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Tag Archives: Invasive species
Invasive Species Week: UK Invasions in a Changing Climate
Regan Early (University of Exeter) and I wrote this piece to mark Invasive Species Week for the British Ecological Society blog. In it, we discuss the possible synergies between climate change and species invasions, and some associated policy challenges. Whether … Continue reading
Species invasions and climate change: can grasslands cope?
Lizzie Jones and I contributed a chapter about grassland invasions to Grasslands and Climate Change, the latest volume of the British Ecological Society’s Ecological Reviews series. This is a blog post that Lizzie – a former MSc student of mine at Southampton – … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate change, Grasslands, invasion, invasive plants, Invasive species, plant traits
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How can exotic invasions drive native species extinct?
Read the full paper here: Catford, J. A., Bode, M. & Tilman, D. (2018) Introduced species that overcome life history tradeoffs can cause native extinctions. Nature Communications 9: 2131.
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Tagged biological invasions, cartoon, comic, comic strip, David Tilman, enemy release, extinctions, invasion ecology, invasion impacts, invasions, Invasive species, Jane Catford, Michael Bode, Nature Communications, plant invasions, species extinctions, species invasions
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Weed or feed? New pasture plants intensify invasive species risk
To meet increasing demands for livestock production, agribusinesses around the world are breeding new varieties of pasture plants. Unfortunately, many of the plant characteristics promoted for use in pasture – higher growth rates, greater resistance to disease, higher tolerance of environmental … Continue reading
Managing the Murray’s water to combat invasive species
About this time last year, I wrote an article for H2O Thinking, a water management magazine published by eWater (until recently the eWater CRC). While the turnaround time is nothing to envy, the piece found its place on the web earlier this week. In … Continue reading
Project kick-off: propagule pressure, functional traits, resource availability and plant invasion
As mentioned in a previous post, I was lucky enough to be awarded one of the inaugural ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) late last year. I officially started my DECRA research in April, so I thought it was … Continue reading
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Tagged alien plant invasion, Australia, Australian National University, Biodiversity, Brendan Wintle, Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, Cindy Hauser, community assembly, David Tilman, field experiment, Invasive species, Mick McCarthy, Peter Vesk, University of Minnesota
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New paper: The intermediate disturbance hypothesis and plant invasions: implications for species richness and management
Jan 2012 – Some colleagues and I have recently written a paper that examines the relationship between the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) and alien plant invasions. Published in Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, the paper is structured around … Continue reading
Newsletter article: Causes, impacts and ways to manage exotic plant invasion along the River Murray
Dec 2011 – Condensing a rather large topic down to a single page, I discuss some of the processes that lead to high levels of invasion in riparian zones in this article. I also present information on why we should … Continue reading
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Tagged alien plant invasion, flooding, flow regime, Invasive species, Murray River, Riparian zone, river regulation
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ARC success!
Nov 2011 – I’ve just been awarded a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council. Over the next three years (2012-2015), I will investigate the susceptibility of native vegetation edges to alien plant invasion using quantitative and … Continue reading
