Plant adaptation to life on land included gaining the ability to obtain nutrients from barren terrestrial substrates. New work pinpoints a small, conserved genetic core with extensive rewiring of ...

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conspecific negative density dependence (e.g., natural enemies), and evolutionary processes, connecting the forest mosaic to a metacommunity. Plant diversity and community history can jointly ...

Dec. 10, 2024 — The genome of a once-endangered songbird shows extensive signs of inbreeding, according to a new study. Because inbreeding can negatively impact ...

Viewing nature indoors, one review of the scientific literature suggested, can lower your heart rate and blood pressure. The presence of plants in a hospital room has been shown to reduce pain and ...

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Dec. 3, 2024 — Plant species can fulfill different functions within an ecosystem, even if they are closely related to each other. This surprising conclusion was reached by a global analysis of ...

When choosing options to enhance your yard, it is important to choose plants, shrubs, trees, and other greenery that will thrive in Florida’s natural environment. Since they’ve lived here for hundreds ...

In Congo, filmmaker Vianet Djenguet comes face to face with the forest’s largest gorilla.

St John's wort has been called 'nature's Prozac' because it has similar effects ... Professor Peter Houghton, an expert in the medical uses of plants from Kings College London, says, 'St John's ...