Hipp traces Quercus’s mighty family tree back millions of years to its modest roots, when a single population ... a key to oaks’ success is their exceptional diversity, including their ...

merging to form an American root system fortified by its diversity. Along the way, viewers are transported from coastal Africa to the Mississippi Delta; from shtetls in the former Russian Empire ...

This diversity of species also reflects ... the fieldwork team collected leaves and roots to measure functional traits of the different tree species that should inform species resource-use strategies.