A team of scientists has discovered that human-introduced, invasive species of plants can have positive ecological effects. Tomás Carlo, an assistant professor of biology at Penn State University, and ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 11, 2011 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

Like some bad science-fiction movie, Philippine fishermen are encountering strange alien creatures: tough, speckled fish with sharp spines that tear and rip their nets.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 09, 2011 not rated yet 0

The phrase "invasive plant species" typically evokes negative images such as broad swaths of kudzu smothered trees along the highway or purple loosestrife taking over wetlands and clogging waterways—and ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 08, 2011 3 / 5 (2) 0

Invasive plant species have long had a reputation as being bad for a new ecosystem when they are introduced.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 01, 2011 2 / 5 (1) 1

The leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella, still unknown three decades ago, has spread throughout the whole of central Europe. The insect made its way north, west and east by truck and rail. Fighting it seems impossible. ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 24, 2011 not rated yet 0

The threat Asian carp pose to the Great Lakes community may be politically controversial, but pales in comparison to the costs and danger of continuing to wring hands over established facts. It's time, a Michigan ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 30, 2011 not rated yet 2

Invasive plant species present a serious environmental, economic and social problem worldwide as their abundance can lead to lost native biodiversity and ecosystem functions, such as nutrient cycling. Despite ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 01, 2011 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—A landmark study has found that climate change is likely to have a major impact on Australia's plants, animals and ecosystems that will present significant challenges to the conservation of Australia's ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 18, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

To help decision makers mitigate the consequence of alien plant and animal invasion, an EU-wide database maintains a black list of these unwelcome biological invaders.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 28, 2013 3.7 / 5 (3) 1

A black, two-millimeter-long wasp from East Africa is helping wage war on one of its own kind—the Erythrina gall wasp, an invasive species that's decimated Hawaii's endemic wiliwili (Erythrina sandwicensis) and in ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 28, 2010 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A potentially important invasive insect species – the fruit fly Drosophila suzukii, or spotted wing Drosophila (SWD) – winged its way to North and South Carolina this summer. The insect has the ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 19, 2010 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- The Interior Department announced Friday that it won't list sage grouse as endangered or threatened but will classify the bird among species that are candidates for federal protection.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 05, 2010 not rated yet 0

The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) by scientists from the University of Notre Dame and The Nature Conservancy to detect invasive Asian carp in the Chicago-area waterway has been validated in Conservation Letters, a new ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 05, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

How should a country respond to a biological invader that reaches its shores via cargo shipped as international trade?

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 23, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 0

(AP) -- The Obama administration has developed a five-year blueprint for rescuing the Great Lakes, a sprawling ecosystem plagued by toxic contamination, shrinking wildlife habitat and invasive species.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 22, 2010 not rated yet 0