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 …

▪ Abstract In the search to identify factors that make some plant species troublesome
invaders, many studies have compared various measures of native and alien invasive plant …

Natural flood plains are among the most biologically productive and diverse ecosystems on
earth. Globally, riverine flood plains cover> 2× 106 km2, however, they are among the most …

This book describes the underlying water conditions and geologies that support viable
riparia, illustrates the ecological characteristics of riparia, and discusses how riparia are …

Many environmental effects of dams are immediate and obvious. For example, dams
obstruct migration pathways for fish, and reservoirs trap waterborne sediment. Other …

A detailed account of the biology and ecology of vascular wetland plants and their
applications in wetland plant science, Wetland Plants: Biology and Ecology presents a …

Invasion ecology, the study of how organisms spread in habitats to which they are not native,
asks both about the invasiveness of species and the invasibility of habitats: Which species …

Increases in the abundance or density of woody plants in historically semiarid and arid
grassland ecosystems have important ecological, hydrological, and socioeconomic …

Of the 70 cases of classical biological control for the protection of nature found in our review,
there were fewer projects against insect targets (21) than against invasive plants (49), in …

Mean surface temperatures have increased globally by~ 0.7 C per century since 1900 and
0.16 C per decade since 1970 (Levinson and Fettig 2014). Most of this warming is believed …