Aquilaria sinensis (family Thymelaeaceae) is the principal source of Chinese agarwood. It is a vulnerable evergreen tree native to lowland forests in southern China. Its fruit matures during the ...

Scientists have discovered one of the earliest examples of a winged seed, gaining insight into the origin and early evolution of wind dispersal strategies in plants. Wind dispersal in plant seeds is a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Fruit-eating bats play an important role in maintaining forest health by being seed dispersers. For decades, researchers have explored ways to ...

A review led by the School of Biological Sciences at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has revealed that tiny ground-dwelling ...

A natural experiment created by an active volcano gives new insight into the long-term negative impacts of human colonization of tropical forest islands. A natural experiment created by an active ...

Oahu's ecosystems have been so affected by species extinctions and invasions that most of the seeds dispersed on the island belong to nonnative plants, and most of them are dispersed by nonnative ...