An international research team including KAUST's Fernando Maestre conducted a field survey to investigate the impacts of aridity and grazing pressure on the chemical and morphological trait diversity ...

Medicinal plants across the world are exemplary models for studying the evolutionary and ecological processes that shape ...

A study appearing in Nature Communications based on field and greenhouse experiments at the University of Kansas shows how a boost in agricultural yield comes from planting diverse crops rather than ...

Land plants—such as mosses, ferns and trees—are some of the ... "This tells us that we need to sample a broad diversity of ...

The Millennium Seed Bank at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew marks its 25th anniversary. It stores over 2.5 billion wild plant ...

The study results showed that supplementary light could restore lost plant diversity in all nutrient addition scenarios.

Planting forests with diverse species can help ensure their success, according to a new study published May 18 from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and The Nature Conservancy. The ...

In some circles, agriculture is a tough sell these days. There are many who believe our survival is linked to hyper-industrial food products, simulacra of the food we know. Others think we should ...