Fundamental ecological research is both intrinsically interesting and provides the basic
knowledge required to answer applied questions of importance to the management of the …

Triffids were, admittedly, a bit weird—but that was, after all, just because they were novelties.
People had felt the same about novelties of other days—about kangaroos, giant lizards, …

1 Studies of morphological plasticity in clonal plants have analysed responses to habitat
quality in terms of spacer (stolon or rhizome internode) length and branching intensity. The …

Several recent studies demonstrate that yield of individual plants, and their allocation of
biomass between roots and shoots, can be profoundly affected by the pattern of supply of soil‐…

Natural habitats are patchy in quality. in clonal plants, resource-acquiring structures often
occupy sites that differ in quality. Clonal plants can display division of labour in resource-…

(1) The growth forms of genetically identical clones of the perennial herb Glechoma hederacea
were compared under three soil nutrient regimes: (i) all ramets were rooted in nutrient-…

• Aims The purpose of this Botanical Briefing is to stimulate reappraisal of root growth, root/shoot
partitioning, and analysis of other aspects of plant growth under heterogeneous …

1 Habitat heterogeneity is manifested as patches differing in quality at a variety of spatial
scales, durations or contrasts, but little is known about its effects on the capacity of plants to …

The scarcity of reliable long‐term phenological data has severely hindered the study of the
responses of species to climate change. Biological collections in herbaria and museums are …

National databases were interrogated to analyse and compare proportional alterations in the
distribution ranges of orchid species between two surveys in the UK (surveys completed in …