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🔍 The review highlights key gaps: we need to better integrate floral chemistry, flowering timing, and pollinator sensory biology to understand how resilient these interactions are under climate warming. (8/8)

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🌸🌼Join us to learn about the newly published “Warming effects on floral volatile organic compounds and plant–pollinator interactions in tropical ecosystems” in @annbot.bsky.social by @ibrahim-salman.bsky.social and co-authors. 🧵1/8

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🔥 Fire-stimulated flowering appears to be an adaptive strategy that helps plants maximize reproductive success in fire-prone ecosystems. Fire may play a major role in shaping plant life-history evolution in Mediterranean habitats. (7/7)

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Fire-stimulated flowering enhances multiple plant fitness components

🌿Just published in @annbot.bsky.social : “Fire-stimulated flowering enhances multiple plant fitness components” by Julia Gegunde and co-authors. 🧵(1/7)

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Urbanization shapes evolution through both chance (drift, colonization history) and selection, and new species interactions can rapidly rewrite that evolutionary story. (9/9)

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Random and non-random variation in flower colour along an urban-rural gradient in the introduced mustard Hesperis matronalis

🌸🌼Join us to learn about the newly published “Random and non-random variation in flower colour along an urban-rural gradient in the introduced mustard Hesperis matronalis” in @annbot.bsky.social by Katherine Maunder @katiemaunder.bsky.social and co-authors. 🧵 (1/9)

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🌱 Take-home message: Far-red light, particularly during early growth stages, can promote lettuce biomass by improving canopy expansion and photosynthesis, without compromising nutritional quality. (10/10)

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Far-red light in early growth stages boosts lettuce biomass and preserves anthocyanins

🌿Just published in @annbot.bsky.social : “Far-red light in early growth stages boosts lettuce biomass and preserves anthocyanins” by Christopher Levine and co-authors. 🧵(1/10)

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Climate change may alter seed and seedling traits and shift germination and mortality patterns in alpine environments AbstractBackground and Aims. The early life-history stages of alpine plants are strongly influenced by climatic factors. Predicted changes in alpine climat

🌍 Alpine ecosystems are already climate-sensitive. If early life stages are compromised, long-term persistence of alpine species could be at risk.
Climate change doesn’t just affect adult plants, it reshapes the next generation. (9/9)

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Climate change may alter seed and seedling traits and shift germination and mortality patterns in alpine environments. Background image by Jerónimo Vázquez-Ramírez

🌿Check the newly published article “Climate change may alter seed and seedling traits and shift germination and mortality patterns in alpine environments” in @annbot by Jerónimo Vázquez-Ramírez @jeronimovazquez.bsky.social & Susanna Venn. 🧵 (1/9)

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Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning: Increased species diversity does not increase the productivity of cultivated kelp AbstractBackground and aims. Biodiversity is often assumed to underpin rates of ecosystem functioning and their associated ecosystem services. Manipulative

🌍However, multi-species assemblages may still enhance stability of biomass production, especially under future environmental change. (9/9)

👉 doi.org/qsqg

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Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning: Increased species diversity does not increase the productivity of cultivated kelp

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🌱Takeaway: Ecological isolation, limited dispersal, and life-history traits drive both speciation and extinction risk in Homoranthus. (9/9)

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Floral syndromes in Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) are associated with nectar- but not pollen-collecting pollinators AbstractBackground and Aims. Plant–pollinator interactions span a continuum from strict specialization to generalization and most flowers are visited by mo

🌸Takeaway: In Aquilegia, nectar-collecting pollinators appear to be the main evolutionary drivers of floral form, perhaps because they’re more efficient pollinators. (9/9)

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Floral syndromes in Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) are associated with nectar- but not pollen-collecting pollinators

🌸Just published in @annbot.bsky.social : “Floral syndromes in Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) are associated with nectar- but not pollen-collecting pollinators” by Anna-Sophie Hawranek and co-authors. 🧵(1/9)

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No evidence for the niche breadth – range size hypothesis in big plant genera AbstractBackground and Aims. Although almost 40% of the world's plant species are likely rare, little is known about the determinants of range size, a majo

🌍 The findings reinforce the importance of tropical mountain systems, including the Andes and Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, as global centres of range-restricted plant diversity and conservation priority. (9/9)
👉 doi.org/qnrq

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Acaulescent palms are resilient to disturbances: experimental and global evidence AbstractBackground and Aims. Natural or anthropogenic disturbances influence aerial biomass and drive distinct resilience strategies in plants. Resprouting

🌴Acaulescent palms are remarkably resilient. By investing belowground and resprouting after damage, they persist in disturbance-prone ecosystems, highlighting the importance of underground traits in plant resilience. (9/9)
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Acaulescent palms are resilient to disturbances: experimental and global evidence

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🌍 Foliar endophytes don’t just affect plants, they help engineer the soil environment, connecting above- and belowground processes in powerful ways. (9/9)

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High throughput design of defined microbial consortia for crop protection AbstractBackground. Synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) are changing the mechanism of crop protection which ensures global sustainability in agricult

🌍 Synthetic microbial communities offer a promising path toward more resilient and sustainable agriculture, bridging microbiology and ecology to restore balance and productivity in farming systems. (8/8)

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High throughput design of defined microbial consortia for crop protection

🦠🌱 Join us to learn about the newly published “High throughput design of defined microbial consortia for crop protection” in @annbot.bsky.social by Temitope Ruth Folorunso and co-authors. (1/10)

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Between wind and visitors? Insights into floral anatomy, taxonomy and reproductive biology in Cryptangieae (Cyperaceae)’Between wind and visitors? Insights into floral anatomy, taxonomy and reproductive biology in Cryptangieae (Cyperaceae)’Between wind and visitors? Insights into floral anatomy, taxonomy and reproductive biology in Cryptangieae (Cyperaceae)

🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Between wind and visitors? Insights into floral anatomy, taxonomy and reproductive biology in Cryptangieae (Cyperaceae)’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Ana Luisa Arantes Chaves and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/8)

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The diversity of Ficus

🌿 Join us to learn about the newly published “The diversity of Ficus” in @annbot.bsky.social by Simon Segar and co-authors. (1/10)

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An insect trap adjusting to weather conditions: Nepenthes rafflesiana plants control the fluid level in their pitchers to maximize prey capture AbstractBackground and Aims. Many carnivorous plants rely on open fluid pools or droplets to trap and digest arthropod prey. Here, we investigate, for Nepe

🐜This ability explains how N. rafflesiana remains an efficient predator in exposed, weather-variable habitats. (8/8)

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An insect trap adjusting to weather conditions: Nepenthes rafflesiana plants control the fluid level in their pitchers to maximize prey capture

🌱Just published in @annbot.bsky.social : “An insect trap adjusting to weather conditions: Nepenthes rafflesiana plants control the fluid level in their pitchers to maximize prey capture” by Charlotte Andrew and co-authors🧵(1/8)

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Cerrado: biodiversity and ecosystem services under severe threat by misguided restoration

🌱Check the newly published article ‘Cerrado: biodiversity and ecosystem services under severe threat by misguided restoration’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Giselda Durigan 🧵(1/10)

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Ecological function of the ‘elephant trunk’ upper corolla in Pedicularis species AbstractBackground and Aims. The evolution of intricate floral structures is often a direct consequence of pollinator-mediated selection. In buzz-pollinate

🌼The “elephant trunk” of Pedicularis is not just decorative. It’s a pollen-dispensing mechanism shaped by pollinator-mediated selection. (9/9)

👉 doi.org/qf4q

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Ecological function of the ‘elephant trunk’ upper corolla in Pedicularis species

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Better out than in: faecal matrix inhibits establishment success after waterfowl endozoochory AbstractBackground and Aims. Many plant species undergo long-distance dispersal through migratory waterbirds. However, there is little information about th

These findings align with previous research showing faster germination after gut passage, and add new evidence that this can translate into real fitness benefits for plants. (10/10)

👉 doi.org/qfrv

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Better out than in: faecal matrix inhibits establishment success after waterfowl endozoochory

🌱Check the newly published article ‘Better out than in: faecal matrix inhibits establishment success after waterfowl endozoochory’ in @annbot.bsky.social by @iciarjimenez.bsky.social and co-authors🧵1/10

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