Contemporary temperate forest ecosystems are fragmented and set within matrices of surrounding landscapes with various land uses, generating forest-edge habitats with distinct conditions that influence forest organisms and their interactions. Seed-dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) is a prominent interaction for temperate forest understory plants. Here, we examine the effects of forest edges in common surrounding landscapes in e...

Main conclusion By combining hyperspectral signatures of peanut and soybean, we predicted V cmax and J max with 70 and 50% accuracy. The PLS was the model that better predicted these photosynthetic parameters. Abstract One proposed key strategy for increasing potential crop stability and yield centers on exploitation of genotypic variability in photosynthetic capacity through precise high-throughput phenotyping techniques. Pho...

It is often expected that temperate plants have expanded their geographical ranges northward from primarily southern refugia. Evidence for this hypothesis is mixed in eastern North American species, and there is increasing support for colonization from middle latitudes. We studied genome‐wide patterns of variation in RADseq loci to test hypotheses concerning range expansion in a North American forest herb ( Campanula americana...

Gridded temperature datasets covering the UK at 5 km × 5 km resolution have been analysed for temporal and spatial patterns of change and variability. Decadal‐scale variability is visualized by smoothing the data series using a kernel smoother. Trends have been analysed by comparing averages for a baseline period with averages for a recent period, as well as using linear regression. Spatial patterns of change have been mapped...