Ecologists: Screen Plant Imports to Foil Invasives

A new analysis suggests that climate change in the U.S. will boost demand for imported drought- and heat-tolerant landscape plants from Africa and the Middle East, greatly increasing the risk that a new wave of invasives will overrun native ecosystems in the way kudzu and purple loosestrife have.

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