Category: Invasive Species

Researchers in the College of Natural Resources and Environment and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech are examining if a natural fungus that kills the tree-of-heaven could be spread to other trees-of-heaven by the spotted lanternfly.

As an embedded community ecologist and conservation biologist, Haldre Rogers has been researching the impact of the invasive brown tree snake on the limestone forests of Guam for 22 years.

J. Leighton Reid received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award to research the back-and-forth relationship between vegetation and animals in Ecuador.

A Virginia Tech team has introduced Bangladesh’s first biocontrol program to combat an invasive weed.

Dr. Jacob Barney joined Virginia Tech’s “Curious Conversations” to talk about invasive species, their impact on native species, and the challenges of managing them. Barney also highlighted practical steps people can take to prevent their spread.

Beneath the Central Appalachian Forest canopy lies a rich, biodiverse world of native plants helping to fill North America’s medicinal herb cabinet.

The Restoration Ecology Working Group, along with the Invasive Species Collaborative and the Virginia Tech StREAM Lab, provided key guidance when the town applied for a grant from the Virginia Environmental Endowment, said Carol Davis, sustainability manager for the Town of Blacksburg.

In a world where invasive species spell trouble in ecosystems across the world, one fish swims against the current, becoming both a problem and a tasty opportunity.

The Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost has awarded a new round of Phase I Planning and Development Destination Area 2.0 grants to transdisciplinary research teams working in focus areas where Virginia Tech is well positioned to have a heightened impact.

Abir Jain, a Ph.D. student in the College of Natural Resources and Environment and a grant recipient of the Invasive Species Collaborative, is conducting a community-wide study of seed dispersal of forest plants by animals.

Three scholars who will be joining Virginia Tech’s faculty ranks in the 2024-25 academic year via the Future Faculty Diversity Program have received Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowships. This highly competitive award will provide significant support to the scholars for up to two years while they continue their research at Virginia Tech.

New research demonstrates that Guam’s invasive brown treesnakes are killing birds whether they can eat them or not, suggesting that they are routinely tackling prey that are too large for them to swallow.