biodiversity
Biodiversity encompasses the variability of life across genetic, species, and ecosystem levels. For plant science, understanding plant biodiversity is fundamental to ecosystem conservation, as plants drive ecosystem functions and provide essential resources for medicine, agriculture, and food security. Studying plant diversity helps researchers develop sustainable management practices and predict how plant communities respond to environmental change.
open_in_new WikipediaWhy, when, and how microbes can benefit ecological restorations: cu...
Health of your garden, local park, or nearby forest depends on invisible soil life that doesn't a...
Global Drivers of Plant-Pollinator Interaction Specialization in Gardens.
Design and location of your garden — whether it's in a city or the suburbs, small or large, and e...
Diverse forests help soil microbes store more carbon as temperatures rise
Every mixed-species planting in your yard or neighborhood, from a backyard food forest to a stree...
Playgrounds as microbial interfaces: strategies to enhance soil mic...
The soil in your neighborhood park is a living microbial community, and how much of it children c...
Yunnan's Jinuo healers know 226 medicinal plants, but their knowled...
Plantain, the 'weed' most gardeners yank from their lawns, ranks as the single most culturally im...
Diversity and Ethnobotany of the Family Zingiberaceae in Lop Buri P...
Turmeric, galangal, cardamom, and ginger all belong to the same plant family — and this study rev...
Effects of restoration practices on biodiversity in temperate and b...
The mosaic of dead logs, open patches, and scorched ground that forest managers create mirrors th...
The rarest invaders: systematic global evidence for the conservatio...
A plant you might find listed as endangered in a botanical garden catalog could be the same speci...
DNA-based identification of plants and the genomic nature of plant ...
Better plant DNA identification means the herbs at your farmers market, the wildflowers in your l...
From individuals to networks: The role of variation in plant-pollin...
The bumblebees visiting your garden aren't interchangeable — some handle heat waves better, some ...
Plant and bacterial diversity co-regulate ecosystem multifunctional...
Mixing clovers and wildflowers into a grass-only lawn patch or meadow strip doesn't just add colo...
Expanding insights into plant rhabdovirus diversity through the dis...
Unknown plant viruses can silently devastate crops and garden plants — discovering them is the fi...
Ecological drift and host filtering jointly structure foliar endoph...
The bacteria and fungi quietly living inside the leaves of every plant in your garden are largely...
Worms about town: a citizen science project discovers microsporidia...
The microscopic worms tunneling through your garden soil include both plant helpers and plant des...
The origin of mechanical advantage in angiosperms
Every tomato, apple, and oak in your yard owes its ability to thrive in heat and drought partly t...
Exploring the global mosaic of medicinal plant databases: unveiling...
Herbal remedies your grandmother swore by — and the plants you may be growing in your garden righ...
Trait-mediated interactions drive local diversity.
When you plant a sparse native wildflower patch, the slow-growing, drought-thrifty species in the...
Addressing taxonomy shortfalls requires an educational reform.
Thousands of plants growing in your garden, local woods, or the produce aisle may still lack offi...
Surviving ancestors, hard polytomies, and seed plant evolution.
Every seed plant you eat, grow, or walk past — from oaks to wheat to roses — belongs to a family ...
Vertical stratification and seasonality of fruit-feeding butterfly ...
Fruit-bearing trees in dry forests depend on butterflies to signal ecosystem health — when canopy...
Plants get less research attention than animals, and conservation n...
The overlooked native wildflowers and shrubs in your yard or local park are exactly the kind of s...
One mushroom turned out to be 22 hidden species
If you've ever hiked through a boggy northern forest and walked past an unremarkable little brown...
Soil worms peak in diversity at mid-mountain elevations, not the top
The soil under your garden beds hosts thousands of nematodes you'll never see, and the ratio of b...
Why are so few island bryophytes endemic?
Those velvety green mosses carpeting the rocks and logs in shaded ravines or ancient woodlands ar...
Three new wood-rotting fungi species found hiding in Brazilian forests
The flat, crust-like fungi growing on fallen logs in shaded forest trails are often overlooked en...
Local plant knowledge holders should be credited as real scientists
The plant names, uses, and seasonal cues your grandmother or a village elder knows by heart often...
Identical-looking soil amoebas turn out to be metabolically distinct
The soil under your garden beds teems with microscopic predators like these amoebas that graze on...
An Evolving View of Character Macroevolution.
Every wildflower color, leaf shape, and bark texture you notice on a hike is the product of milli...
Forest mammals sort themselves by height, slope, and soil type
The same layered complexity that makes a Congo rainforest tick exists in any mature woodland or f...
Scientists split one stink bug species into three distinct ones
If you've ever squished a colorful shield-shaped bug on your tomato plants, this kind of careful ...
