Themes and examples of research topics:
Detection, deterioration, restoration and re-introduction

Inventorying and mapping of invasive species

• Quantitative methods for the detailing current distribution and potential extent of invasive plant species
• Determining the optimum scale for mapping invasive plants in protected areas
• Assessing long-term outcome of control on distribution and abundance of invasive plants
• Roads and rivers as conduits and bridgeheads for plant invasions

Assessing impacts of invasive species

• A meta-analysis of impacts of alien plant invasions in Mediterranean-type ecosystems
• Competition for light as mediator of the impact of an invasive tree
• Disruption of bird-mediated shrub nucleation processes in arid savanna by invasive plants
• Impacts of alien fishes on native fishes
• Functional groups as predictors of impact

Restoration ecology

• Reconnecting plants and pollinators: challenges for restoring pollination mutualisms

Novel ecosystems and new approaches to management in the face of rapid global change

• Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order
• Plant invasions in arid systems – special problems, special opportunities
• Multidimensional evaluation of managed relocation