Plants are limited in their ability to choose their neighbours, but they are able to orchestrate
a wide spectrum of rational competitive behaviours that increase their prospects to prevail …

The robust self-cleaning of a lotus leaf is the most classic and powerful phenomenon in
nature, whose hybrid papillae and biological wax guarantee its functions. The stability of the …

The ideal reference for students of botany and horticulture, gardeners, and naturalists. The
diverse external shapes and structures that make up flowering plants can be bewildering …

Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a
major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial …

Trees forage for light through optimal leaf display. Effective leaf display is determined by
metamer traits (ie, the internode, petiole, and corresponding leaf), and thus these traits …

1. Plants recognize their kin and respond to growing with relatives with changes in functional
traits. Here, we integrate competition and evolutionary theory to evaluate these changes. 2 …

Plant light interception efficiency is a crucial determinant of carbon uptake by individual
plants and by vegetation. Our aim was to identify whole‐plant variables that summarize …

Abstract Background and Aims Theory for optimal allocation of foliar nitrogen (ONA) predicts
that both nitrogen concentration and photosynthetic capacity will scale linearly with …

The crown architectures of 11 Psychotria species native to Barro Colorado Island, Panama
were reconstructed from field measurements of leaf and branch geometry with the three …

Summary 1 Although shade tolerance is often assumed to be a fixed trait of species, recent
work has reported size‐related changes in the relative and absolute light requirements of …