Current status of biological control of introduced Phragmites in Canada: Insights from initial years of post-release monitoring and a larval density release experiment.

Introduced Phragmites (Phragmites australis australis (Cav.) Trin. Ex Steud.

Noise attenuation varies by interactions of land cover and season in an urban/peri-urban landscape.

Anthropogenic noise is increasing worldwide because of growing human populations, transportation, and resource extraction. This excessive noise negatively impacts humans and wildlife. To mitigate noise pollution, the use of vegetation in urban planning is becoming increasingly common.

Insect Defoliators in Recovering Industrial Landscapes: Effects of Landscape Degradation and Remediation Near an Abandoned Metal Smelter on Gypsy Moth (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) Feeding, Frass Production, and Frass Properties.

Although insect defoliators are recognized as major agents of ecological change in North American forests, their ecology in industrially degraded landscapes with poor-quality soils, metal contamination, and marginal vegetation growth is largely unknown. We fed gypsy moth larvae (Lymantria dispar L.) paper birch leaves (Betula papyrifera Marsh) (Fagales: Betulaceae) collected from four forested catchment areas near an abandoned Cu/Ni smelter in Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) with different histories of industrial degradation and remediation (reference, remediated, natural recovery, and degraded).