Salt pollution from road deicing salts threatens freshwater ecosystems and urban green infrastructure. New research on salt-tolerant plants like cattails highlights their potential role in ...

freshwater and marine ecosystems, and are common features of many green plant communities, including vascular plant assemblages, long thought to be resistant to consumer control. Although we know ...

Traditional biodiversity monitoring methods, such as direct observations and morphological classifications, often fall short ...

By understanding how plants tolerate and process salt, Rippy is one step closer to developing sustainable solutions for protecting freshwater ecosystems. While plants alone cannot solve our salt ...

One Southeast wetlands plant, the carnivorous Wherry's sweet ... Unfortunately, the Southeast's staggering variety of freshwater life forms and their habitat also make up one of the most imperiled ...

Unsung aquatic heroes Aquatic plants are often misunderstood as simple “lakeweeds” that get in the way of swimming, boating and other water recreation. This sentiment leads many shoreline owners ...

Freshwater ecosystems cover less than 1% of Earth's ... The loss of wetlands harms far more than just the animals and plants that live there, as it also limits our ability to fight climate change ...

An ecosystem is a natural environment in which animals, plants and organisms work to support life. This film explains the difference between biotic and abiotic, terrestrial, freshwater and ocean ...