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Research summaries are short descriptions of research papers relevant for natural resources management that consider invasive species and climate change, including key take home points and practical implications. Sign up for the NE RISCC listserv to receive email updates of research summaries (sent every other Wednesday). Research summaries address NE RISCC’s goal of translating science for practice. For more in-depth syntheses, check out our Research to Practice papers.

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Posts in Management Efficacy and Policy

TIEing it together

Morelli, T.L., C.J. Brown-Lima, J.M. Allen, E.M. Beaury, E.J. Fusco, A. Barker-Plotkin, B.B. Laginhas, B. Quirion, B. Griffin, B. McLaughlin, L. Munro, N. Olmstead, J. Richburg, & B.A. Bradley. “Translational Invasion Ecology: Bridging research and practice to address one of the greatest threats to biodiversity,” Biological Invasions (2021)

Management Efficacy and PolicyNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Northeast, Transitional ecology

Making Some Invasive Plant Lists and Checking Them Twice

Bradley, B.A., E.M. Beaury, E.J. Fusco, L. Munro, C. Brown-Lima, W. Coville, B. Kesler, N. Olmstead, and J. Parker, “Breaking down barriers to consistent, climate-smart risk assessments of invasive plants: a case study of US Northeast states”, 2022, Ecosphere, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4014

Impact Study, Management Efficacy and PolicyNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Prioritization, State regulation, Proactive management, Impact studies, Management Efficacy, Invasive Plant

The costs of inaction: Global invasive species spending reveals lack of proactive management

Cuthbert, R.N., Diagne, C., Hudgins, E.J., Turbelin, A., Ahmed, D.A., Albert, C., Bodey, T.W., Briski, E., Essl, F., Haubrock, P.J. and Gozlan, R.E., 2022. Biological invasion costs reveal insufficient proactive management worldwide. Science of The Total Environment, p.153404.

Management Efficacy and PolicyNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Prevention, InvaCost, Global spending, Damage costs

Have impacts, will travel - A database of invasive plants from around the world

Laginhas, B. B., and B. A. Bradley. 2022. Global plant invaders: a compendium of invasive plant taxa documented by the peer-reviewed literature. Ecology, 103(2):e03569. 10.1002/ecy.3569

Management Efficacy and PolicyNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024proactive management, Invasive Plant, Risk Assessment

Pest management in future climates: Warming reduces physical weed management effectiveness

Keller, J. A., & Shea, K. (2022). Pest management in future climates: Warming reduces physical weed management effectiveness. Ecological Applications, e2633.

Management Efficacy and PolicyNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Carduus nutans, Climate change, Integral projection model, Mechanical weed management

Remember your roots (if you’re an invasive plant, that is)

Pfadenhauer, W. G., Nelson, M. F., Laginhas, B. B., & Bradley, B. A. (2023). Remember your roots: Biogeographic properties of plants' native habitats can inform invasive plant risk assessments. Diversity and Distributions, 29(1): 4–18.

Management Efficacy and PolicyNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Management efficacy, Invasive plants, Weed risk assessment, Predicting invasive species, Machine learning

What’s our policy? Include climate change!

Bradley, B.A., Beaury, E.M., Fusco, E.J. and Lopez, B.E., 2023. Invasive Species Policy Must Embrace a Changing Climate. BioScience.

Management Efficacy and PolicyNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Management, Restoration, Review, Policy, Range Shifts

We are family: close relatives of invasives species are more likely to be invasive themselves

Buonaiuto, D. M., Evans, A. E., Fertakos, M. E., Pfadenhauer, W., Salva, J., & Bradley, B. A. (2023). Phylogenetic relationships of invasive plants are useful criteria for weed risk assessments. Conservation Letters, e12979. PDF

Management Efficacy and PolicyNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Invasiveness, Phylogeny, Policy, Weed risk assessment, Invasive Plant

When Trees Aren’t the Answer: Tree Invasions Not Recommended to Mitigate Climate Change

Nuñez et al. 2021. Should tree invasions be used in treeless ecosystems to mitigate climate change? Frontiers in Ecology & Environment. PDF.

Range Expansion, Competitiveness, Assisted Migration and Climate-Smart Restoration, Management Efficacy and PolicyNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Restoration, Carbon sequestration, Pines (Pinus), climate-smart restoration