Some plants have a way of catching your eye and holding it, and barberry is easily one of them. These shrubs pack a punch with their rich color and the knack for thriving just about anywhere—be it in ...
Japanese barberry is an invasive shrub that harms the environment and human health (not to mention our animal companions). They have escaped our gardens and now outcompete native plants in our forests ...
It has nitrogen containing roots (giving them a yellow color) and spiny branches. Japanese barberry is a highly aggressive invasive species. It produces large amounts of seeds and has the ability to ...
For more than two decades, Pia Van de Venne of Murrysville has been working to rid the municipality’s parks of invasive plants including barberry, garlic mustard and Japanese stilt-grass.
A keystone in an arch's crown secures the other stones in place. Keystone species play the same role in many ecological communities by maintaining the structure and integrity of the community.
Nov. 4, 2024 — A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals ...
This is despite their ranges having shrunk ... Oct. 3, 2024 — The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in avian ...
Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...