This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The establishment of non-native species and the increase in atmospheric CO₂, in combination, have the ability to alter current ecosystems.

Vol. 26, No. 2, Part B: Dedicated Issue: Phragmites australis: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing? (Apr., 2003), pp. 534-551 (18 pages) Since 1965 large areas of lower Connecticut River tidelands have been ...

Cattails, typha angustifolia (narrow leaf) or typha latifolia (broad leaf), have a distinct look at the edge of ponds and are wetland plants. The flower head is a spike and shaped like a long cylinder ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Two species of cattail reeds, the common cattail (Typha latifolia) and the narrow-leaved cattail (Typha angustifolia), were once common in the wetlands in and around Staten ...

They are not the well-known, dam-building beavers but can often be found in the same marshy ecosystems. Muskrats — which are ...

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With their surgical nibbles, these large, semi-aquatic, buck-toothed rodents have emerged as crucial helpers for ecologists restoring degraded wetlands across the Great Lakes. They are not the ...