An international team of scientists has recently found that non-native species are expanding their ranges many orders of magnitude faster than native ones, in large part due to inadvertent human help. Even seemingly sedentary ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 19, 2024
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Invasive species such as kudzu, privet and garlic mustard can devastate ecosystems, and, until now, scientists had little reason to believe that native plants could mount a successful defense.
Evolution
Jun 28, 2012
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Destruction of the forests can be swift. Regrowth is much, much slower.
Environment
Oct 1, 2019
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Large-scale reforestation projects such as New Zealand's One Billion Trees programme are underway in many countries to help sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
Environment
Jun 17, 2020
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Invasive alien plants are plant species that grow in an environment outside their native habitat. If they successfully establish self-sustaining populations in these new environments—an event called "naturalization"—they ...
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2021
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A popular imported tree that became a neighborhood favorite in the 1990s now threatens to crowd out native trees in some Eastern forests.
Environment
Jun 28, 2019
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Once upon a time, it was thought that crop diseases affected only crops. New research shows, however, that a common wheat virus can spread and harm perennial native grasses.
Ecology
Jan 17, 2017
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The unprecedented bushfires that struck the east coast of Australia this summer killed an estimated one billion animals across millions of hectares.
Plants & Animals
Mar 20, 2020
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Nine new species of carnivorous land snails have been found in the remote forests of Papua New Guinea, a biodiversity hot spot. A new study describes the species, which are so small that all nine could fit together on a U.S. ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 9, 2024
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A team led by Smithsonian scientists in Panama exposed a key to understanding tropical tree diversity by studying how fungi interact with seeds that linger in the ground. Despite a smorgasbord of species available to choose ...
Ecology
Oct 2, 2017
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