Why are there more plant species in some places than in others? Why is diversity highest in the tropics? What is the connection between biodiversity and environmental conditions? To help answer these ...

(This May 23 story has been repeated with no changes to the text) By Marta Serafinko May 23 (Reuters) - Some of the plants that make familiar landscapes recognizable may not survive by century's end ...

There's a conundrum that has perplexed biologists since Charles Darwin himself. Why do some exotic species take off as ...

Peter Raven transformed the field of botany. His research in plant evolution, classification and biogeography deepened our understanding of how ...

Pressed plant specimens collected centuries ago and stored in herbaria around the world could play a key role in facilitating ...

They don’t retain water and increase runoff, plus whatever was on the parking lot surface prior. Plant diversity is limited to stunted volunteers from airborne seeds and insects, to those that can ...