The proactive strategy: Preparing the landscape for invasion by accelerating the evolution of resistance

Abstract

Restoration of forests devastated by nonnative invaders often dominates the attention of forest managers and their actions. However, taking a broader view of the invasion beyond the crisis areas reveals opportunities where proactive management can alter the outcome of the invasion in threatened areas. Proactive management moves past the idea of protecting the hosts from exposure to the established nonnative invader and shifts toward facilitating naturalization by preparing the landscape to sustain critical ecosystem function into the future in the presence of the invader (Schoettle and Sniezko 2007).

Parent Publication

• Proceedings of the IUFRO joint conference: Genetics of five-needle pines, rusts of forest trees, and Strobusphere; 2014 June 15–20; Fort Collins, CO

Citation

Schoettle, A. W.; Burns, K. S.; Sniezko, R. A. 2018. The proactive strategy: Preparing the landscape for invasion by accelerating the evolution of resistance. In: Schoettle, Anna W.; Sniezko, Richard A.; Kliejunas, John T., eds. Proceedings of the IUFRO joint conference: Genetics of five-needle pines, rusts of forest trees, and Strobusphere; 2014 June 15-20; Fort Collins, CO. Proc. RMRS-P-76. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 221-222.