Getting pestier: Climate change is increasing impacts from forest pests

Simler-Williamson, A. B., Rizzo, D. M., & Cobb, R. C. (2019). Interacting effects of global change on forest pest and pathogen dynamics. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 50, 381-403.

Cities “wake up” sleeper species

Frank, S. D., & Just, M. G. (2020). Can Cities Activate Sleeper Species and Predict Future Forest Pests? A Case Study of Scale Insects. Insects, 11(3), 142. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11030142.

Range Expansion, Impact StudyNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Latent Invasive Species, Urban, Warming

Supporting proactive management in the context of climate change: prioritizing range-shifting invasive plants based on impact

Rockwell-Postel, M., Laginhas, B.B. & Bradley, B.A. Supporting proactive management in the context of climate change: prioritizing range-shifting invasive plants based on impact. Biol Invasions (2020). PDF.

Impact Study, Range ExpansionNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Model, Invasive Plant

Adjusting the lens of invasion biology to focus on the impacts of climate-driven range shifts

Wallingford, P. D./Morelli, T. L., Allen, J. M., Beaury, E. M., Blumenthal, D. M., Bradley, B. A., Dukes, J. S., Early, R., Fusco, E. J., Goldberg, D. E., Ibáñez , I., Laginhas, B. B., Vilà, M., Sorte, C. J. B. (2020). Adjusting the lens of invasion biology to focus on the impacts of climate-driven range shifts. Nature Climate Change, 10, 398–405. PDF.

Range ExpansionNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Review, Range Shift

Getting IN the HABIT of proactive invasive plant management

Young, N. E., Jarnevich, C. S., Sofaer, H. R., Pearse, I., Sullivan, J., Engelstad, P., & Stohlgren, T. J. (2020). A modeling workflow that balances automation and human intervention to inform invasive plant management decisions at multiple spatial scales. PloS one, 15(3), e0229253.

Good (de)fences make good neighbors

Beaury, E.M., Fusco, E.J., Allen, J.M. and Bradley, B.A., 2021. Plant regulatory lists in the United States are reactive and inconsistent. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58(9), pp.1957-1966.

Range ExpansionNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Management, Policy, Invasive Plant, Risk/Monitoring, Range Shift

Research Summary: Northern Exposure - a dirty (two) dozen high-impact invasive plants headed our way

Coville, W., Griffin, B.J. and Bradley, B.A., Identifying high-impact invasive plants likely to shift into northern New England with climate change. Invasive Plant Science and Management, 2021

How well do SDMs predict occurrences in exotic ranges?

Nguyen, D. and B. Leung. 2022. How well do species distribution models predict occurrences in exotic ranges? Global Ecology and Biogeography 31(6): 1051-1065.

Don’t you know that you’re toxic? Allelopathic invasive plants expanding in the Northeast with climate change

Wang, A., Melton, A.E., Soltis, D.E. and Soltis, P.S., 2022. Potential distributional shifts in North America of allelopathic invasive plant species under climate change models. Plant diversity, 44(1), pp.11-19

Keeping grasslands grassy in a changing climate

Bois, S, C Neill, M Whittemore, L Champlin, K Beattie, R Hopping, J Karberg et al. Challenges, successes, and recommendations for management of coastal sandplain grasslands as regional biodiversity hotspots in the northeastern United States. Restoration Ecology (2023): e13928. PDF.

Range ExpansionNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Climate change, sandplain grasslands, invasive species, Review

Supporting Species Translocations: From Historic Ranges to Suitable Ecosystems

Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. 2023 Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants: Designation of Experimental Populations. 50 CFR Part 17. Federal Register Vol. 88, No. 126 Rules and Regulations. PDF

Getting to the (data) point

Fusco, E.J., Beaury, E.M., Bradley, B.A. et al. The invasive plant data landscape: a synthesis of spatial data and applications for research and management in the United States. Landsc Ecol (2023)

Northeast RISCCNovember 19, 2024occurrences, spatial, Invasive Plant, Distribution Data

Hot and happy? The future of invasive plant abundance in the eastern U.S.

Evans AE., Jarnevich C., Beaury EM., Teich N., Engelstad P., LaRoe J., Bradley BA. Shifting hotspots: Climate change projected to drive contractions and expansions of invasive plant abundance habitats. (2024). Diversity and Distributions, 30, 41–54. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13787

High-impact invasive plants expanding into mid-Atlantic states

Salva, J.D., and B.A. Bradley, 2023 “High-impact invasive plants expanding into Mid-Atlantic states - Identifying priority range-shifting species for monitoring in light of climate change”, Invasive Plant Science & Management

Range Expansion, Impact StudyNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Invasive Plant

Ornamental invaders are too close for comfort

Beaury, E. M., Allen, J. M., Evans, A. E., Fertakos, M. E., Pfadenhauer, W. G., & Bradley, B. A. (2023). Horticulture could facilitate invasive plant range infilling and range expansion with climate change. BioScience, 73(9), 635-642.

Range ExpansionNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024horticulture, ornamental plant, range expansion, Invasive Plant

You take the high road and they’ll take the low road, but non-natives will get there afore ye

Bradley BA, Beaury EM, Gallardo B, Ibáñez I, Jarnevich C, Morelli TL, Sofaer HR, Sorte CJB, Vilà M (2024) Observed and Potential Range Shifts of Native and Nonnative Species with Climate Change. Annual Reviews in Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics PDF

Acclimation effects on thermal tolerances of springtails from sub-Antarctic Marion Island: indigenous and invasive species

Slabber, S., Worland, M. R., Leinaas, H. P., & Chown, S. L. (2007). Acclimation effects on thermal tolerances of springtails from sub-Antarctic Marion Island: indigenous and invasive species. Journal of Insect Physiology, 53(2), 113-125. PDF.

CompetitivenessNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Experiment, Invasive Invertebrate, Terrestrial Habitat

Fizzing out: Increasing CO2 levels diminish biocontrol of invasive tropical soda apple

Diaz, R., V. Manrique, Z. He, and W.A. Overholt. 2012. Effect of elevated CO2 on tropical soda apple and its biological control agent Gratiana boliviana (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Biocontrol Science and Technology 22: 763-776 PDF.

Hot and hungry: Climate warming increases overwintering survival and enhances herbivory of alligator weed flea beetles.

Lu, X., Siemann, E., Shao, X., Wei, H., & Ding, J. (2013). Climate warming affects biological invasions by shifting interactions of plants and herbivores. Global change biology, 19(8), 2339-2347. PDF.

Don't Wake the Sleeper Species!

Michael J Spear, Jake R Walsh, Anthony Ricciardi, M Jake Vander Zanden, The Invasion Ecology of Sleeper Populations: Prevalence, Persistence, and Abrupt Shifts, BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 4, April 2021, Pages 357–369, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa168.

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