A rare riverscour community along the Delaware River's New Jersey shoreline that supports numerous state-listed plant species was monitored three times between 1998 and 2020, revealing significant trends in richness abundance. Cover of nonnative invasive increased annually by 3.8% 3.7%, respectively, while 1.1% 1.3%. native stable; however, declined 0.42%. trees shrubs significantly nearly 6% a...

Human activities in terrestrial landscapes, such as agriculture or urban development, often result in stressors, which can subsequently alter wetland ecosystem properties and plant community development. A complication to our understanding of plant community responses to stressors is the variation in stressor impact across wetlands of different hydrogeomorphic (HGM) subclasses. HGM classificati...

Phalaris arundinacea L. (reed canary grass) is a widely occurring grass throughout the Northern Hemisphere. In North America, it thought to consist of introduced agricultural forms from Europe as well native populations. During survey in western Canada, we discovered two distinct ribotypes sequences internal transcribed spacer (ITS) nuclear ribosomal DNA: one full length (ITS-long) and with sev...

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) and reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea L.) were pretreated under ambient temperature and pressure with sulfuric acid and calcium hydroxide in separate experiments. Chemical loadings from 0 to 100g (kg DM)(-1) and durations of anaerobic storage from 0 to 180days were investigated by way of a central composite design at two moisture contents (40% or 60% w.b.)...

Reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea) is a widely distributed invasive species that dominates many natural areas and restoration sites. Cost-effective suppression and restoration strategies need to be developed for plant communities affected by this species. Pretreatments designed to disrupt rhizome apical dominance may augment herbicide performance by making reed canarygrass rhizomes more su...