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What makes plant communities tick?

What makes diverse plant communities like New Zealand's iconic grasslands tick? What allows so many competing species to co-exist? A team of UC scientists and collaborators overseas are hoping to find out. To do so, UC Associate Professor Daniel Stouffer says they need to go back to basics. "We want to change the way people understand how plants compete and how we measure what happens - the models and approaches we've been using haven't really changed for at least 100 years." Long-term, the team hopes their work will lead to better management and protection of our ecosystems. "If we want to manage these sorts of ecosystems and avoid their utter collapse, we need to understand the very basic things, and the strategies they're using to solve these problems are usually the best place to start." http://www.biol.canterbury.ac.nz/