CASIROZ Project on Chronic Ozone and Beech Trees. The Carbon Sink Strength of Beech in a Changing Environment: Experimental Risk Assessment of Mitigation by Chronic Ozone Impact.

Research within the section of Plant Ecology and Systematics explores the processes of plant evolution, the mechanisms that determine the distribution of plant populations in space and time and the nature of plant-plant and plant-environment interactions. We work both with fundamental research and with problems within conservation biology and environmental management. We use a wide range of descriptive and analytical techniques - from field studies and experiments to molecular methods, image analysis and chemical analysis.

Responses of Submersed Vascular Plant Communities to Environmental Change. Aqua Botanic is your source for finding everything you need to know to keep aquatic plants from some of the best known authorities.

The purpose of this website is to present the substance and to discuss briefly the implications of current research at the Unit of Comparative Plant Ecology at the University of Sheffield. Although we have preserved a sharp focus on recent developments and discoveries, the presentation also reflects our concern to place each project within the context established by our earlier research and through the many excellent contributions of fellow ecologists around the world.

Plant Ecology is a research department within the Evolutionary Biology Centre. Our research analyses the structure and dynamics of plant populations and communities. Plant population ecology, evolutionary ecology, ecophysiology, and vegetation dynamics are fields of research represented. Basic research dominates, but there are also applied projects seeking to determine the consequences of changes in land use, and other human-induced changes of the environment.

Vegetation exists at the ecosystem level. Our principal approach is to find explanations of statistically reliable patterns in vegetation in terms of the most important factors and processes operating at a site. This is a 'top-down' philosophy. Quantitative ecosystem dynamics relies on concepts of 'probability', 'disturbance', 'dynamics', 'gradients', 'succession' and the 'ecosystem'. It involves an interfacing of the dynamics of dominant and key species with water balance and nutrient cycling.

This site illustrates the study Vegetation ecology of the higher zones of the Serra da Estrela (Portugal), using over 50 high quality photographs.