Patterning ecological restoration after weeds

The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to prevent, halt, and reverse the degradation of ecosystems every continent. Disturbances stemming from anthropogenic or natural causes make plant community restoration challenging. introduction fast-growing weeds that generate high biomass produce copious seed is most threatening communities. A paradigm shift in ecosystem needed emphasizes traits affected ecological processes similar weeds. repeated native plants with weedy characteristics follows propagule pressure evolution invasiveness hypotheses. In targeting areas heavy weed populations, could establish more successfully develop into functioning