This includes plant-plant interactions that determine the evolution of competitive traits; how plants sense and respond to pests, pathogens, or predators; their commensal and/or symbiotic associations with other organisms; and how they adapt to climate changes.
The aim of this collection is to shed light on the eco-evolutionary dynamics that govern natural plant populations and predict how these (a)biotic interactions of plant communities will respond to current and future global changes.
A non-exhaustive list of topics includes:
- Plant ecophysiology
- Plant environment interactions
- Population ecology
- Community ecology
- Ecosystem ecology
- Landscape ecology
- Evolutionary ecology
- Biodiversity and conservation
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