Fire as a management tool for invasive woody plants in natural environments: a systematic review

GIE Brancatelli, AL Yezzi, SM Zalba - Biological Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
Invasive woody plants can cause profound changes in receiving ecosystems, such as
alteration of hydrological and nutrient cycles, retraction of native flora and fauna, and …

Invasive non-native species in Brazil: an updated overview

RD Zenni, SR Ziller, CA da Rosa, RB Sühs… - Biological …, 2024 - Springer
Invasive non-native species (invasive species, henceforth) across all taxonomic groups are
spreading globally, with numbers projected to continue growing in the future. It is difficult for …

Benefits do not balance costs of biological invasions

L Carneiro, PE Hulme, RN Cuthbert, M Kourantidou… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Biological invasions have profound impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and
services, resulting in substantial economic and health costs estimated in the trillions of …

Assessing Alien Plant Invasions in Urban Environments: A Case Study of Tshwane University of Technology and Implications for Biodiversity Conservation

T Nelufule, TC Shivambu, N Shivambu… - Plants, 2024 - mdpi.com
Preserving the dwindling native biodiversity in urban settings poses escalating challenges
due to the confinement of remaining natural areas to isolated and diminutive patches …

 Field studies of the ecological impacts of invasive plants in Europe

M Vilà, A Trillo, P Castro-Díez, B Gallardo, S Bacher - 2024 - digital.csic.es
The impacts of invasive species can vary widely across invaded sites and depend on the
ecological variable of study. In this paper, we describe the first harmonised database that …

Non‐natives are linked to higher plant diversity across spatial scales

S Lefebvre, J Segar, IR Staude - Journal of biogeography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Although non‐native and invasive plants often pose a significant threat to biodiversity,
global‐scale studies have yet to conclusively demonstrate a systematic pattern of reduced …

[HTML][HTML] Alien plant species richness in urban protected biodiversity areas: a case study of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa

T Nelufule, TC Thenga, TC Shivambu, N Shivambu… - Diversity, 2024 - mdpi.com
Urban protected biodiversity areas conserve some of the world's critically endangered and
isolated biodiversity while providing essential ecosystem services. However, these urban …

Framing challenges and polarized issues in invasion science: toward an interdisciplinary agenda

S Guareschi, KL Mathers, J South, LM Navarro… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In a hyperconnected world, framing and managing biological invasions poses complex and
contentious challenges, affecting socioeconomic and environmental sectors. This complexity …

Including a diverse set of voices to address biological invasions

MA Nuñez, T August, S Bacher, BS Galil… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
Inclusivity is fundamental to progress in understanding and addressing the global
phenomena of biological invasions because inclusivity fosters a breadth of perspectives …

Patterns and drivers of alien plant invasion in Uruguayan grasslands

A Guido, A Altesor, V Cayssials… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Question Understanding the patterns of alien plant invasions and their underlying drivers is
a key step in conserving the remaining native grasslands of Uruguay. We addressed the …