Morikawa’s research shows that the growth of the tiny aquatic plant may be enormously amplified by these even smaller organisms. The DHbRC has been established to create a biobank of duckweed ...

Those weevils aren't tossed into the river by accident: scientists hope that the insects and their larvae will munch their way through the green mat, which is made up of an unwanted, invasive South ...

Aquatic close aquaticWithin water. , freshwater plants placed in the sea, or a seaweed in a rock pool where the water evaporated in the Sun, would also lose water by osmosis. Animal cells also ...

Since 2015, we have provided watercraft inspection and decontamination services, aquatic plant surveys and management, and a ...

Animals and plants, like humans ... Saltwater fish swallow water for the opposite reason freshwater expel it. McGill states ...

The plant is steadily taking over freshwater bodies in the northern region of South Africa, suffocating aquatic life, including on the Crocodile River and the Hartbeespoort Dam it flows into.

A weevil species has been released into the Crocodile River in Hartbeespoort to control the spread of the common salvinia, an invasive alien aquatic plant. Common salvinia, native to South America, ...

an invasive alien aquatic plant that is a growing threat to South Africa’s freshwater ecosystems. On Monday Julie Coetzee, the deputy director of the Centre for Biological Control at Rhodes ...

another invasive alien aquatic plant native to South America that presents a substantial threat to South Africa’s freshwater ecosystems. Initially recorded at Hartbeespoort dam in 2011 ...