Lessons from South Africa on Monitoring the Impact of Invasive Trees on Water Resources By Richard Bugan Copyright © IPS - Inter Press Service --

https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/07/lessons-from-south-africa-on-monitoring-the-impact-of-invasive-trees-on-water-resources/ CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Jul 4 2025 (IPS) - Concerns about the impacts of invasive species is not new; it dates to the 19th century. The term was popularized in Charles Elton’s 1958 book “The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants”. However, the concept gained significant attention in the 1990s and early 2000s as academic interest surged. This led to an increase in publications by invasion biologists. Copyright © IPS - Inter Press Service --