Lists of host plants and caterpillar species used for ... species complexes are more common in the tropics than in the temperate zone, temperate taxa are likely to be better resolved taxonomically ...

with plant and animal species in tropical regions found in only a narrow range of temperatures and those in temperate zones tolerating a broad range of temperatures. Furthermore, climatic niches ...

Frost is an important factor limiting geographical distribution and agricultural productivity of plants. Temperate zone plants can adapt to low growth temperatures and thereby increase in freezing ...

Some plants common to both sides of the South Temperate Zone are apparently incapable of crossing even modest water gaps, but if they were in existence 150 million years ago, they probably did not ...

“I am now able to grow perennials that were once two temperate zones south of me,” wrote William Borucki, of Buffalo. Raynard Vinson, of Hampton, Va., wrote: “I overwinter plants that once ...

Yet, 90% of current knowledge on the functional diversity of plants concerns only agricultural ecosystems and temperate zones. By contrast, drylands (see inset), making up 45% of the Earth’s ...

look to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s recent update of its plant hardiness zone map, which has long helped gardeners and growers figure out which plants are most likely to thrive in a ...

Greg Redwood, head of glasshouses at Kew Gardens, said: “There are over 1,500 plants from across the globe’s temperate zones. In the Himalaya area, visitors can find a number of plants which ...