Greek mythology on the cycle of nature showing youth, death and rejuvenation can have lessons for us today on how grief changes over time and transforms who we are as people.
Plants have not lost their capacity for innovation over the years, finds new study.
Boreal plants produce molecules that are valued by traditional medicines and inspire the development of medicinal products by contemporary chemists.
With more than one species for every person on the planet, soils are the most diverse habitat on Earth.
Some boreal plant species are classified — and treated — as weeds, affecting Indigenous communities’ access to important cultural, medicinal and ceremonial resources.
Native common wildflowers provide large amounts of pollen and nectar for insects – but many are undervalued by the public.
The soil was extracted during the Cold War from beneath one of the U.S military’s most unusual bases, then forgotten for decades.
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry, University of Westminster
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Grinnell College
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Research Scientist in Biodiversity and Human Health, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Biology, Edge Hill University
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Plant Evolutionary Biologist, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Research fellow, University of Aberdeen
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Palaeontologist, Rhodes University
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Edith Cowan University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, iThemba LABS
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Ph.D. Student in the School of Plant and Environmental Science, Virginia Tech
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Professor of Horticultural Sciences and Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
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Professor, School of Science, Edith Cowan University
