Through a course in dendrology, the study of the taxonomy of woody plants in the absence of flowers or fruits, two experts in ...

Researchers from Kyushu University have developed a new numerical model to explain the behavior of sunlight under various ...

For a plant, life in Argentina’s Monte Desert is hard enough. Daily temperatures can fluctuate dramatically; it rarely rains, and there are few nutrients in the parched soil for a hungry plant. To add ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

The majority of the threatened species do not grow in environmentally protected locations. Tropical plants in the genus ...

When self-pollination is limited, pollination needs to involve a vector to achieve pollen transport and deposition between individual plants, i.e. wind, water or animals. Animal vectors service 80% of ...

Identifying the key vector and host species that drive the transmission of zoonotic pathogens is notoriously difficult but critical for disease control. We present a nested approach for quantifying ...