Why are there more plant species in some places than in others? Why is diversity highest in the tropics? What is the connection between biodiversity and environmental conditions? To help answer these ...

The Earth is home to a diversity of plants with highly varied forms and functions. This extraordinary morphological, physiological and biochemical diversity determines how plants adapt and respond to ...

Plants need light to grow. However, due to excess nutrients and/or the absence of herbivores less light can reach lower vegetation layers in grasslands. Consequently, few fast-growing species dominate ...

The authors behind the new plant biology textbook being published today all have one thing in common: they are all staff and ...

For the first time, every plant species in the state of Nevada can be found in a single list. Published last month, “Nevada Vascular Plants: An Annotated Checklist of the State’s Botanical Diversity” ...