Carrying capacity is the idea that a given ecological niche can only support so many of a species within its geographical area. The number of California sea lions in certain areas of their habitat is ...

Plants are usually thought of as static and inert, but nature is full of surprises. Some plants have evolved amazing behaviors that mimic those of animals, blurring the line between the plant and ...

In flowering plants, pollen-tube density and pollen-donor diversity should influence the likelihood of sexual selection in the arena of the recipient pistil. We propose high pollen-tube density as a ...

Plants do not suffer in silence. Instead, when thirsty or stressed, plants make “airborne sounds,” according to a study published today in Cell. Plants that need water or have recently had their stems ...

Few living things seem to have less in common than plants and animals, but that assumption is being increasingly challenged. Evolution, and the ways in which the kingdom of plants and the kingdom of ...