Four priority areas to advance invasion science in the face of rapid environmental change

A Ricciardi, JC Iacarella, DC Aldridge… - Environmental …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Unprecedented rates of introduction and spread of non-native species pose burgeoning
challenges to biodiversity, natural resource management, regional economies, and human …

Anthropogenic global shifts in biospheric N and P concentrations and ratios and their impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem productivity, food security, and human health

J Penuelas, IA Janssens, P Ciais… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The availability of carbon (C) from high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and
anthropogenic release of nitrogen (N) is increasing, but these increases are not paralleled …

Alien versus native species as drivers of recent extinctions

TM Blackburn, C Bellard… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Native plants and animals can rapidly become superabundant and dominate ecosystems,
leading to claims that native species are no less likely than alien species to cause …

Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

WS Harpole, LL Sullivan, EM Lind, J Firn, PB Adler… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Niche dimensionality provides a general theoretical explanation for biodiversity—more
niches, defined by more limiting factors, allow for more ways that species can coexist …

Do invasive alien plants benefit more from global environmental change than native plants?

Y Liu, AMO Oduor, Z Zhang, A Manea… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive alien plant species threaten native biodiversity, disrupt ecosystem functions and
can cause large economic damage. Plant invasions have been predicted to further increase …

Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide

PM Tognetti, SM Prober, S Báez… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment is driving global biodiversity decline and modifying
ecosystem functions. Theory suggests that plant functional types that fix atmospheric …

Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time

EW Seabloom, PB Adler, J Alberti, L Biederman… - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities are enriching many of Earth's ecosystems with biologically limiting mineral
nutrients such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). In grasslands, this enrichment generally …

Recent advances and future research in ecological stoichiometry

J Sardans, IA Janssens, P Ciais, M Obersteiner… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Studies on ecological stoichiometry (ES) have increased rapidly in number in recent years.
Continuous exploration of classical concepts such as the growth-rate hypothesis (GRH),) …

Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity

JN Price, J Sitters, T Ohlert, PM Tognetti… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Ecological models predict that the effects of mammalian herbivore exclusion on plant
diversity depend on resource availability and plant exposure to ungulate grazing over …

Functional traits explain the consistent resistance of biodiversity to plant invasion under nitrogen enrichment

S Li, P Jia, S Fan, Y Wu, X Liu, Y Meng, Y Li… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Elton's biotic resistance hypothesis, which posits that diverse communities should be more
resistant to biological invasions, has received considerable experimental support. However …