Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study led by researchers at the University of Göttingen explores the factors shaping plant distributions and how these patterns have ...

Botanical taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying plant species, remains indispensable for understanding biodiversity and informing conservation strategies. Recent advances have refined both ...

Why are there more plant species in some places than in others? Why is diversity highest in the tropics? What is the connection between biodiversity and environmental conditions? To help answer these ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Global Inventory of Floras and Traits, or GIFT 1.0, is the first database of its kind, bringing together thousands of published and unpublished ...

IN the course of work on the geography of the Angiosperms, I have been impressed by the absence of any satisfactory theoretical explanation of the more general features in the distribution of these ...

P. Hunziker et al., Herbivore feeding preference corroborates optimal defense theory for specialized metabolites within plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.118 ...

The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and Madagascar. Since 2006, every plant species ever documented in Africa and ...