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Dr. Skip Walker, a plant ecologist at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado in Boulder, said the study was «the first real evidence that this kind of movement may occur,» adding, «People have been suspecting it's been happening without being able to show it.»

«There's not a simple story,» John Silander, a plant ecologist at the University of Connecticut, said.

The problem is that plants with good possibilities often have the same traits that make then potentially invasive species, said Lauren Quinn, an invasive plant ecologist at the University of Illinois» Energy Biosciences Institute.

The government is counting its chickens before they are hatched, says Fernando Valladares, a plant ecologist at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid who is president of the Spanish Association for Terrestrial Ecology and who, with other scientists, critically analyzed the draft strategy.

In fact, says Helliker, infrared imaging of trees has already shown that their leaves can be warmer than the surrounding air by several degrees, as was reported last year by Christian Körner, a plant ecologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland.

Instead of focusing on those edges of a species range, Jonathan Lenoir, a plant ecologist at the Paris Institute of Technology in France, and colleagues decided to examine what climate change was doing to optimum ranges — the zones where most of a population lived — for plants in the mountain forests of western France.

Georg Grabherr, a plant ecologist at the University of Vienna in Austria who specializes in alpine plants, hadn't expected the species to move so quickly over the decades.

That's a little worrisome, says Milena Holmgren, a plant ecologist at Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, who was not involved in the research.

Thomas Givnish, a plant ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, adds that the hypothesis could be strengthened by «exposing these plants to... emus or ostriches to demonstrate that these traits deter browsing by birds.»

Fernando Valladares, a plant ecologist at the CSIC National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid, who leads a 20 - strong team, expects that «at least half» of his staff «will go within a year, for sure.»

Phyllis Coley and husband Tom Kursar, plant ecologists at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, reasoned that if young plants have stronger chemical defenses, they might also be a good place to look for potential medicines.

Not exact matches

However, last August a team headed by plant ecologist Allison Snow at Ohio State University demonstrated that this same gene might produce some very tough weeds: She found that wild sunflowers crossed with Bt sunflowers produced offspring that suffered significantly less insect - related damage and produced 50 percent more seeds than control plants without the gene.

In other words, plants are at the base of nearly all food chains, or what ecologists call the first trophic level.

All of the benefits and drawbacks to gene drives are «just so hypothetical right now,» says Allison Snow, a plant population ecologist at Ohio State University.

But it is unclear how much residual radioactive contamination is still entering the sea from leaks around the Fukushima plant, says Scott Fowler, a marine ecologist at Stony Brook University in New York who has been involved in previous assessments of contamination levels in the ocean near Fukushima.

Nonetheless, Doak, an ecologist at the University of Colorado, dutifully identified, mapped and measured the plants, using the toothpicks to mark the location of the smallest ones.

Today, much of the abandoned farmland where second - generation bioenergy crops could grow is degraded and dominated by invasive plants, says Phil Robertson, an ecologist at Michigan State University's W. K. Kellogg Biological Station in Hickory Corners.

But the new study strongly supports the idea that plants play an important role in triggering the rainy season, says Scott Saleska, an ecologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who was not involved with the work.

Though it's not yet clear whether these trends hold for all plant eaters, that they exist at all means that ecologists need to keep them in mind as they figure out the dynamics of how ecosystems function.

Planting a large - scale seaweed farm would likely come up against stiff opposition from those who are not used to seaweed farms in their backyards, agreed Mike Graham, an ecologist specializing in seaweed at the California State University - associated Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

«These are direct pipelines from plant to plant, like a telephone wire,» says Suzanne Simard, a forest ecologist at the University of British Columbia who studies mycorrhizal networks.

This behavior is essential to the well - being of plants, as the journey through the gut seems to be a rite of passage necessary for some seeds to germinate, says Kevin Burns, an ecologist at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano studies the cognitive abilities of a variety of plants, including the humble pea in her lab at the University of Western Australia.

Monica Gagliano, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Western Australia, thought her experiment on associative learning in plants wasn't working.

But the latest study, by ecologists Peter Reich and Sarah Hobbie at the University of Minnesota in St Paul, suggests that estimates of how much CO2 land plants can use are far too optimistic.

The paper is «solid, exciting research,» says ecologist Chris Field of Carnegie Institution for Science in Palo Alto, California, who notes that various models have looked at ways different factors might affect future plant growth.

«Everybody expects to hear a disaster story when we say that,» said Daniel Potts, a plant physiological ecologist and associate professor of biology at Buffalo State.

«Alien plants often gain advantages in their new environment because they lack natural enemies, and in this case the lack of strong competitors amongst alpine plants may be the key to success for generalist native species,» says ecologist Ann Milbau, assistant professor at the research station Climate Impacts Research Centre in Abisko, Sweden.

This paper will likely be very influential, adds Lawren Sack, a plant physiologist and ecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, as paleobiologists can now better estimate photosynthesis for fossils from deep time.

Environmental scientist Suzanna Richter and plant physiological ecologist Brent Helliker, both at the University of Pennsylvania, measured the ratio of two isotopes of oxygen — rarer oxygen - 18 and more common oxygen - 16 — in samples of wood.

Like thousands of organisms that live off imperiled plants and animals, the sucking louse is missing from many endangered species lists — and that, says evolutionary ecologist Rob Colwell of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, is an unfortunate oversight.

«Ecologists generally assume that plants high in nitrogen will facilitate insect outbreaks,» says Fiona Clissold, a nutritional physiological ecologist at the University of Sydney in Australia.

«This is the first paper that really makes a link between lower plant quality and enhanced performance,» says Spencer Behmer, a physiological ecologist at Texas A&M University in College Station, who was not part of the study.

Human actions could also have created conditions that favoured domesticated plants over their wild brethren, says Mark Bush, an ecologist at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne.

But in opening the door to the plant's cultivation, far more scrutiny is needed as to how eucalyptus will behave when grown in bulk, said Doria Gordon, a senior ecologist at the Nature Conservancy.

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nate McDowell, a renowned forest ecologist and plant physiologist who coauthored a paper in the journal Nature Plants highlighting this research.

«The idea that changes in plant chemistry and therefore plant resistance may change the probability of cannibalism is very original,» says Andre Kessler, a chemical ecologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who did not participate in the study.

John Orrock, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, usually studies how animals behave when they're at risk of being attacked, but became intrigued by the ability plants have to also respond to threats.

The ecologist Dov Sax at Brown University in Rhode Island points out that non-native plants have doubled the botanical biodiversity of New Zealand — there are 2,104 native plants in the wild, and 2,065 non-native plants.

Along with a home - inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, we dig into the work of evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, who turns our brain - centered worldview on its head through a series of clever experiments that show plants doing things we never would've imagined.

But the latest study, by ecologists Peter Reich and Sarah Hobbie at the University of Minnesota in St Paul, suggests that estimates of how much CO2 land plants can use are far too optimistic.