In Louisiana, pesticides, habitat loss in the form of urban development, invasive insects, lack of maintaining leaf litter ...

Mammal and bird losses cut a plant’s ability to adapt to global climate change by 60 percent. Pictured: Cedar waxwing Andrew C via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 Half of all plant species rely on ...

With several students each summer and the director of community engagement Gail Heffner, Professor Dave Warners investigated the restoration of native plants and native habitats in urban areas that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Questions: The change in the frequencies of invasive higher plant species in different habitat types was investigated using Danish monitoring ...

Welcome to the first issue of the L.A. Times Plants newsletter, with a list of this month’s plant-related activities and upcoming events. But first, today’s lesson in Los Angeles’ changing landscapes ...

For over three years, Patrick Donnelly has visited the Silver Peak Range of Nevada nearly every month to check on Tiehm’s buckwheat—a small wildflower with yellow pom-poms extending above a leafy base ...

Barbara Chung turned her townhouse terrace into a habitat garden of California native plants. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Barbara Chung may have the tiniest habitat garden in Los Angeles — ...

The Thames estuary in southeast England—the tidal stretch of the river—once supported extensive saltmarshes, seagrass meadows ...

Barbara Chung may have the tiniest habitat garden in Los Angeles — some 200 mostly native plants in pots on her 7-by-20-foot townhouse terrace — and she’s happy to erase any doubts about whether patio ...