We identified emerging scientific, technological, and sociopolitical issues likely to affect how
biological invasions are studied and managed over the next two decades. Issues were …

Invasive plants affect soil biota through litter and rhizosphere inputs, but the direction and
magnitude of these effects are variable. We conducted a meta‐analysis to examine the …

Summary Plant–soil feedback (PSF), plant trait and functional group concepts advanced our
understanding of plant community dynamics, but how they are interlinked is poorly known …

Many anthropic activities generate soil disturbances, favoring competitive, fast growing
invasive plant species at the expense of natives. Active restoration of invasion-resistant plant …

Background Plants condition the soil in which they grow, thereby altering the performance of
subsequent plants growing in this soil. This phenomenon, known as plant-soil feedback …

Divergent hypotheses have been proposed that suggest plant invasions either enhance or
degrade the mutualism between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, but their …

From the establishment of the first biodiversity experiments in the 1990s, studies have
consistently reported positive relationships between plant diversity and productivity in …

Forest ecosystems world-wide are being subjected to invasion by organisms representing
all domains of life. Here we use a combined aboveground-belowground approach to …

Abstract Forests in eastern North America are experiencing high densities of white-tailed
deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and encroachment by invasive plants, both of which threaten …

Invasive plant species can modify soils in a way that benefits their fitness more than the
fitness of native species. However, it is unclear how competition among plant species alters …