Relevant Research

Pollinators

Ramaswamy S. 2016. Reversing pollinator decline is key to feeding the future. National Institute of Food and Agriculture. United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2016/06/24/reversing-pollinator-decline-key-feeding-future.

Johnson, C. A., P. Dutt and J. M. Levine. 2022. Competition for pollinators destabilizes plant coexistence. Nature 607: 721-725. DOI:10.1038/s41586-022-04973-x.

Ulyshen, M. and S. Horn. 2023. Declines of bees and butterflies over 15 years in a forested landscape. Current Biology 33:1-5. DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.030.

Invasive Species

Crystal-Ornelas R., E. J. Hudgins, R. N. Cuthbert, P. J. Haubrock, J. Fantle-Lepczyk, E. Angulo, A. M. Kramer, L. Ballesteros-Mejia, B. Leroy, B. Leung, E. López-López, C. Diagne, F. Courchamp. 2021. Economic costs of biological invasions within North America. NeoBiota 67: 485–510. https://neobiota.pensoft.net/article/58038.

ROSA L. 2022. The five drivers of extinction: Invasive species. Defenders of Wildlife. https://defenders.org/blog/2022/12/five-drivers-of-extinction-invasive-species.

US Forest Services. n.d. Invasive plants. US Department of Agriculture.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/invasives/index.shtml.

Biodiversity

Carter A. and L. Rosa. 2023. 5 Threats to biodiversity and how we can counter them? Defenders of Wildlife. https://defenders.org/blog/2023/07/5-threats-biodiversity-and-how-we-can-counter-them.

Bellard, C., C. Bertelsmeier, P. Leadley, W. Thuiller and F. Courchamp. 2012. Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity. Ecology Letters 15: 365-377. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01736.x.

Native Plants

Shelef O., P. J. Weisberg and F. D. Provenza. 2017. The value of native plants and local production in an era of global agriculture. Frontiers in Plant Science: 8. DOI: org/10.3389/fpls.2017.02069.

Smallwood, N. L. and  E. M. Wood. 2023. The ecological role of native-plant landscaping in residential yards to birds during the nonbreeding period. Ecosphere. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4360.