Playing an essential foundational role in an ecosystem, plants contribute to the well-being of human health by helping create resources like food and medicine. Therefore, to better understand how ...

Picture a mature, broad-branched tree like an oak, maple or fig. How does it reproduce so that its offspring don’t grow up in its shadow, fighting for light? The answer is seed dispersal. Plants have ...

Researchers have developed a model that captures the dynamics of human dispersal across the continent during the last Ice Age in unprecedented detail. An interdisciplinary research team from the ...