Mitigating buffelgrass invasion through simulated targeted grazing: understanding restoration potential in a variable precipitation regime

AC Rhodes, RM Plowes, LE Gilbert - Restoration Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The potential for targeted grazing for restoration through the removal of invasive species
represents an effective tool for practitioners. This study examines the impact of targeted …

The role of climatic similarity and bridgehead effects in two centuries of trade‐driven global ant invasions

P Mwebaze, AM Liebhold… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
International trade continues to drive biological invasions. We investigate the drivers of
global nonnative ant establishments over the last two centuries using a Cox proportional …

[PDF][PDF] Linear scaling–negative effects of invasive Spiraea tomentosa (Rosaceae) on wetland plants and pollinator communities

B Wiatrowska, P Kurek, D Moroń, W Celary… - …, 2023 - neobiota.pensoft.net
Invasive plants directly and indirectly disrupt the ecosystem functioning, of which indirect
effects, for example, through trophic cascades, are particularly difficult to predict. It is …

Importance of greater interdisciplinarity and geographic scope when tackling the driving forces behind biological invasions

PE Hulme - Conservation Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive non‐native species are important drivers of ecosystem change, yet the driving
forces of biological invasions themselves are poorly understood. Such information is …

Emerging advances in biosecurity to underpin human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health.

PE Hulme, JR Beggs, RN Binny, JP Bray, N Cogger… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
One Biosecurity is an interdisciplinary approach to policy and research that builds on the
interconnections between human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health to effectively prevent …

Predicting ecological impacts of the invasive brush-clawed shore crab under environmental change

N Theurich, E Briski, RN Cuthbert - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Globally, the number of invasive non-indigenous species is continually rising, representing a
major driver of biodiversity declines and a growing socio-economic burden. Hemigrapsus …

Systematic reduction of natural enemies and competition across variable precipitation approximates buffelgrass invasiveness (Cenchrus ciliaris) in its native range

AC Rhodes, RM Plowes, EA Bowman… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive grasses cause devastating losses to biodiversity and ecosystem function directly
and indirectly by altering ecosystem processes. Escape from natural enemies, plant–plant …

Assisted colonization risk assessment

A Ricciardi, D Simberloff - Science, 2021 - science.org
In their Policy Forum “Global policy for assisted colonization of species”(30 April, p. 456), JF
Brodie and colleagues fail to acknowledge the difficulties in predicting the impacts of …

Little clams with big potential: nutrient release by invasive Corbicula fluminea can exceed co-occurring freshwater mussel (Unionidae) assemblages

GW Hopper, JK Buchanan, I Sánchez González… - Biological …, 2022 - Springer
Animal-mediated nutrient cycling research tends to emphasize either native or invasive
fauna, yet communities comprising both groups are common, and biogeochemical control …

Sustainable Management of Medicago sativa for Future Climates: Insect Pests, Endophytes and Multitrophic Interactions in a Complex Environment

MR McNeill, X Tu, E Altermann, W Beilei… - Frontiers in Agronomy, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Medicago sativa L.(alfalfa, syn. lucerne) is an important forage crop for livestock, which is
subject to attack from a range of insect pests and susceptible to diseases that can reduce …