Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on ...

On islands, many plants rely on animals such as birds, bats and reptiles to disperse their seeds and help them grow in new places. When native animals go extinct, this naturally reduces seed dispersal ...

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 ...

Most plants form symbiotic relationships in their roots with microscopic fungi. These partnerships are known as mycorrhizal symbiosis. Scientists have long known that the exchange of sugar for ...

Plants do not suffer in silence. Instead, when thirsty or stressed, plants make “airborne sounds”, according to a study published today in Cell 1. Plants that need water or have recently had their ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For Noah Teller, precision is a passion, especially when he's trying to learn how to make things grow. As Ecological and Restoration Coordinator at San Francisco's Presidio, ...

May 24 (UPI) --Animals self-medicate with plants − behavior people have observed and emulated for millennia A goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany. O. Dapper, CC BY Adrienne ...

There are just some things that insert themselves where they are unwanted, and when plants and animals insert themselves into areas they aren't supposed to be in it can damage an ecosystem. Tennessee ...