A floristic study documents all the plant species found within a specific geographical area. Some ambitious and large-scale floristic projects involve development of keys, detailed descriptions, and ...

In this lab, students play a board game designed to introduce the concepts of disturbance dynamics and succession in plant communities. Students explore the dynamics of an imaginary ecosystem through ...

Decades-old policies aimed at improving air quality may also be accelerating global climate change, warns a recent study ...

"We often refer to the world’s five 'Mediterranean Climate' regions: the Mediterranean Basin, South Africa, Chile’s central ...

The state that guards its beaches and vistas still struggles to keep housing tracts and farmland from plowing under its unique wilderness. Guy Wagner knows the value of a good fence. In the gated ...

To demonstrate this concept, a team of researchers from more than a dozen institutions amassed data from years of observations across grassland communities located in what's known as the California ...

“Hidden floristic diversity is likely to emerge as we embark on this new era of exploration and documentation of cliff ecosystems,” the researchers write. “The discovery of S. waiahuluensis ...

The team, made up of researchers from more than a dozen institutions, amassed data from years of observations across grassland communities located in what's known as the California Floristic Province.

Research at Mars analog sites in Utah and Nunavut focuses on lichen diversity, helping to predict lichen survival on Mars and aiding our understanding of these organisms both on Earth and potentially ...

The vision of a fully consolidated and ecologically integrated Table Mountain National Park stretching the entire length of ...

During the Mars 160—a set of twin missions to both Utah and Nunavut in 2016 and 2017—our team undertook a floristic survey of the lichen biodiversity present at each site. During simulated ...