Mentha australis is a low-growing herb that thrives on the riverbank and in other damp, boggy and/or shaded areas - hence why it is affectionately known as Native River Mint. How to grow Native River Mint needs
Poisonous South American cane toads have wreaked havoc here, especially with the snake population. That may be welcome news for nervous tourists (though you’re very unlikely to encounter the two deadliest species, the Taipans and the Brown) but it’s bad news for native species. ...
and urban centres may only be used to fulfil part of their ecological requirements (i.e., using urban areas for hunting, but more natural habitat for breeding or vice versa). Examples include Ospreys (Pandion haliae
appropriating small but vital parts of the land for their own exclusive use (waterholes and soaks in particular), and introducing sheep, rabbits and cattle, all three of which ate out previously fertile areas and degraded the ability of the land to carry the native animals that were vital to...
Invasive plants can affect regeneration of native plants by suppressing seed ger- mination and altering the ground layer so that seedling establishment and survival are reduced9–11. The alien C4 perennial grass Andropogon gayanus (gamba grass) is invading large areas of the tropical savanna ...
Interest- ingly, when calculated for plant hosts, niche overlaps did not mirror the pattern for bees, with values being generally greater. This sug- gests that plants had wider bee host ranges than vice versa, but non-equivalence of bee and plant taxa categories means this result needs to ...
Most Australian honeyeaters feed also on insects and are not limited to nectar [64], so they can persist in areas and through seasons when bees are absent. Pollinator abundance might also be influenced by the presence of other species of flowering plants. Coexistence of peas in a community ...
Alignment of deduced amino acid sequences of the α1 and α2 domains of bat MHC class I loci with human HLA-A for comparison. The shaded residues in the α1 domain correspond to a putative natural killer (NK) receptor-binding region. Other designations: d, cysteines in the α2 domains...
Poisonous South American cane toads have wreaked havoc here, especially with the snake population. That may be welcome news for nervous tourists (though you’re very unlikely to encounter the two deadliest species, the Taipans and the Brown) but it’s bad news for native species.Credit...
Poisonous South American cane toads have wreaked havoc here, especially with the snake population. That may be welcome news for nervous tourists (though you’re very unlikely to encounter the two deadliest species, the Taipans and the Brown) but it’s bad news for native species.Credit...