Plants can produce and release allelochemicals to interfere with the establishment and
growth of conspecific and interspecific plants. Such allelopathy is an important mediator …

During the past 100 years, studies spanning thousands of taxa across almost all biomes
have demonstrated that competition has powerful negative effects on the performance of …

Foundation species define ecosystems, control the biological diversity of associated
species, modulate critical ecosystem processes, and often have important cultural values …

Invasive species cause ecological, economic and social impacts and are key drivers of
global change. This is the case for the genus Prosopis (mesquite; Fabaceae) where several …

Soil is one of the most important assets of the planet Earth, responsible for maintaining the
biodiversity and managing the ecosystem services for both managed and natural …

The savannahs of Asia remain locally unrecognized as distinctive ecosystems, and continue
to be viewed as degraded forests or seasonally dry tropical forests. These colonial-era …

Green grabbing is accelerating throughout the Global South to facilitate climate change
mitigation. This paper illuminates the discursive and extra-economic means through which …

Non-native tree invasions occur not only in woodland or forest vegetation, but also into
areas with little or no native tree presence. Limiting factors for tree establishment and …

Use of inorganic fertilizers in smallholder cropping systems in Africa is often becoming
inefficient due to increasing unresponsiveness to fertilizer application. A study was …

Aim We studied the novel weapons hypothesis in the context of the broadly distributed tree
species Eucalyptus globulus. We evaluated the hypothesis that this Australian species …