Phylogeography above the species level is a powerful tool for investigating patterns and processes at the boundary between divergent and reticulate relationships. In a new study published in AoB PLANTS, Tremetsberger et al. examined the evolutionary history of perennial species in the western Mediterranean composite genus Helminthotheca using DNA sequence and fingerprint data. The origin […]

Both phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation may allow widely distributed plant species to either acclimate or adapt to environmental heterogeneity. Given the typically low genetic variation of clonal plants across their habitats, phenotypic plasticity may be the primary adaptive strategy allowing them to thrive across a wide range of habitats. In a new study published […]

AoB PLANTS is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue titled Island Plant Biology—Celebrating Carlquist’s Legacy, edited by Anna Traveset (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies), Donald Drake (University of Hawaii), Christoph Kueffer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Peter Bellingham (Landcare Research), José Maria Fernández-Palacios (La Laguna University) and Clifford Morden (University of Hawaii). Sherwin […]

Modern clubmosses (Lycophytes) are a vestige of their gargantuan carboniferous ancestors that dominated the paleoflora flora for millions of years. The group has a broad global distribution ranging from tundra to tropical forests and can make up an important component of temperate northeast US forests. Yet little is known of the ecophysiology of these plants. […]

AoB PLANTS is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue titled Scaling Effects Regulating Plant Response to Global Change, edited by Elise Gornish (University of California, Davis, USA) and Sebastian Leuzinger (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand). As a result of the increasing speed and magnitude in which habitats worldwide are experiencing environmental change, making […]

Many plant-eating insects have developed the ability to eat plants that synthesize toxins, which they use to defend themselves against herbivores. While these specialized insects are good at dealing with specific plant toxins, plant species with highly variable chemistry can present a challenge. In a new study published in AoB PLANTS, Keefover-Ring tested for reciprocal […]

AoB PLANTS is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue entitled Plant Responses to Low-Oxygen Environments, edited by Michael Jackson (University of Bristol, UK) and Abdelbagi Ismail (International Rice Research Institute, Philippines). Flooding and submergence impose widespread and unpredictable environmental stresses on plants and depress the yield of most food crops. The problem is increasing, […]

Environmental conditions within a disturbance event are often regarded as uniform. There is however large variation in conditions for plant colonisers within one disturbance event, drastically affecting coloniser survival on a scale of centimetres. In a new study published in AoB PLANTS, Lembrechts et al. provide a model that combines the effect of the surrounding […]

AoB PLANTS is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue Using Ideas from Behavioural Ecology to Understand Plants, edited by James F Cahill (University of Alberta, Canada). The way that environmental and evolutionary biologists view plants is changing. In one approach, plants are viewed as a series of primarily morphological traits, from which ecological […]

AoB PLANTS is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue entitled The Role of Below-Ground Processes in Mediating Plant Invasions (edited by Inderjit, University of Delhi, India), which examines the role of soil microbial-driven belowground processes in mediating plant invasions. Both the success of plant invasions and their impacts are profoundly influenced by […]

Floral attributes evolve in response to frequent and efficient pollinators, which are potentially important drivers of floral diversification and reproductive isolation. In this context, in a new study published in AoB PLANTS, Queiroz et al. investigated pollination in two co-flowering Ipomoea taxa (I. marcellia and I. aff. marcellia) that share the same pollinators (bats and […]

AoB PLANTS is pleased to announce that our website now provides valuable information about how each article published in our journal is being used by the scientific community. Article-level metrics reveal how many times a particular article has been downloaded and (via Altmetric) how much attention the article has received online via social media, blogs, […]