Aim: Riparian habitats are amongst the most invaded ecosystems world-wide. The great abundance of invasive species in river corridors is attributed to the efficient transport of alien species' propagules and reduced competition from native plants due to regular flooding. Once an invasive species...

Anthropogenic environmental change can increase exotic species performance and reduce native biodiversity. Nutrient enrichment may favor exotic plants with higher growth rates. Warming may increase the performance of exotic species from warmer native ranges and/or decrease the performance of...

Herbivory and nutrient limitation can increase the resistance of temperature-limited systems to invasions under climate warming. We imported seeds of lowland species to tundra under factorial treatments of warming, fertilization, herbivore exclusion and biomass removal. We show that warming alone...

Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) and soil nitrogen (N) may confer competitive advantages to invasive species over native plant species. We conducted a two-way factorial experiment, growing the model invasive plant Arundo donax in CO₂ growth chambers to test how CO₂ and N availability...

Bacteria are important soil components as both decomposers and plant symbionts and play a major role in plant-microbe interaction processes. However, little is known about the diversity of bacterial communities in the rhizosphere of the invasive plant Flaveria bidentis. In this study, we used...

Plant invasion has been reported to affect a mass of soil ecological processes and functions, although invasion effects are often context-, species- and ecosystem-specific. This study was conducted to explore potential impacts of Praxelis clematidea invasion on contents of total and available soil...

The availability of nitrogen and phosphorus is an important factor determining the growth and competitive dominance of invasive plants. To clarify the influence of nutrient availability on the performance of alien species, we conducted a greenhouse experiment in which the invasive plant ...

Blooms of Nostocales (Cyanobacteria) are thought to be invading subtropical and temperate water bodies. According to nutrient stoichiometry and physiological differences between cyanobacterial groups, the replacement of non-heterocystous species by Nostocales is favored when dissolved inorganic...

Invasive plants have wide-ranging impacts on native systems including reducing native plant richness and altering soil chemistry, microbes, and nutrient cycling. Increasingly, these effects are found to linger long after removal of the invader. We examined how soil chemistry, bacterial communities, ...

Floods, spatially complex water flows, and organism movements all generate important fluxes of aquatic-derived materials into terrestrial habitats, counteracting the gravity-driven downhill transport of matter from terrestrial-to-aquatic ecosystems. The magnitude of these aquatic subsidies is often ...