Garden Large » The New Yorker http://www.gardenlarge.com Horticultural Design, Inc., Duncan Brine and the Brine Garden Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:48:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New York City: A Diverse Ecological Hot Spot? Rich in Nature? http://www.gardenlarge.com/2010/09/13/new-york-city-a-diverse-ecological-hot-spot-via-xrisfg/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-york-city-a-diverse-ecological-hot-spot-via-xrisfg http://www.gardenlarge.com/2010/09/13/new-york-city-a-diverse-ecological-hot-spot-via-xrisfg/#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:25:14 +0000 Duncan Brine http://landscapedesignweb.com/2010/09/13/new-york-city-a-diverse-ecological-hot-spot-via-xrisfg/

  • How Did New York City Become a Diverse Ecological Hot Spot? — New York Magazine – Annotated

     

    • Incredibly, scientists are starting to view New York as an ecological hot spot—more diverse and richer in nature than the suburbs and rural counties that surround it.

       

    • “People think of the rural as this pristine, untouched place, when it’s actually highly controlled and highly engineered space,” says Nette Compton, a senior project manager at the Parks Department. “The fact is urban areas are not as well controlled. They are messy. There is diversity.”

       

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    Excerpts of an abstract–In 1951, an Asian insect known as the hemlock woolly adelgid was discovered near a park in Richmond, Virginia, which contained imported evergreens.

     

    Describes how globalization and climate change affect the spread of invasive species.

     

    Bayer makes an artificial nicotine insecticide, Imidacloprid, which is injected into the soil and carried through a tree by the root system, killing the feeding bugs.

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