Plant Adaptations and Responses to Environmental Pressures
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All plants possess adaptations to cope with stresses imposed by the environment in which they exist.
This group of plant biologists examine the physiological and ecological mechanisms that plants use to cope with environmental stress and how these mechanisms translate to determine genetic, physiological, demographic and evolutionary processes at individual, population and community-wide scales.
Studies span both terrestrial and marine systems.
Research topics include: allometric relationships in plant growth form, the adaptive significance of resprouting, germination strategies and benefits of dispersal in space and time, thresholds for survival to varying light, temperature and energy environments, responses of individual species and community wide phenomena to changing CO2 levels and increasingly dry conditions associated with changing global climate.
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