Invasive Species Articles

• Endangered Plants
  Botany
  Nature
  Pests and Parasites
  Seeds
  Rainforests
   
  

  Plant

  Plants are a major group of living things including familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, ferns, and mosses. About 350,000 species of plants, defined as seed plants, bryophytes, ferns and ... > more
• Forest
  Rainforests
  Exotic Species
  Tundra
  Geography
  Wildfires
   
  

  Taiga

  Taiga is a biome characterized by coniferous forests. Covering most of inland Alaska, Canada, Sweden, Finland, inland Norway, northern Kazakhstan and Russia (especially Siberia), as well as parts of ... > more
• Nature
  Ecology
  Ecology Research
  New Species
  Exotic Species
  Extinction
   
  

  Ecological niche

  In ecology, a niche is a term describing the relational position of a species or population in an ecosystem. More formally, the niche includes how a population responds to the abundance of its ... > more
• Geography
  Water
  Grassland
  Coral Reefs
  Environmental Policy
  Exotic Species
   
  

  Great Lakes

  The Great Lakes are a group of five large lakes on or near the United States-Canadian border. They are the largest group of fresh water lakes on the earth and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence system is ... > more
• Rainforests
  Ecology Research
  Forest
  Nature
  Environmental Science
  Ecology
   
  

  Deforestation

  Deforestation is the conversion of forested areas to non-forest land use such as arable land, urban use, logged area or wasteland. Historically, this meant conversion to grassland or to its ... > more
• Rainforests
  Trees
  Forest
  Wildfires
  Nature
  Sustainability
   
  

  Logging

  Logging is the process in which trees are felled (cut down) usually as part of a timber harvest. Timber is harvested to supply raw material for the wood products industry including logs for sawmills ... > more
• Insects (including Butterflies)
  Invasive Species
  Exotic Species
  Animals
  Soil Types
  Endangered Plants
   
  

  Japanese beetle

  The Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica) is a beetle about 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) long and 1 cm (0.4 inches) wide (smaller in Canada), with shiny copper-colored elytra and a shiny green top of the thorax ... > more
• Exotic Species
  Invasive Species
  Birds
  Geography
  New Species
  Nature
   
  

  Canada Goose

  The Canada Goose (Branta canadensis), colloquially Greater Canada or Canadian Goose in North America, belongs to the Branta genus of geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, ... > more
• Endangered Animals
  Extinction
  Endangered Plants
  Nature
  New Species
  Ecology
   
  

  Endangered species

  An endangered species is a population of an organism (usually a taxonomic species), which because it is either few in number or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters, leaving ... > more
• Trees
  Botany
  Forest
  Nature
  Exotic Species
  Invasive Species
   
  

  Tree

  A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. Though there is no set definition regarding minimum size, the term generally applies to plants at least 6 m (20 ft) high at maturity and, ... > more

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