Plant compensatory regrowth is an induced process that enhances plant tolerance to herbivory. Plant behavior against herbivores differs between species and depends on resource availability, thus making general predictions related to plant compensatory regrowth difficult. To understand how soil nutrients determine the degree of compensatory regrowth for different plant species, we selected sapli...

Pollution Based Study of Heavy Metals in Medicinal plants Aloe vera and Tamarix aphyllaHamid Iqbal, Baharullah Khattak, Sultan Ayaz, Ali Rehman, Muhammad Ishfaq, Naseer Abbas, Saqib Malik, Abdul Wahab, Imran, Saifullah Mehsud

ABSTR;ZCT. Stigmaphyllon hispidum, a new species of Malpighiaceae, is described from Bahia, Brazil, where it was collected in a remnant of coastal forest, a vegetation type called Mata Atlantica. Its floral structure and adaxial laminar vesture are most similar to those of S. gayanum, an endemic of the region of Rio de Janeiro. The dense axial vesture, composed of simple basifixed hairs mixed w...

The aerodynamic roughness length (z0m) is an important parameter that affects the momentum and energy exchange between the earth surface’s and the atmosphere. In this paper, the gradient wind speed data that were observed from May to October, 2014, at the Si Daoqiao station, which is located in an area of sparse Tamarix in the downstream region of the Heihe River Basin (HRB), are used to evalua...

Certain phenotypic traits of plants vary with latitude of origin. To understand if tannin concentration varies among populations of tamarisk (Tamarix spp.) according to a latitudinal gradient, an analytical method was adapted from an enological tannin assay. The tannin content (wet basis) of tamarisk foliage collected from 160 plants grown in a common garden ranged from 8.26 to 62.36 mg/g and w...