Ecologists with a burning desire to protect forests have grim news for the western United States.

Human-caused disturbances can affect the ability of animals to help spread seeds, which could reduce the amount of plant diversity in some forests.

Restoring semi-natural habitats can help increase the yield of macadamia orchards without needing extra input, making production more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Plant translocation is a difficult process. How are conservationists using it as a tool?

Visscher and colleagues propose that global analyses of seed traits with evidence for geographical variation prioritize the generation of new data from tropical regions as well as multi-lingual searches to fill geographical and taxonomic gaps.

Modern botanists have revisited sites examined by Alexander von Humboldt. Have modern advances made the German polymath's work irrelevant?

The complex relationships between plants and their pollinators in subarctic Finland have changed dramatically across the last century

Biologists have talked about bringing back extinct species like the dodo, but now botanists have drawn up a list of extinct plants that might be able to return to the wild.

The long days of summer are stretching into winter, with LED street lights replacing the retreating sun.

Global warming is leading to longer growing seasons worldwide, with many plants growing earlier in spring and continuing longer in autumn thanks to warmer temperatures—so the general opinion. Now, however, plant ecologists at the University of Basel have been able to show that this is not the case for the most common type of alpine […]

Sometimes it takes a shorter plant to help a liana get to the top.

Field experiment shows that competition for light is the key mechanism driving loss of plant diversity under eutrophication and lack of grazing.