The invasive white ginger lily (Hedichium coronarium - J. Köenig, 1783) simplifies the trait composition of an insect assemblage in the littoral zone of a Savanna reservoir. Invasive plants are believed to shift the trait composition of aquatic insects dwelling in banks of lentic ecosystems. In...

The success of an invasive plant depends on its competitive advantage in the new community. This advantage can be attributed to high phenotypic plasticity, which either allows the plant to develop under a broad variety of environmental conditions, or grants it with a higher fitness compared to...

The nutritional quality of leaf litter can influence shredder chironomid larvae activities and affect leaf litter decomposition in tropical streams. The invasion of riparian areas by exotic plants may alter the nutritional quality of allochthonous material in streams, which would influence litter...

Plant invasions in tropical agricultural landscapes have been poorly studied so far. Here, we use plot data collected in 2015 in the La Gamba valley in southern Costa Rica to analyse the spread of two invasive alien species (Hydrilla verticillata, Hedychium coronarium) on the landscape level. In...

This paper describes 9 taxa of vascular plants not previously recorded as naturalized on Madeira Island, Portugal: Malephora crocea, Opuntia stricta, Crassula muscosa, Euphorbia maculata, Chamaesyce serpens [Euphorbia serpens], Clematis vitalba, Aloe ciliaris, Melinis repens and Hedychium...

Essential oils have the potential to be used as bioherbicides, and possess the advantage of their biodegradability, high structural diversity and reduced natural resistance to weeds. The essential oils of the leaves and rhizomes of Hedychium coronarium, an exotic invasive plant adapted to different ...

Plant biowaste of alien species represents a potential resource for compost production. This study investigated the seed and seedling responses of maize and pea to composts generated from the biowaste of four invasive species in eThekwini, South Africa: Acacia podalyriifolia, Hedychium gardnerianum...

Invasive species can cause structural and functional changes in their non-native habitats, such as changes in the trophic chain. We describe ramet herbivory of butterfly ginger, an aggressive aquatic weed in Brazil, by capybaras in a floodplain area of a Cerrado reserve. This is the first record of ...

The presence of Dysmicoccus brevipes Cokerell is reported for the first time in the country in the flower rhizome of Hedychium coronarium Koenig, whose symptoms are characterized by tissue necrotic, depressions, in which abundant populations of this insect were found in different development stages.