Invasive plants have a multitude of impacts on plant communities through their direct and
indirect effects on soil chemistry and ecosystem function. For example, plants modify the soil …

Ecosystem restoration is gaining political and economic support worldwide, but its exact
targets and costs often remain unclear. A key issue, both for predicting restoration success …

Marginal agricultural land, which in the UK refers to upland grazings in particular, is going to
see changes in management driven by markets, subsidies, grants and environmental …

There is a clear need for the development of management strategies to control dominant,
perennial weeds and restore semi-natural communities and an important part of this is to …

Pteridium aquilinum is a problematic, perennial, invasive species worldwide that poses
serious problems in the British uplands. However, there is a lack of knowledge on long-term …

The neotropical bracken fern Pteridium arachnoideum (Kaulf.) Maxon.(Dennstaedtiaceae) is
described as an aggressive pioneer plant species. It invades abandoned or newly burned …

The search for appropriate management strategies to control invasive plants is an important
theme in environmental management. However, the recovery of the resident community …

Questions The coastal heathlands of northwest Europe are classified as highly endangered
and a habitat of high conservation importance throughout their geographic range. Previous …

Understanding how plant community dynamics are impacted by altered disturbance regimes
is a pressing challenge for restoration ecology. Most assessments of community dynamics …

In many parts of the Neotropics, deforested areas are often colonized by the highly
competitive invasive bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum), which inhabits naturally …