New study the journal New Phytologist reveals the importance of soil microbial diversity for tolerating or recovering from drought, warming and nitrogen deposition.

New study suggests that rewetting peatland forests could increase their climate change mitigation function.

New study in the journal BMC Biology found that Mediterranean olives have almost as high genetic diversity as olive cultivars

The research suggests that different categories of species have dissimilar seed germination niches, which contributes to explaining their coexistence.

Study discovers the importance of light conditions and biosynthetic regulation of mixed-linkage glucan in oats.

The extent to which propagule pressure limits the establishment of local polyploid populations remains to be determined, because we know so little.

A new study highlights the value of recognizing four reproductive syndromes within fireprone vegetation, varying in their seedling–adult spatial relations.

In a fire-adapted ecosystem, increased fire frequency altered community composition and structure of the ecosystem through changes in the position of the shrub line.

In a previous post, I wrote about a recent review on extinction risk and threats to plants and fungi that contributed to the State of the World’s Plants and Fungi (SOTWPF) report. The first afternoon session of the SOTWPF symposium focused on the recent research projects that aim to assess and predict extinction threats of […]

There is great potential for further utilizing the global genetic diversity to advance the common good.

Scientists highlight the state of the art in conservation science and point to current methods of assessment and future studies needed to mitigate species extinction.

Some plants can “escape” drought stress by speeding up their life cycles, minimising water loss and allocating more resources to roots when water is available. Over half of the world’s worst weeds are annuals and occur in arid or semi-arid regions. Understanding how some weeds can tolerate or escape water stress can help with predicting […]