Not exact matches
However, instead of consensus, a
new study by an interdisciplinary research team at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) of psychologists and plant biologists
found a wide range of different opinions among scientific experts about how to describe
invasive plant species, and how severe their effects on the environment are.
But a
new study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology and led by University of Pennsylvania doctoral candidate Bianca Charbonneau
finds that the
invasive plant does have one advantage over its native counterpart, Ammophila breviligulata, or American beach grass: the
invasive is better at preventing erosion of dunes during big storms.
Invasive earthworms in
New England's forests are absorbing toxic metal pollutants in potentially hazardous levels that may be contributing to a decline in birds, amphibians and mammals that feed on them, a Dartmouth - led
study finds.
Invasive plant species can be a source of valuable ecosystem functions where native coastal habitats such as salt marshes and oyster reefs have severely declined, a
new study by scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina - Wilmington
finds.
The shells of a large,
invasive snail in India can provide exceptionally fine grained records of past precipitation in the region, a
new study finds.
That's the cautionary tale from a
new study in the journal Parasites & Vectors, which
found that ticks in urban parks in Delaware dominated by an
invasive rose bush were nearly twice as likely to be infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, as compared to ticks from uninvaded forest fragments.
The shells of a large,
invasive snail in India can provide exceptionally fine grained records of past precipitation in the region, a
new study finds.