Plant-Animal Interactions: Highlighting Effects of Plant Anatomy, Natural History, and Environmental Changes
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2025 | Viewed by 1580
Special Issue Editor
Interests: animal behavior; arthropod–plant interactions; behavioral ecology; plant–animal interactions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world has undergone rapid changes over the recent two hundred years, leading to the destruction and severe modification of natural environments, as well as an increase in Earth's temperature. In this context, biodiversity is facing significant threats. One of the main factors that produces and maintains diversity encompasses the complex and conditional interactions between plants and animals. Despite our progress in understanding these relationships, several aspects remain neglected, such as the importance of considering plant anatomy, morphology, and the natural history of related plants and animals.
This Special Issue of Plants invites contributions to explore how fundamental aspects of plant–animal interactions—such as plant anatomy and the natural history of plants and animals—shape the outcomes of these relationships. Additionally, environmental factors, including seasonality, play a significant role in modulating these interactions, and current climate change has affected them in noticeable ways. Therefore, this Special Issue is interested in both direct and isolated effects, as well as the more complex and integrated impacts, with regard to the outcomes of plant–animal interactions.
Prof. Dr. Kleber Del-Claro
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ecological interactions
- mutualism
- herbivory
- plant morphology
- plant defense
- plant-animal relationships
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