Abstract
Editorial: Trait-Based Plant Community Assembly, Ecological Restoration, and the Biocontrol of Invasive Exotic Plant Species
Highlights
Given trees’ photosynthetic carbon capture ability, a large number of forest reforestation initiatives have been established globally to limit global warming to 1.5◦C by 2050 (The Bonn Challenge, 2011; UN Climate Summit, 2014)
Trait-based methods have been used to quantify plant community assembly and life history strategies. These methods have been deemed an effective way of selecting candidate species for use in ecological restoration and the biocontrol of invasive exotic plant species
There is still a need for the development and successful application of a specific, step-by-step procedure to guide the use of functional traits for selecting species for ecological restoration and biocontrol of invasive exotic plant species
Summary
Given trees’ photosynthetic carbon capture ability, a large number of forest reforestation initiatives (such as the Bonn Challenge, the related AFR100, and the New York Declaration on Forests) have been established globally to limit global warming to 1.5◦C by 2050 (The Bonn Challenge, 2011; UN Climate Summit, 2014). Trait-Based Plant Community Assembly, Ecological Restoration, and the Biocontrol of Invasive Exotic Plant Species The standard for selecting exotic, native, yet several early-successional or economically important tree species is based on their high survival and fast-growth rates under severely degraded conditions of forests that have large open areas (Martínez-Garza and Howe, 2003; Shimamoto et al, 2018).
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