KEENE VALLEY, N.Y. Fat, red-speckled shoots of Japanese knotweed, like a forest of blood-spattered asparagus spears, emerge each April from a mound of dead canes to form a jungle of 10-foot-tall ...
Temperature plays the biggest role in where plants can grow. Warmer conditions allow more plants to survive in new places. Other factors like rainfall and soil also matter, but temperature has the ...
A lot of people think of plants as pretty to look at, but defenceless and passive as far as organisms go. However, the many alien species – or “monster plants” – around us show we should never ...
An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps ...
A new report presents major findings on the gravity of impacts from invasive alien species on our planet. A new report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) ...