As ancient communities shifted from foraging to farming, the forces driving this dramatic change weren’t always what many ...

Search our Species Guide by entering the first few characters of the species' name in the box below. You can search by English or scientific name and choose between either IOC or Clements as the ...

The premium pear, formerly known as PiqaBoo and rebranded as PIQA Red, is gearing up for the 2025 season in the Chinene market.

The modern cultivated strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) originates from interspecific hybridization between two octoploid wild species: F. virginiana and F. chiloensis. However, the differences in ...

Hyenas stage mock brawls, cats spin in circles chasing their tails, octopuses play push-and-pull with bottles, dogs bury ...

I am the Priority Leader of Trait Diversity and Function, the Science Priority studying plant and fungal traits, to aid conservation, increase resilience to global change, and explore potential uses ...

Here, we develop a model that predicts the width of thermal performance curves will be narrower in the presence of interspecific competitors, causing a species’ optimal breeding temperature to diverge ...

Plants are at the trophic base of terrestrial ecosystems, and the diversity of plant species in an ecosystem is a principle determinant of community structure. This may arise from diverse functional ...