At low concentrations salts are relatively benign, but anthropogenic activities can drive
concentrations to levels that impact soil quality, microbial, plant, and animal life. Soil and …

Typha is an iconic wetland plant found worldwide. Hybridization and anthropogenic
disturbances have resulted in large increases in Typha abundance in wetland ecosystems …

Nutrient loads in fresh and coastal waters continue to lead to harmful algal blooms across
the globe. Historically, floodplains—low-lying areas adjacent to streams and rivers that …

Abstract In Laurentian Great Lakes coastal wetlands (GLCWs), dominant emergent invasive
plants are expanding their ranges and compromising the unique habitat and ecosystem …

Aim Biotic homogenization (BH), a reduction in the distinctness of species composition
between geographically separated ecological communities in a region, is an important but …

Species in the grass family (Poaceae) have caused some of the most damaging invasions in
natural ecosystems, but plants in this family are also among the most widely used by …

Since disservices and the finite nature of agriculture on drained peatlands are increasingly
recognised, land use options for wet or rewetted peatlands (paludiculture) are …

Plant invasions result in biodiversity losses and altered ecological functions, though
quantifying loss of multiple ecosystem functions presents a research challenge. Plant …

The vegetation of the 80.7 hectare Cowles Bog Wetland. Complex has been altered from its
historic mixed sedge-grass domination (Carex stricta, Calamagrostis canadensis) in lower …

The ecological impacts of invasive plants increase dramatically with time since invasion.
Targeting young populations for treatment is therefore an economically and ecologically …