Plant Invasions in Protected Areas
Patterns, Problems and Challenges
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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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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 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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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...
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A Cross-Scale Approach for Abundance Estimation of Invasive Alien Plants in a Large Protected Area
Efficient management of invasive alien plants requires robust and cost-efficient methods for measuring the abundance and spatial structure of invasive alien plants with sufficient accuracy. Here, we present su...
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Icons in Peril: Invasive Alien Plants in African Protected Areas
Protected areas in Africa are global conservation icons, attracting millions of tourists a year. However, these areas are being threatened by a growing human population making increasing demands on the natural...
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Threats to Paradise? Plant Invasions in Protected Areas of the Western Indian Ocean Islands
The islands of the Western Indian Ocean are well known for their unique biodiversity. However, much of the native habitat has been destroyed and the remainder is threatened by invasive alien species. In this r...
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The Bottom Line: Impacts of Alien Plant Invasions in Protected Areas
Phrases like “invasive species pose significant threats to biodiversity…” are often used to justify studying and managing biological invasions. Most biologists agree that this is true and quantitative studies ...
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Invasive Alien Plants in Protected Areas: Threats, Opportunities, and the Way Forward
The potential threats posed by biological invasions are widely appreciated, but the state of knowledge and level of management of invasive alien plants in protected areas differs considerably across the world....
