One of the most fundamental goals in ecology -- determining the community assembly processes that have structured local communities -- has been increasingly studied through the analysis of functional ...

VTwins workflow. By selecting paired samples of different phenotypes but matched taxonomical profile, a new "twin" cohort is reconstructed from the original group cohort. In this way, VTwins can ...

1. The understanding of large-scale patterns in expanding populations of alien invasive plants can be used to infer the environmental limiting factors, habitat heterogeneity and, ultimately, the range ...

Phinney collecting her soil cores in a high burn intensity region of the 2020 Mangum Fire, Grand Canyon North Rim, Arizona. Pittsburgh, Pa., USA: On 8 June 2020, the Mangum Fire ignited 16 miles north ...

Premise of the Study: The monilophytes (ferns and relatives)—the third largest group of land plants—exhibit a diverse array of vegetative and reproductive morphologies. Investigations into their early ...