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Natural Areas Journal Invasive Species Compendium

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79 manuscripts curated from over 10 years of work published in the Natural Areas Journal.

 NAA is proud to offer the Natural Areas Journal Invasive Species Compendium: An Offering to Aid in Your Work and a Call to Action as a resource to those who steward natural areas and face the ever-growing impacts of invasive species.

This compendium highlights over 10 years of published work in the form of more than 79 different manuscripts and articles that are all open access, and organized into the following themes and sub-themes:

• Effective Treatment of Invasive Species
  • Assessing the Effectiveness of Invasive Species Treatments and Management
  • Assessing Herbicide Treatments and Increasing Effectiveness through an Integrated Approach
  • Increasing Effectiveness through Knowledge

• Impact of Invasive Species on Native Species Diversity, Abundance, Habitat, Recruitment, and Survival
• Tolerances and Limitations on Dispersal, Recruitment, and Survival of Invasive Species
• Understanding the Relationship between Wildfire and Invasive Species
• Successful Restoration (Challenges, Management Strategies, Measuring Success)
• EDRR & Prevention
• Protecting Natural Areas and Species of Concern from Invasive Species
  • Strategies for Assessing Natural Area Condition/Health and Identifying Species, Locations, and Management Actions to Better Protect Natural Areas
  • Protecting Species of Concern
• Defining Invasive Species and Managing Plant Communities under Climate Change

Thanks to the support of the USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and the National Parks Service, this resource is freely available to all.

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Vol. 44, No. 5

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The Natural Areas Journal Invasive Species Compendium:

An Offering to Aid in Your Work and a Call to Action (Open Access)

Introduction by Terri Hogan, (Ret.) National Park Service

Since the beginning of my career in the early 1990s, the awareness of the threats posed by invasive species to natural areas, the species that inhabit them, and the ecological processes that maintain the communities they encompass has grown. The challenges to successful management have also grown and are complicated by increasing disturbance and habitat fragmentation, continuous species introductions and spread of those species, and the impacts of climate change.

The NAA offers this Invasive Species Compendium as a resource for practitioners who face these challenges as they work to protect and manage natural areas.

This compendium brings together peer-reviewed articles from the Natural Areas Journal that were published from 2015 through 2024. These articles provide practical information on addressing invasive species, are written by those who work within this community, and offer a forum for dialog and sharing within this community of practice. [READ MORE]