Restoring vegetation in degraded ecosystems is an increasingly common practice for
promoting biodiversity and ecological function, but successful implementation is hampered …

Invasive plants can significantly impact the diversity of understory ground flora and forest
regeneration in eastern North America. However, managing invasive plants has resulted in …

Plant-herbivore interaction is one of the most common and important interspecific
relationships in nature, which is the core and foundation of the food web theory. In this …

Most research on dynamics and impacts of plant invasions has evaluated patterns and
effects over brief time periods (ie< 4 years). As such, little is known about the persistence of …

Invasive plants are widely spread throughout the forests of the southern United States (US)
and are expected to rapidly increase their distributional ranges over the next few decades …

While invasive plant distributions are relatively well known in the eastern United States,
temporal changes in species distributions and interactions among species have received …

Binary data are popular in ecological and environmental studies; however, due to various
uncertainties and complexities present in data sets, the standard generalized linear model …

While many ecosystems depend on fire to maintain biodiversity, non‐native plant invasions
can enhance fire intensity, suppressing native species and generating a fire–invasion …

Reduction of forest regeneration due to overbrowsing by white-tailed deer is a growing
concern for land managers. Abundant deer can impede forest regeneration through direct …

Herbs may affect the recruitment of woody species. However, most studies have evaluated
the impact of one particular herb species or the herbaceous layer as a whole. It is less …