Plant and animal diversity generally increases with increasing environmental heterogeneity.
Here, we test whether this relationship also holds for bacterial communities in soil …

Invasive plants are a threat to natural ecosystems worldwide, with urban wetlands being
some of the most susceptible and highly modified environments of all. The tiger snake …

The impacts of invasive alien species are determined by their abundance, a relationship that
usually does not follow linear trends owing to the complexity of ecological interactions …

Fire is frequently used as a management tool to reduce the cover of weeds, to reduce the
amount of fuel available for future fires, and to create succession mosaics that may enhance …

Wetlands are particularly vulnerable to degradation in urban environments, partially due to
the introduction of non-native plants. Invasive weeds in wetlands can replace native plants …

Invasive grasses are among the worst threats to native biodiversity, but the mechanisms
causing negative effects are poorly understood. To investigate the impact of an invasive …

Background and aims Investments in restoring native vegetation must increasingly allow for
likely impacts of climate change, requiring re-evaluation of limits to ecological recovery and …

Invasion by exotic plant species has led to concerns of homogenization of biotic
communities. Where plant invasion occurs, heterogeneity in plant community composition …

Succession from fire-induced grassland to secondary shrubland vegetation is occurring in
parts of deforested dry eastern South Island, New Zealand, but little is known about how the …

Invasive non-native grasses can greatly alter habitat structure. Land managers use fire to
reduce invasive grass infestations, a strategy which is intended, at least in part, to reduce the …