Dieback to domination: what have we learned in 45 years about the ecology of common reed?
Jasmine Packer (University of Adelaide) has written a blog post about the keystone coloniser of land and water Phragmites australis (common reed), which is the subject of the issue 105.4 Biological Flora of the British Isles article. Reed beds throughout the world have been supporting animal and human populations since the last ice age. These reed communities…