Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that ...

99B, No. 1, The Ecology of Old Mine Sites (Sep., 1999), pp. 3-10 (8 pages) Vegetation can modify the local geochemistry of natural soils, but the effects of plants on artificial sediments, including ...

Endangered carnivorous plants are being reintroduced to parts ... great sundew is extinct in many areas, due to loss of wetlands. With tentacles that trap and digest insects, the plant is one ...

The research found that soils with more macropores facilitated easier water movement, which is especially beneficial for wetland environments. Lumeng Xie, principal author and a visiting Ph.D ...

The region's salamander mussel is the only mussel in the world that uses a salamander — the mudpuppy — instead of a fish to host its larvae. One Southeast wetlands plant, the carnivorous Wherry's ...