"The really interesting question is how a leaf with a certain form produces a certain function." Blonder developed a mathematical model to predict the functions of leaves based on three properties of ...

Guest presenter David Fripp is a keen collector of plants. He loves their variety and hates the idea of being limited to just one thing, so he has multiple collections. How plants use foliage to ...

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Lidar remote sensing has shown high accuracy/precision for quantification of forest biophysical parameters needed for ecological management. Although the significant effect of Bidirectional Scattering ...

The botany student’s textbook leaf, in anatomical cross-section, is a sandwich with two thick fillings packaged between thin outer envelopes. The outer layers – upper and lower epidermis – are each ...

India, Dec. 13 -- A Delhi University (DU) study has found that the Capital's toxic air could be detrimental to plant life, reducing chlorophyll levels that are directly proportional to the amount of ...