The role of herbivores in controlling plant species richness is a critical issue in the
conservation and management of grassland biodiversity. Numerous field experiments in …

Introduced plant populations lose interactions with enemies, mutualists and competitors from
their native ranges, and gain interactions with new species, under new abiotic conditions …

Ecological succession and the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes are
two major themes within microbial ecology, but these conceptual domains have mostly …

A detailed account of the biology and ecology of vascular wetland plants and their
applications in wetland plant science, Wetland Plants: Biology and Ecology presents a …

Vegetated coastal ecosystems, including tidal marshes, mangroves and seagrass meadows,
are being increasingly assessed in terms of their potential for carbon dioxide sequestration …

Plants are attacked by many different consumers. A critical question is how often, and under
what conditions, common reductions in growth, fecundity or even survival that occur due to …

The mechanisms underlying community assembly and promoting temporal succession are
often overlooked in microbial ecology. Here, we studied an undisturbed salt marsh …

Chronosequence and permanent plot studies are the two most common methods for
evaluating successional dynamics in plant communities. We combined these two …

Complexity theory predicts that local feedback processes may strongly affect the
organization of ecosystems on larger spatial scales. Whether complexity leads to increased …

Internal differences between plant organs are caused by the functional differentiation of
plant tissue, whereas external supply rates of elements constrain nutrient uptake. Previous …