During the time of the dinosaurs, Dawn Redwood grew widely across the northern hemisphere including North America but it was considered extinct for 20 million years before a small population was ...

Like all plants, the locally native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) varies slightly across its native range. A plant from one part of a plant's native range may not perform well in another part of ...

Recent University of Minnesota research suggests the origin of a plant species can help predict its reaction to added nutrients. A July 15 study found that adding nutrients to ecosystems makes exotic ...

Questions: Wildfire is a natural disturbance that shapes vegetation characteristics worldwide, while prescribed fire is increasingly used to modify vegetation composition and structure. Due to ...

For our third and final installment of the native plant/exotic plant discussion, it seems we need to get to the crux of the matter. You need to pick a plant to add to your garden, so do you plant a ...

An important goal in restoration is to increase the richness of native species while reducing exotic species. However, native species richness is often positively correlated with exotic species ...

When Typhoon “Glenda” roared through the Philippines last month, it left a trail of uprooted trees. We counted 138 of those uprooted trees at the University of the Philippines Diliman campus. The ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An exotic mammal native to Central and South America somehow ended up on the streets of the Pacific Northwest. On Sunday, June 23, a kinkajou — an animal in the same family as ...