Invasives
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Helping to train the next generation of conservation scientists: running the IGERT on biodiversity conservation in novel ecosystems Research topics range from economics to entomology, and research locations literally span the globe. Some might call administering such a grant challenging, but to Shelley Schmidt, it’s a treat. |
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Where will novel ecosystems in the United States exist in the future? Novel ecosystems, ecosystems with strong human influence are an important new challenge for ecology. Will these ecosystems increase in number in the future? Where? |
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Urban Sprawl Supports Rapid Invasions By Non-Native Plant Species Plant invasions often occur near human settlements, but how can we quantify them? Gregorio Gavier Pizarro mapped the expansion of Glossy privet, an invasive tree, over a period of 23 years in central Argentina. He found that this species has been spreading rapidly, and urban sprawl has a major role in this process. |
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The Legacy of Past Housing Patterns is Important to Explain Today’s Plant Invasions How important is the past to understand present plant invasions? Gregorio Gavier Pizarro recently found that plant invasions may depend more on historic housing and road patterns than on today’s urban sprawl. To the contrary, contemporary forest fragmentation explained invasions better than fragmentation legacies. |
