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Non-native Plants and Adaptive Collaborative Approaches to Ecosystem Restoration in the United States

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Non-native invasive plants pose a serious socio-ecological challenge due to their potential to replace and damage human-sustaining ecosystems. Widespread, rapid, and unpredictable changes in ecosystems suggest that this challenge requires a new approach integrating adaptive management, collaboration, and ecological restoration ecology. Although such approaches have been embraced in ideal form, the actual practice of these approaches is complex. This chapter reviews recent developments in addressing invasive plant species in the southeastern and western US these cases illustrate how new knowledge platforms raise awareness of invasive plant issues and promote action, the ways that vertical and horizontal collaborative relationships are forming, and the importance of science. While these cases fall short of the ideal of adaptive collaborative restoration, they share many of its characteristics and can be moved further toward it.

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  1. Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 320 Green St., Athens, GA, 30602, USA

    John Schelhas

  2. Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Auburn University, 521 Devall Drive, Auburn, AL, 26849, USA

    James H. Miller

  3. Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 920 Valley Road, Reno, NV, 89512, USA

    Jeanne Chambers

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Schelhas, J., Miller, J.H., Chambers, J. (2012). Non-native Plants and Adaptive Collaborative Approaches to Ecosystem Restoration in the United States. In: Stanturf, J., Madsen, P., Lamb, D. (eds) A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration. World Forests, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5338-9_8

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