Small wetland birds may find nesting easier if you periodically set fire to the neighbourhood.
Tag - Phragmites australis
Alun Salt
Rising sea levels influence a battle to beat the shade in plants
Increasing salinity could free some shade-averse plants from the shadows of their neighbours.
Fi Gennu
7 Plants You’ll Be Seeing More Of As Model Species
What plants will be shaping botanical research in the future? Here are seven candidates.
Juniper Kiss
Wave forces decrease seedling establishment in tidal marshes
Waves lead to greater root biomass and stem flexibility, but lower stress resistance overall.
Erin Zimmerman
Expansive reed populations – alien invasion or disturbed wetlands?
In southern Africa a pattern of Phragmites spp. reed expansion has occurred in recent decades that has shown a similar trend to cryptic invasions reported in North and South America. A recent Editor’s Choice...
AoBPLANTS
Methane emissions from emergent aquatic macrophytes
Aquatic plants can function as conduits for methane from sediment to the air, and thus contribute to the global methane balance. In a recent Editor’s Choice article published in AoB PLANTS, Milberg et al. studied the...
Phragmites australis management in the United States: 40 years of methods and outcomes
Studies on invasive plant management are often short in duration, are limited in the methods tested, and lack an adequate description of plant communities that replace the invader following removal. In a recent review...
