Peafowl are relatively large birds characterized by extremely colorful plumage. The male peafowl, the peacock, is known for expanding his tail in an intimidating display, while the female peafowl, the peahen, tends to be more subtly colored....
What animals are native to Jamaica? What was the most dominant species ever? What are some invasive species in California? What is the species name for humans? What birds are endangered species? What endangered species have they successfully cloned?
Gleditsch JM, Carlo TA (2011) Fruit quantity of invasive shrubs predicts the abundance of common native avian frugivores in central Pennsylvania. Divers Distrib 17(2):244–253 Article Google Scholar Green R, Catterall C, Jones D (1989) Foraging and other behaviors of birds in subtropical and ...
Understanding the process of genetic adaptation in response to human-mediated ecological change will help elucidate the eco-evolutionary impacts of human activity. In the 1930s red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) were accidently introduced to the Southeastern USA, where today they are both ven...
A lovely annual, Common or Spotted Jewelweed,Impatiens capensis,attracts birds, butterflies and bees. It blooms from June to Sept. Photo by Helen Lowe Metzman, USGS We will discuss which native plants may have originated in Maryland thousands of years ago and which ones travelled thousands of ...
We had relocated to Pennsylvania on faith in what I do as an artist to start a new life. We named our daughter Imani, which means faith with Arabic and Swahili origins in East Africa, as a testament to that move. This year Imani returned from Alaska, another faith move – there and ...
resources to pollinators and fruit to birds, while serving as space-defining hedging that responds well to shaping with a string trimmer. He calls such shrubs “plastic,” because their short internodes — the length of stem between nodes, or leaf attachments — make them well adapted to ...
In the landscape:Elders can be a little wild but overgrown plants can be cut back severely. Blue Elderberry can be used as a hedgerow, as a screen, or planted at the edge of a forest. It is most often grown for its edible berries and to attract birds. It is also valuable for revege...
Orchards are important to many peoples. It is said that abandoned Susquehanna Indian camps could always be identified by the old wild apple orchards in their vicinities in Pennsylvania, by the early explorers and settlers. Also, my Danish relatives prized their gardens with fruit trees, where the...
biodiversitybirdsLepidopteramanaged ecosystemsnative plantsnon‐native plantssuburban landscapeavesbiodiversidadecosistemas bajo manejoManaged landscapes in which non-native ornamental plants are favored over native vegetation now dominate the United States, particularly east of the Mississippi River. We measured ...