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Pansies have figured out how as a response to the dire drop in pollinator numbers, but self-pollination produces weaker plants.

New study reveals that as insect populations in Europe fall so some plants are turning to self-pollination.

<p>How do plants deal with mutations in their &quot;power stations&quot;? By exploiting randomness to create diversity, say researchers from Bergen and Colorado.</p>

<p>Epiphytes, plants such as orchids and mosses that grow in trees, draw nutrients from the air and create&nbsp;refuge&nbsp;for all sorts of other life forms. They are the foundation of forest canopy ecosystems, but they are facing threats from human and natural disturbances.</p>

Fungal networks interconnecting trees in a forest is a key factor that determines the nature of forests and their response to climate change. These networks have also been viewed as a means for trees to help their offspring and other tree-friends, according to the increasingly popular “mother-tree hypothesis”. An international group of researchers re-examined the evidence for and against this hypothesis in a new study.