Also known as reeds or pencil reeds, bulrushes are considered a valuable part of a lake’s ecosystem. They grow in marshes and along shorelines of lakes and ponds up to eight feet deep and can rise ...

Aquatic weeds can be a problem for many area ponds, due to their excessive growth interfering with activities such as fishing, swimming and boating. While aquatic plants are beneficial for ponds, at ...

Chelsea L. Wood receives funding from the US National Science Foundation (OCE-1829509, DGE-1922004), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Sloan Research Fellowship), the Western Regional Aquaculture Center ...

Smartphone apps that identify plants from photographs can be as little as 4 per cent accurate, which could put people foraging for food at risk and also lead to endangered plants being mislabelled as ...