Research Summaries

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.

Soil microbes love invasive plants

He, Y., Li, J., Siemann, E., Li, B., Xu, Y. and Wang, Y., 2025. Plant Invasion Increases Soil Microbial Biomass Carbon: Meta‐Analysis and Empirical Tests. Global Change Biology, 31(3), p.e70109. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70109

Impact StudyBethany BradleyOctober 21, 2026Invasive plants, Meta-analyses, Carbon sequestration, Microbes, Soil

Climate-Driven Impacts of Exotic Species on Marine Ecosystems

Bennett, Scott, Julia Santana‐Garcon, Núria Marbà, Gabriel Jorda, Andrea Anton, Eugenia T. Apostolaki, Just Cebrian, et al. “Climate-Driven Impacts of Exotic Species on Marine Ecosystems.” Global Ecology and Biogeography 30, no. 5 (2021): 1043–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13283.

Range Expansion, Novel Pathways, Impact Study, Climate Extremes, CompetitivenessNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Meta-analyses, Thermal Environment