Controlling invasive plant species in ecological restoration: A global review

By Emanuela W. A. Weidlich, F. G. Florido, Taísi B. Sorrini, Pedro Henrique Santin Brancalion. Journal of Applied Ecology, 2020

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1. Invasive plant species can hinder the establishment and growth of native plants and impact several ecosystem properties, such as soil cover, nutrient cycling, fire regimes and hydrology. Controlling invasive plants is then a necessary, yet usually expensive, step towards the restoration of an ecosystem. A synthesis of literature is needed to understand variation in invasive plants' impacts and their practical control in restoration contexts, and to identify associated knowledge gaps. 2. We reviewed 372 articles published from 2000 to 2019 covering the control of undesirable plants (both exotic invasive and overabundant native plant species) in ecological restoration to gather information on the main plants being controlled and methods used, and considering the distribution of studies among biomes and countries grouped according to the Human Development Index (HDI). 3. Grasses and forbs were the most-studied invasive plant species in restoration sites, but invasive trees were well studied in the tropics. Poaceae and Asteraceae were the most studied families of invasive plants. Non-chemical interventions (mostly mowing and prescribed fire) were used in more than half of the reviewed studies globally,

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Priority effects and ecological restoration (2020, background): “Restoration often involves manipulating which plant species are introduced, sown, planted, or transferred to a disturbed or degraded site at a given time (Weidlich et al. 2020).”