What do you make of this: ‘In the 18th century, not yet 30 years old, she became the first woman to travel around the world. Along the way she helped collect thousands of plant specimens, some of which were new species. And she did it all dressed as a man’? Sounds incredible, I know but [...]

Clonal plants are a common feature of heavily grazed ecosystems where large herbivores inflict simultaneous pressures of trampling and defoliation. Xu et al. examine the effects of physiological integration (resource sharing between interconnected ramets of the same clone) on responses in the root-suckering clonal tree Populus simonii. They find that although clonal connection does not [...]