Sentences with phrase «of nonnative plants»
As on the other islands, the National Park Service has made great efforts to preserve and protect these island resources, including enforcement of marine protected areas, stabilization of cultural sites, rehabilitation of historic buildings, removal of nonnative plants and animals, recovery of island foxes, and reestablishment of bald eagles.
https://www.nps.gov/
Research published Dec. 1 in the online edition of the journal Ecology Letters suggests that the invasion of nonnative plants is strongly related to what type of mycorrhizal fungi are dominant in forest ecosystems.
Not exact matches
We tend to think of pollinating insects as our ecological friends, but in the wrong place nonnative bees can spell trouble instead by competing with native insects, promoting reproduction in nonnative plants and potentially spreading disease.
They are actively restoring the woodlands of the park, so especially in the Ramble area here it's been infested I guess with nonnative plant species and what the Central Park Conservancy folks are doing is removing the nonnative species and then bringing back and planting native herbs and native shrubs so they can sort of maintain a more natural system of woodlands.
SOLV's Green Team program brings experts into classrooms and puts tools into student hands, helping students and teachers restore local streams by collecting garbage, eradicating nonnative plant species, and planting thousands of trees, among other projects.
To help prevent the introduction of nonnative species the following items may not be brought to the park: pets; live or potted plants; soil; cut flowers; firewood or any untreated, unfinished wood (including hiking sticks); corrugated boxes; tools or equipment with attached soil; motorized vehicles; bicycles; and single - use plastic grocery bags.
9:37 am: The projector splashes images on the whiteboard as Price launches into a presentation on differentiating native / nonnative / invasive plant species (of 6,000 plants species in California, 1,800 are nonnative but only 200 are classified as invasive).