Researchers involved in cataloguing the world's plant species are hunting for answers as to what makes some groups of plants so successful. One of their major goals is to predict more accurately which ...

The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with Morgan Gostel, the new John J. Willaman Director of Plant Science at the Morris Arboretum. Gostel — who joined the arboretum in October 2025 — conducts research ...

For decades, scientists and conservationists have been using aboveground plant biodiversity as a metric for conserving ecosystems. Now a new study finds that there is a major mismatch between ...

The sun is the basis for photosynthesis, but not all plants thrive in strong sunlight. Strong sunlight constrains plant diversity and plant biomass in the world's grasslands, a new study shows.

California is what’s known as a biodiversity hotspot because of the large amount of endemic natural life found here, especially plants. Endemic means these plants can only be found here and nowhere ...

Last August, I hiked one of the most popular trails in our area, Shrine Ridge. I was in it for the views, but more than that, I was eager to see the thing everyone was talking about: the wildflowers.

An ecologically realistic 24-year field study of grasslands showed that elevated levels of carbon dioxide nearly tripled species losses attributed to nitrogen pollution. Dozens of studies have ...