Study shows how climate change can worsen impact of invasive plants
Synergy isn't always a good thing—take climate change and invasive plants.
Synergy isn't always a good thing—take climate change and invasive plants.
Ecology
Feb 10, 2022
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Recent news stories told of the Lummi Nation, west of Bellingham, describing a tiny, invasive crab—about 3 inches across the shell—as an "environmental disaster" and "one of the most destructive" aquatic creatures in ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 3, 2022
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a simulation predicting the spread of an invasive beetle species harming local flora. They tried models based on road lengths, river lengths and recorded cherry ...
Ecology
Dec 20, 2021
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United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and collaborators confirmed the presence of a newly described Eriophyid mite, a potential biological control agent for the invasive ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 1, 2021
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Watching paint dry has nothing on watching a forest grow.
Ecology
Sep 6, 2021
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Centuries-old umbrella-shaped dragon's blood trees line the rugged peaks of Yemen's Socotra—a flagship symbol of the Indian Ocean archipelago's extraordinary biodiversity, but also a bleak warning of environmental crisis.
Ecology
Jun 7, 2021
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A length of steel pipe and a heart monitor are the unlikely tools underpinning new research which suggests that trees may work together to form resource-sharing networks, helping the group collectively overcome environmental ...
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2021
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New research has revealed how an invasion of the evergreen tree Prosopis juliflora seriously diminishes water resources in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, consuming enough of this already scarce resource to irrigate cotton and ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 29, 2021
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Researchers at the Western Pacific Tropical Research Center at the University of Guam have documented what biologists call a "host shift" of the coconut rhinoceros beetle in Guam. The beetle, first documented as an invasive ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 16, 2020
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When humans bring a non-native herbivore to an isolated island, the native trees do not possess traits to craft an operative defense to the new threat, and the results can be devastating. A long-term study on cycads in Guam ...
Ecology
Aug 4, 2020
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