Invasive trees use logging roads to invade Borneo forests

Mongabay
By Morgan Erickson-DavisMar 25, 2014, 12:43 pm40 pts
The spiked pepper tree (Piper aduncum) is native to the American tropics, but has made itself at home in a variety of other locales where it can crowd out local vegetation and interfere with forest recovery. Although it’s been slow to spread through Borneo since its introduction to Indonesia in 1952, new…

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