Environmental stresses including salinity, drought, cold, warmer temperatures, alterations in
precipitation patterns, fluctuations of weather events, and increasing insect and disease …

Plant–soil feedbacks is becoming an important concept for explaining vegetation dynamics,
the invasiveness of introduced exotic species in new habitats and how terrestrial …

Biodiversity is defined by trait differences between organisms, and biologists have long
sought to predict associations among ecologically important traits. Why do some traits trade …

Seagrasses are valuable sources of food and habitat for marine life and are one of Earth's
most efficient carbon sinks. However, they are facing a global decline due to ocean warming …

Food webs in nature have multiple, reticulate connections between a diversity of consumers
and resources. Such complexity affects web dynamics: it first spreads the direct effects of …

A recent trend in invasion ecology relates the success of non‐indigenous species (NIS) to
reduced control by enemies such as pathogens, parasites and predators (ie the enemy …

Plants and herbivores are remarkably variable in space and time, and variability has been
considered a defining feature of their interactions. Empirical research, however, has …

▪ Abstract The study of natural plant populations has provided some of the strongest and
most convincing cases of the operation of natural selection currently known, partly because …

Characteristics of higher plant terpenoids that result in mediation of numerous kinds of
ecological interactions are discussed as a framework for this Symposium on Chemical …

Globally, forests cover nearly one third of the land area and they contain over 80% of
terrestrial biodiversity. Both the extent and quality of forest habitat continue to decrease and …