Foundational concept of ecology tested: Purple loosestrife altered life in nearby ponds
Saturday, June 23, 2012 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
How strong are the links in food webs? An experiment demonstrates that they're strong enough for a disturbance to propagate across four trophic levels and two ecosystems. The experiment demonstrates that invasive species such as purple loosestrife could have broad effects on surrounding plant and animal communities, many of them cryptic.