Manipulating the soil microbiome to increase soil health and plant fertility

JM Chaparro, AM Sheflin, DK Manter… - Biology and Fertility of …, 2012 - Springer
A variety of soil factors are known to increase nutrient availability and plant productivity. The
most influential might be the organisms comprising the soil microbial community of the …

Impact of wild boar (Sus scrofa) in its introduced and native range: a review

MN Barrios-Garcia, SA Ballari - Biological invasions, 2012 - Springer
Wild boar are now present on all continents except Antarctica and can greatly affect
community structure and ecosystem function. Their destructive feeding habits, primarily …

[HTML][HTML] Resource competition in plant invasions: emerging patterns and research needs

M Gioria, BA Osborne - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Invasions by alien plants provide a unique opportunity to examine competitive interactions
among plants. While resource competition has long been regarded as a major mechanism …

Community assembly theory as a framework for biological invasions

DE Pearson, YK Ortega, Ö Eren, JL Hierro - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2018 - cell.com
Biological invasions present a global problem underlain by an ecological paradox that
thwarts explanation: how do some exotic species, evolutionarily naïve to their new …

[图书][B] Landscape ecology in theory and practice

MG Turner, RH Gardner, RV O'neill, RV O'Neill - 2001 - Springer
They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

Species classification using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-acquired high spatial resolution imagery in a heterogeneous grassland

B Lu, Y He - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote …, 2017 - Elsevier
Investigating spatio-temporal variations of species composition in grassland is an essential
step in evaluating grassland health conditions, understanding the evolutionary processes of …

Naturalization of introduced plants: ecological drivers of biogeographical patterns

DM Richardson, P Pyšek - New Phytologist, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The literature on biological invasions is biased in favour of invasive species–those that
spread and often reach high abundance following introduction by humans. It is, however …

Founding events in species invasions: genetic variation, adaptive evolution, and the role of multiple introductions

KM Dlugosch, IM Parker - Molecular ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive species are predicted to suffer from reductions in genetic diversity during founding
events, reducing adaptive potential. Integrating evidence from two literature reviews and two …

Reducing redundancy in invasion ecology by integrating hypotheses into a single theoretical framework

JA Catford, R Jansson, C Nilsson - Diversity and distributions, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Invasion ecology includes many hypotheses. Empirical evidence suggests that most of
these can explain the success of some invaders to some degree in some circumstances. If …

Plant invasions: merging the concepts of species invasiveness and community invasibility

DM Richardson, P Pyšek - Progress in physical geography, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper considers key issues in plant invasion ecology, where findings published since
1990 have significantly improved our understanding of many aspects of invasions. The …