Have you noticed some curly, spiky, gray-green, alien-like plants resting in a shell, hanging from a ceiling, perched on ...

In a recent article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Qianshi Lin from the University of British Columbia in Canada and colleagues report finding a new lineage of ...

For centuries, humans have moved plants beyond their native habitats, but the global spread of economically useful plants has quietly shaped ecosystems in powerful ways. A sweeping international study ...

Naturalized alien plants are causing a worldwide decline in the uniqueness of regional floras, according to the results of a global research project. When alien plants integrate into an existing ...

Most home gardeners pottering around with trowel, plant cuttings and a bag of mulch behind the old homestead don’t think of themselves as “nature’s best and last hope.” Doug Tallamy, an entomologist ...

Introduced species have a bad rap. From American grey squirrels displacing European red ones, to Japanese knotweed displacing just about everything everywhere, their purported negative effects on ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

Led by the University of Sydney, a scientific team has analysed the nutritional content of Christmas Island flying foxes' diets and found that introduced plant species do not provide a balanced meal.

Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University Corey J. A. Bradshaw receives ...

Julie Coetzee receives funding from the National Research Foundation SARCHi and the Natural Resource Management Programme of the South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment.