Category: Native Plants
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Cleansing With Fire May Invite Invasive Species
Fire is one of the best management tools that land managers have at their disposal so we can’t expect managers not to burn at all. Several rare native plant species thrive following controlled burning, which reduces dominant competitors. If we stop burning, those species may disappear. However, we need to be more cautious about when and where we use prescribed fire,
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Weaponizing A Native Fungus To Kill An Invasive Tree
What we are experiencing is the rapid expansion of the tree of heaven replacing our native species. This might be our shot at overcoming its expansion.
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Restoration Ecology: Are Natives The Only Answer Or Just The Answer We wish For?
Many ecosystems have been degraded or modified, and these are the sorts of systems you target for restoration. But when a system has been altered so much the original species might not be the best choice to bring it back to health.
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Birds Choose Backyards With Native Plants
When nonnative plants replace natives, entire food webs are disrupted by the loss of specialized plant-eating insects—the most important food for animals ranging from other insects and spiders to reptiles and amphibians to mammals and birds.
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What One Invasive Weed Can Do: Garlic Mustard vs. Indian Pipe
Mounting evidence for negative effects of invasive plant phytochemicals on native mycorrhizal associations outside the Alliaria study system suggests that parasitism disruption has the potential to foster consequences beyond the specific example described here.
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Are Alien Species A Big Picture Problem Or A Local Menace?
Rather than getting a picture of all the new species increasing and all the native species decreasing, which is the way that the story seems to get portrayed sometimes, we see that the date a plant species arrives in Britain doesn’t predict whether it will be increasing or decreasing.
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High School Students Rewilding Florida With Native Orchids
These kids are interested in the plants, they asked thoughtful, higher-level questions, they were meticulous about taking care of orchids, It was the most amazing unintended outcome I could’ve asked for.
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The Future Is Here: Non-Native Plants Already Dominate The Landscape
Ecologists typically think of invasive species as being introduced in one spot and gradually spreading out from there. But, we found that even species with only a handful of occurrences were distributed all across the U.S.,The future may already be here.
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Invasive Ant Species Spread Invasive Plant Species
An invasive ant species that has become increasingly abundant in eastern North America not only takes over yards and delivers a nasty sting, it’s helping the spread of an invasive plant species. The ants are very effective dispersers of invasive plant seeds and new research suggests that together they could wreak havoc on native ecosystems.
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‘Resistance is futile.’ The Inevitability Of Invasive Species
Invasive plants, they found, were more likely to have evolved in habitats with a great diversity of competing species. Darwin was right: Some plants have evolved to be fighters.