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Lantana (Lantana camara L.) is a highly aggressive exotic environmental weed that is well established throughout eastern Australia and is reportedly able to displace native vegetation under a range of conditions. Whether lantana is able to displace native vegetation in the absence of anthropogenic disturbance is subject of some disagreement in the literature. The question remains, however, as to what is the future for the Gold Coast hinterland rainforests in the face of invasion by lantana? This study is mainly directed at addressing the dynamics at the lantana/rainforest interface, especially lantanas capacity to invade and ability to compete with the wetter subtropical rainforests of the MacPherson Ranges of southeast Queensland, where the studies are centered on the Springbrook Plateau and the Springbrook and Lamington National Parks. The aims of this research are to determine: whether lantana can displace rainforest; whether rainforest can reclaim the space lost to lantana; and what are the mechanisms and processes involved.

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