Category: Native Plants
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The More The Merrier: Native plant diversity increases herbivory to non-natives
Diverse plant communities are more likely to contain herbivores that are able to consume a non-native species, which may help to explain why diverse communities are able to resist invaders while others are easily dominated.
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Walden Pond trees leafing out far earlier than in Thoreau’s time
By comparing historical observations with current experiments, we see that climate change is creating a whole new risk for the native plants in Concord
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Native Plants Adapt To Invasives And Hold Their Own
Taken together, the findings suggest that the native and invasive species could reach equilibrium over a long period of time.
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Nursery Industry Takes On Challenge Of Invasive Plants
The nature of the nursery industry fosters the potential for nonnative species to become invasive.
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Can viruses protect orchid species against climate change?
The work will open the floodgates on new virus discoveries in our region, with the techniques developed being applicable to a wide range of other biological systems worldwide
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Native Plants Reported To Stop Spread Of Invasive Weed
Nature can have its own solutions to offer against invasive plant species. In the case of the weed cogongrass, woody vegetation at the forest‘s edge may stop its progress.
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Invasive Species: Separating Innocent Guests From Voracious Party Crashers
When invasive species first show up, can we predict which ones are going to become major modifiers of ecosystems or harm other species?
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Invasive Plants A Boon To Bird Diversity
We wondered: Are we sometimes doing more harm than good when we eradicate plants that, despite being introduced recently, have formed positive relationships with native animals?
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Aliens Introduced Naturally Can Still Be Trouble
The effects of Cyclone Demonia are still being felt a quarter of a century after it ripped through landlocked Swaziland. … Its lasting legacy was the alien plant seeds that the winds carried.
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Maybe The Plant Doesn’t Want To Be Seen
The dried bracts on a rare woodland plant, Monotropsis odorata, might serve a similar purpose as the stripes on a tiger or the grey coloration of the wings of the peppered moth, namely to hide.