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Category: Invasive Species

Finding Japanese Chaff-flower: An Unwanted Addition To Our Flora

March 20, 2020–Guest blogger

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Invasive Species

Shoreline of Easter Island © James Kamstra

While strolling through the deciduous forest in September 2018, I looked down when a strange plant caught my eye. What was that? It looked much like Lopseed? Opposite leaves and ...

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Ontario’s Problem Pigs

August 1, 2017–Noah Cole

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Invasive Species•Wild Species

A drove of feral hogs in Texas © Josh Henderson CC BY 2.0

Wild boar sightings in Ontario have risen in recent years despite the animals’ tendency to travel at dawn, dusk and night. Some of these sightings have been made near Ottawa ...

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Recipe for a Successful Garlic Mustard Pull

October 29, 2015–Sepi Ghafouri

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Habitat•Invasive Species•Nature Reserves

Lost Bay garlic mustard pull

Friday October 23 marked Ontario Nature’s annual garlic mustard pull at our Lost Bay Nature Reserve near Gananoque. With the help of several Queen’s University students and volunteers from Willing ...

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Do Invasive Plants Impact Ecosystem Services?

July 31, 2015–Guest blogger

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Invasive Species•Stewardship and restoration

Dog-strangling vine © Noah Cole

In the Cadotte Lab at the University of Toronto – Scarborough, we examine the causes and consequences of invasion success, biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services in Toronto’s Rouge ...

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Stopping the invasion

July 8, 2015–Ontario Nature

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Invasive Species

Round goby © Matthew Forte via Ohio Sea Grant

Nearly two centuries ago, non-native aquatic species began their invasion of the Great Lakes, travelling within the ballast stones and ballast water of large ships.

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