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Plant species that invade an alien area and outgrow the native vegetation, establishing and increasing their own territory, often lead to negative economic, environmental, and social impacts. Even native species can behave like invasive species by their
exponential spread. Similarly, not all non-native species are invasive. Many alien
invasive species, however, do threaten the health and integrity of our terrestrial and
aquatic ecosystems. As the human population explodes and trade becomes increasingly globalized, the transboundary movement of species from their places of origin
to alien regions is escalating and is expected to continue so in the coming decades

The chapters are grouped into four sections. The first section examines invasion
ecology through both synthesis and original research articles. Seven chapters are
included in this section. The second section also has seven chapters. These give
readers a flavor of the ecological impacts of alien invaders and include examples
from both tropical and temperate regions of the world. The third section is an
exploration into the adaptive collaborative management strategies that are central
to successful control of invasive alien plants. The first chapter in this section
describes the concept of adaptive collaborative restoration in great detail. The second
chapter discusses the ecology and management of the world’s number one invasive
plant species of natural ecosystems. The remaining three chapters of the section give
specific examples of invasive plant management, one each from a local, state, and
country perspective. The fourth (last) section includes two chapters that discuss the
socioeconomic and policy aspects of invasive species management using two
examples, one from the tropics (Namibia) and another from the temperate region
(the United States).