Plant Invasions in Protected Areas
Patterns, Problems and Challenges
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Llewellyn C. Foxcroft
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Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable
Although invasive alien species have long been recognized as a major threat to nature and people, until now there has been no comprehensive global review of the status, trends, drivers, impacts, management and...
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Open AccessNaturalized and invasive alien plants in the Kruger National Park, South Africa
Kruger National Park (KNP), South Africa, covers an area of 20,000 km2 and is one of the world’s most widely known protected areas. Like many protected areas, KNP is facing an increasing problem with the introduc...
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Assessing the level of compliance with alien plant regulations in a large African protected area
Regulations provide the legal basis for managing biological invasions, but assessments of their effectiveness are rare. To assess the influence of national and local regulations on alien plant species richness...
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Introduction and invasion of common myna (Acridotheres tristis) in Kruger National Park, South Africa: still time for action?
Common myna (Acridotheres tristis) is a passerine bird native to south-east Asia, established as an alien in many parts of the world including South Africa, where it is invasive. Common mynas are synanthropic bir...
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Open AccessWater availability, bedrock, disturbance by herbivores, and climate determine plant diversity in South-African savanna
To identify factors that drive plant species richness in South-African savanna and explore their relative importance, we sampled plant communities across habitats differing in water availability, disturbance, ...
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Open AccessThe invasive cactus Opuntia stricta creates fertility islands in African savannas and benefits from those created by native trees
The patchy distribution of trees typical of savannas often results in a discontinuous distribution of water, nutrient resources, and microbial communities in soil, commonly referred to as “islands of fertility...
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Quantifying the potential impact of alien plants of Iran using the Generic Impact Scoring System (GISS) and Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT)
Assessing the impacts of alien plant species is scientifically important and critical for supporting invasion-related policies. Generic Impact Scoring System (GISS) and Environmental Impact Classification for ...
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Open AccessMetabolomic differences between invasive alien plants from native and invaded habitats
Globalization facilitated the spread of invasive alien species (IAS), undermining the stability of the world’s ecosystems. We investigated the metabolomic profiles of three IAS species: Chromolaena odorata (Aster...
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Open AccessInvasion syndromes: a systematic approach for predicting biological invasions and facilitating effective management
Our ability to predict invasions has been hindered by the seemingly idiosyncratic context-dependency of individual invasions. However, we argue that robust and useful generalisations in invasion science can be...
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The Role of Environmental Factors in Promoting and Limiting Biological Invasions in South Africa
South Africa is a megadiverse country in terms of biodiversity, with continental South Africa composed of nine terrestrial biomes. This diversity is in part due to the wide range of climatic and topographic co...
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The Extent and Effectiveness of Alien Plant Control Projects in South Africa
Since 1995, the South African government has spent at least ZAR 15 billion (unadjusted for inflation; approximately USD1 billion) on alien plant control operations across South Africa. The amount spent per y...
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The Biogeography of South African Terrestrial Plant Invasions
Thousands of plant species have been introduced, intentionally and accidentally, to South Africa from many parts of the world. Alien plants are now conspicuous features of many South African landscapes and hu...
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Analysing the Risks Posed by Biological Invasions to South Africa
Risk analysis is an important decision-support tool for the management of biological invasions. South Africa, as a signatory to international agreements, has enacted legislation requiring risk analyses to be c...
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Knowing-Doing Continuum or Knowing-Doing Gap? Information Flow Between Researchers and Managers of Biological Invasions in South Africa
Increasing resources are being allocated both to the management and research of biological invasions in South Africa. However, as with many natural resource management and conservation programmes globally, the...
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The impact of data precision on the effectiveness of alien plant control programmes: a case study from a protected area
Successful long-term invasive alien plant control programmes rely on alien plant distribution and abundance data to assess, prioritise, implement and monitor the efficacy of the programme. Here we assess the i...
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Erratum to: Plant invasion science in protected areas: progress and priorities
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Plant invasion science in protected areas: progress and priorities
Invasive alien species are a major problem for managers of protected areas (PAs) worldwide. Until the 1980s biological invasions were widely considered to be largely confined to anthropogenically disturbed sit...
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The Role and Value of Conservation Agency Research
Governments charge their conservation agencies to safeguard biodiversity through protected areas and threat mitigation. Increasingly, conservation management and policy need to be supported by rigorous evidenc...
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Plant Invasions in Protected Areas: Outlining the Issues and Creating the Links
There are numerous excellent volumes on the topic of biological invasions, some of which deal with conservation-related issues to varying degrees. Almost 30 years since the last global assessment of alien plan...
