Before flowering plants emerged, the gymnosperms, which have cone-like structures instead of flowers, dominated the plant ...

Spruces do not retain their needles for long, the needles are quite sharp, and the needles are not aromatic like those of ...

This past November, an Alaskan trucker drove a long bed carrying an 80-foot Sitka spruce to the West Lawn of the White House, ...

The researchers noted that 72 plant families were documented, with angiosperms making up the majority, followed by ...

Such specimens have generally been classed together as “Gymnosperms,” so that they have received little attention from palæobotanists. As I am undertaking an exhaustive study of the ...

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Kirsten K. Coe is a plant ecophysiologist, focusing on how environmental stress shapes plant performance and growth, and in turn how plant responses influence ecosystem level processes. She uses ...

When we think of climate change we often think of extreme events like flooding rains and large bushfires. But climate change can also have slower, more subtle impacts on our landscapes.