Ravi et al. (2022) in Global Change Biology: Biological invasions and climate change amplify each other’s effects on dryland degradation.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.15919

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Higher temperature regimes compounding the effects of frequent droughts is shifting the competitive advantage of plant functional groups, and is increasing the probability of vegetation “crash” states. Thus, two major drivers of global environmental change, biological invasions and climate change, can be expected to synergistically accelerate desertification. Thus, the two major drivers of global environmental change, biological invasion and climate change, can be expected to synergistically accelerate ecosystem degradation unless large-scale interventions are enacted.