Are giant sinkholes in China's karst mountains havens or traps for the rare plants that inhabit them? A new study finds they ...
Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...
"Understanding how trees evolved to manage water stress may help us better understand how forests will respond to a changing ...
Highly valued economically, ecologically and culturally, the white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone forest species and is one of the most abundant trees across much of eastern North America. It also ...
The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a study in Nature Communications. It is the first time ...
A study is reframing a fundamental question in plant evolution: What made trees possible? Researchers from Cal Poly Humboldt, ...
New research headed by scientists at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) has demonstrated how the three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary ...