Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel have provided experimental evidence ...

Plants do not stay silent. New research shows how plant diversity changes smell based communication across ecosystems.

Learn how plants communicate through chemical signals, and why losing biodiversity can disrupt these hidden communication ...

A new study has revealed a natural solution to mitigate the effects of climate change, such as extreme weather events. Researchers from Leipzig University, the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that the loss of plant species due to climate change and human activities could release vast amounts of stored carbon into the atmosphere, potentially accelerating climate change.

Researchers have shown -- for the first time -- that less intensively managed British grazed grasslands have on average 50% more plant species and better soil health than intensively managed grassland ...

Large-scale biodiversity maps are essential to macroecology. However, between-region comparisons can be more useful if patterns of observed species richness are supplemented by variations in dark ...

Co-author Peggy Schultz of the University of Kansas collects data on plots with undergraduate workers. Credit: KU Marketing A study appearing in Nature Communications based on field and greenhouse ...