Sentence examples for invasive worms from inspiring English sources

The transformed forests of Ms. Hale's childhood exemplify the long-term effects wrought by invasive worms.

But invasive worms eat away the leaf litter and change the chemical and biological properties of forest floors, to the point that some native plants can no longer live there, according to Ms. Hale and other experts.

Michael Gundale, who is now pursuing a doctorate at the University of Montana, wrote his master's thesis at Michigan Technological University about invasive worms' effects on the rare goblin fern in northern hardwood forests.

Ratios of the carbon and nitrogen isotopes in the invasive worms' tissues indicate that the creatures which consume soil to extract some of its organic material are tapping into resources unused by native worms, possibly explaining their success, the researchers report today in Biology Letters.

Northern hardwood forests are especially negatively impacted by invasive worms through the loss of leaf duff, soil fertility, changes in soil chemistry and the loss of ecological diversity.

Earthworms migrate only a limited distance annually on their own, and the spread of invasive worms is increased rapidly by anglers and from worms or their cocoons in the dirt on vehicle tires or footwear.

Molecular analyses were conducted with the sandwich hybridization assay (SHA), which employed 18S ribosomal RNA oligonucleotide probes designed to detect calanoid and podoplean copepods, and the larvae of barnacles, mussels, polychaete worms, brachyuran crabs, and invasive green crabs (Carcinus maenas).

This was indicated by the significant reduction in the total worm burden of the invasive stage by 91.6% and 76.8% and the immature stage by 82.7% and 96.7% for MFS-LNC-CTAB+ and MFS-LNC-OA, respectively.

Worms are transparent, allowing non-invasive observation and reliable measurements of the size of different internal structures such as testis, ovary and seminal vesicle [ 40, 41].

Could the worms suddenly turn hostile and become an invasive species?

But if the worms remain unchecked until their death, costly and invasive brain surgery is the only way to remove their remnants.