While decision-making can benefit from considering positive and negative outcomes of
change, over the past half-century, research on non-native species has focused …

Food biodiversity presents one of the most significant opportunities to enhance food and
nutrition security today. The lack of data on many plants, however, limits our understanding …

Background Angola suffered a long-lasting military conflict. Therefore, traditional knowledge
of plant usage is still an important part of cultural heritage, especially concerning the still …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Considerable medicinal plant research in Brazil has
focused on indigenous and mixed-race (caboclo and caiçara) communities, but relatively …

The negative effects of invasive alien species (IAS) are increasingly invoked to justify
widespread and usually top-down approaches for their management or eradication …

“The cardoon (Cynara cardunculus) has a far wider range: it now occurs in these latitudes
on both sides of the Cordillera, across the continent. I saw it in unfrequented spots in Chile …

Globally, a majority of people use plants as a primary source of healthcare and introduced
plants are increasingly discussed as medicine. Protecting this resource for human health …

Invasive alien trees impact the environment and human livelihoods. The human dimensions
of such invasions are less well understood than the ecological aspects, and this is hindering …

Across the globe, many invasive alien plants were purposefully introduced because of their
usefulness. These plants continue to provide multiple goods and services, such as fodder …

The interaction of people with the natural environment is ancient. Humans have great power
to transform the natural environment and to interfere with the food chain and the processes …