José L. Espinar

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a global meta-analysis of 199 articles reporting 1041 field studies that in total describe the impacts of 135 alien plant taxa on resident species, communities and ecosystems.

TL;DR: In this article, the concept of creating a "safe operating space" is used to better ensure that ecosystems do not surpass thresholds for collapse during an era of global change, using the iconic Donana wetlands in Spain as a case study.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis and phylogenetic regressions based on 216 studies were used to examine the effects of 96 non-native plant species on species richness of resident plants and animals while considering differences in nonnative species traits (life-form, clonality or vegetative reproduction, and nitrogenfixing ability) and characteristics of the invaded site (ecosystem type, insularity and climatic region).

TL;DR: The results suggest that these emergent helophytes are able to modify water column parameters which are important for the communities of submerged macrophytes and play a fundamental role in the generation of secondary sources of environmental variability which, superimposed on the main gradient of flooding/salinity, favours the appearance of new compositional equilibria in such communities.

TL;DR: This work investigated the possibility that some seeds fall down cracks and rapidly become deeply buried in seasonally dry habitats that develop deep soil cracks during the dry season, and found three dominant clonal perennials in the Doñana salt marsh had bimodal viable seed depth distributions.