Restoration and preservation of coastal dunes is urgently needed because of the
increasingly rapid loss and degradation of these ecosystems because of many human …

Ecological restoration has a growing role in policy aimed at reversing the widespread effects
of environmental degradation. It includes activities to assist the recovery of ecosystem …

Most ecologists are not card-carrying members of either individualistic or interdependent
guilds, but our perception of plant community organization, and the way we conduct …

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 …

Recent efforts to clear invasive plants from the fynbos of South Africa forces managers to
think about how N2‐fixing invasives have altered ecosystem processes and the implications …

The widespread recognition that nonnative plants can have significant biological and
economic effects on the habitats they invade has led to a variety of strategies to remove …

Plant invasions have the potential to significantly alter soil microbial communities, given their
often considerable aboveground effects. We examined how plant invasions altered the …

The planting of sand‐binding vegetation in the Shapotou region at the southeastern edge of
the Tengger Desert began in 1956. Over the past 46 years, it has not only insured the …

Natural ecosystems globally are often subject to multiple human disturbances that are
difficult to restore. A restoration experiment was done in an urban fragment of native coastal …

An increasing number of invasive species are changing ecosystems around the world. Road
verges have commonly become the first footholds of non-native species in the new …