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Vedder D, Leidinger L, Sarmento Cabral J. Propagule pressure and an invasion syndrome determine invasion success in a plant community model. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:17106-17116. [PMID: 34938496 PMCID: PMC8668767 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Revised: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 10/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The success of species invasions depends on multiple factors, including propagule pressure, disturbance, productivity, and the traits of native and non-native species. While the importance of many of these determinants has already been investigated in relative isolation, they are rarely studied in combination. Here, we address this shortcoming by exploring the effect of the above-listed factors on the success of invasions using an individual-based mechanistic model. This approach enables us to explicitly control environmental factors (temperature as surrogate for productivity, disturbance, and propagule pressure) as well as to monitor whole-community trait distributions of environmental adaptation, mass, and dispersal abilities. We simulated introductions of plant individuals to an oceanic island to assess which factors and species traits contribute to invasion success. We found that the most influential factors were higher propagule pressure and a particular set of traits. This invasion trait syndrome was characterized by a relative similarity in functional traits of invasive to native species, while invasive species had on average higher environmental adaptation, higher body mass, and increased dispersal distances, that is, had greater competitive and dispersive abilities. Our results highlight the importance in management practice of reducing the import of alien species, especially those that display this trait syndrome and come from similar habitats as those being managed.
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- Daniel Vedder
- Ecosystem Modeling GroupCenter for Computational and Theoretical BiologyUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgGermany
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- Ecosystem Modeling GroupCenter for Computational and Theoretical BiologyUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgGermany
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- Ecosystem Modeling GroupCenter for Computational and Theoretical BiologyUniversity of WürzburgWürzburgGermany
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Givnish TJ, Kriebel R, Zaborsky JG, Rose JP, Spalink D, Waller DM, Cameron KM, Sytsma KJ. Adaptive associations among life history, reproductive traits, environment, and origin in the Wisconsin angiosperm flora. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2020; 107:1677-1692. [PMID: 33315246 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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PREMISE We tested 25 classic and novel hypotheses regarding trait-origin, trait-trait, and trait-environment relationships to account for flora-wide variation in life history, habit, and especially reproductive traits using a plastid DNA phylogeny of most native (96.6%, or 1494/1547 species) and introduced (87.5%, or 690/789 species) angiosperms in Wisconsin, USA. METHODS We assembled data on life history, habit, flowering, dispersal, mating system, and occurrence across open/closed/mixed habitats across species in the state phylogeny. We used phylogenetically structured analyses to assess the strength and statistical significance of associations predicted by our models. RESULTS Introduced species are more likely to be annual herbs, occupy open habitats, have large, visually conspicuous, hermaphroditic flowers, and bear passively dispersed seeds. Among native species, hermaphroditism is associated with larger, more conspicuous flowers; monoecy is associated with small, inconspicuous flowers and passive seed dispersal; and dioecy is associated with small, inconspicuous flowers and fleshy fruits. Larger flowers with more conspicuous colors are more common in open habitats, and in understory species flowering under open (spring) canopies; fleshy fruits are more common in closed habitats. Wind pollination may help favor dioecy in open habitats. CONCLUSIONS These findings support predictions regarding how breeding systems depend on flower size, flower color, and fruit type, and how those traits depend on habitat. This study is the first to combine flora-wide phylogenies with complete trait databases and phylogenetically structured analyses to provide powerful tests of evolutionary hypotheses about reproductive traits and their variation with geographic source, each other, and environmental conditions.
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- Thomas J Givnish
- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53705, USA
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- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53705, USA
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- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53705, USA
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- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53705, USA
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- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53705, USA
- Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA
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- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53705, USA
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- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53705, USA
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- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53705, USA
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Pyšek P, Bacher S, Kühn I, Novoa A, Catford JA, Hulme PE, Pergl J, Richardson DM, Wilson JRU, Blackburn TM. MAcroecological Framework for Invasive Aliens (MAFIA): disentangling large-scale context dependence in biological invasions. NEOBIOTA 2020. [DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.62.52787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Macroecology is the study of patterns, and the processes that determine those patterns, in the distribution and abundance of organisms at large scales, whether they be spatial (from hundreds of kilometres to global), temporal (from decades to centuries), and organismal (numbers of species or higher taxa). In the context of invasion ecology, macroecological studies include, for example, analyses of the richness, diversity, distribution, and abundance of alien species in regional floras and faunas, spatio-temporal dynamics of alien species across regions, and cross-taxonomic analyses of species traits among comparable native and alien species pools. However, macroecological studies aiming to explain and predict plant and animal naturalisations and invasions, and the resulting impacts, have, to date, rarely considered the joint effects of species traits, environment, and socioeconomic characteristics. To address this, we present the MAcroecological Framework for Invasive Aliens (MAFIA). The MAFIA explains the invasion phenomenon using three interacting classes of factors – alien species traits, location characteristics, and factors related to introduction events – and explicitly maps these interactions onto the invasion sequence from transport to naturalisation to invasion. The framework therefore helps both to identify how anthropogenic effects interact with species traits and environmental characteristics to determine observed patterns in alien distribution, abundance, and richness; and to clarify why neglecting anthropogenic effects can generate spurious conclusions. Event-related factors include propagule pressure, colonisation pressure, and residence time that are important for mediating the outcome of invasion processes. However, because of context dependence, they can bias analyses, for example those that seek to elucidate the role of alien species traits. In the same vein, failure to recognise and explicitly incorporate interactions among the main factors impedes our understanding of which macroecological invasion patterns are shaped by the environment, and of the importance of interactions between the species and their environment. The MAFIA is based largely on insights from studies of plants and birds, but we believe it can be applied to all taxa, and hope that it will stimulate comparative research on other groups and environments. By making the biases in macroecological analyses of biological invasions explicit, the MAFIA offers an opportunity to guide assessments of the context dependence of invasions at broad geographical scales.
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Phenological and reproductive traits and their response to environmental variation differ among native and invasive grasses in a Neotropical savanna. Biol Invasions 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-019-02013-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Menzel A, Hempel S, Klotz S, Moora M, Pyšek P, Rillig MC, Zobel M, Kühn I. Mycorrhizal status helps explain invasion success of alien plant species. Ecology 2016; 98:92-102. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2016] [Revised: 09/19/2016] [Accepted: 09/30/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Andreas Menzel
- Department of Community Ecology; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ; Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4 06120 Halle (Saale) Germany
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- Institute of Biology; Dahlem Center for Plant Sciences; Freie Universität Berlin; Altensteinstraße 6 14195 Berlin Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB); 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Department of Community Ecology; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ; Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4 06120 Halle (Saale) Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig; Deutscher Platz 5e 04103 Leipzig Germany
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences; University of Tartu; 40 Lai Street Tartu 51005 Estonia
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- Department of Invasion Ecology; Institute of Botany; The Czech Academy of Sciences; CZ-252 43 Průhonice Czech Republic
- Department of Ecology; Faculty of Science; Charles University; Viničná 7 CZ-128 44 Prague 2 Czech Republic
- Department of Botany and Zoology; Centre for Invasion Biology; Stellenbosch University; Matieland 7602 South Africa
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- Institute of Biology; Dahlem Center for Plant Sciences; Freie Universität Berlin; Altensteinstraße 6 14195 Berlin Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB); 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences; University of Tartu; 40 Lai Street Tartu 51005 Estonia
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- Department of Community Ecology; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ; Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4 06120 Halle (Saale) Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig; Deutscher Platz 5e 04103 Leipzig Germany
- Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden; Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg; Am Kirchtor 1 06108 Halle Germany
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Pyšek P, Manceur AM, Alba C, McGregor KF, Pergl J, Stajerová K, Chytrý M, Danihelka J, Kartesz J, Klimesova J, Lucanova M, Moravcová L, Nishino M, Sadlo J, Suda J, Tichy L, Kühn I. Naturalization of central European plants in North America: species traits, habitats, propagule pressure, residence time. Ecology 2015; 96:762-74. [PMID: 26236872 DOI: 10.1890/14-1005.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The factors that promote invasive behavior in introduced plant species occur across many scales of biological and ecological organization. Factors that act at relatively small scales, for example, the evolution of biological traits associated with invasiveness, scale up to shape species distributions among different climates and habitats, as well as other characteristics linked to invasion, such as attractiveness for cultivation (and by extension propagule pressure). To identify drivers of invasion it is therefore necessary to disentangle the contribution of multiple factors that are interdependent. To this end, we formulated a conceptual model describing the process of invasion of central European species into North America based on a sequence of "drivers." We then used confirmatory path analysis to test whether the conceptual model is supported by a statistical model inferred from a comprehensive database containing 466 species. The path analysis revealed that naturalization of central European plants in North America, in terms of the number of North American regions invaded, most strongly depends on residence time in the invaded range and the number of habitats occupied by species in their native range. In addition to the confirmatory path analysis, we identified the effects of various biological traits on several important drivers of the conceptualized invasion process. The data supported a model that included indirect effects of biological traits on invasion via their effect on the number of native range habitats occupied and cultivation in the native range. For example, persistent seed banks and longer flowering periods are positively correlated with number of native habitats, while a stress-tolerant life strategy is negatively correlated with native range cultivation. However, the importance of the biological traits is nearly an order of magnitude less than that of the larger scale drivers and highly dependent on the invasion stage (traits were associated only with native range drivers). This suggests that future research should explicitly link biological traits to the different stages of invasion, and that a failure to consider residence time or characteristics of the native range may seriously overestimate the role of biological traits, which, in turn, may result in spurious predictions of plant invasiveness.
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Suda J, Meyerson LA, Leitch IJ, Pyšek P. The hidden side of plant invasions: the role of genome size. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2015; 205:994-1007. [PMID: 25323486 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2014] [Accepted: 09/11/2014] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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The ecological role of genome size in plant biology, biogeography, and morphology has garnered increasing attention as the methods and technology associated with measuring cytological characteristics have become more reliable and accessible. However, how plant genome size influences plant invasions and at what stage in the invasion this influence occurs have been little explored. Several large-scale analyses of published data have yielded valuable interspecific comparisons, but experimental studies that manipulate environmental factors are needed, particularly below the species level, to fully understand the role that genome size plays in plant invasion. In this review, we summarize the available knowledge, discuss the integration of genome size data into invasion research, and suggest how it can be applied to detect and manage invasive species. We also explore how global climate change could exert selective pressures on plant populations with varying genome sizes, thereby increasing the distribution range and invasiveness of some populations while decreasing others. Finally, we outline avenues for future research, including considerations of large-scale studies of intraspecific variation in genome size of invasive populations, testing the interaction of genome size with other factors in macroecological analyses of invasions, as well as the role this trait may play in plant-enemy interactions.
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- Jan Suda
- Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Průhonice, CZ-252 43, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Benátská 2, Prague 2, CZ-128 01, Czech Republic
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- University of Rhode Island, 1 Greenhouse Road, Kingston, RI, 02881, USA
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- Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB, UK
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- Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Průhonice, CZ-252 43, Czech Republic
- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, Prague, CZ-128 44, Czech Republic
- Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, 7602, South Africa
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Wolkovich EM, Cleland EE. Phenological niches and the future of invaded ecosystems with climate change. AOB PLANTS 2014; 6:plu013. [PMID: 24876295 PMCID: PMC4025191 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plu013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2013] [Accepted: 03/18/2014] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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In recent years, research in invasion biology has focused increasing attention on understanding the role of phenology in shaping plant invasions. Multiple studies have found non-native species that tend to flower distinctly early or late in the growing season, advance more with warming or have shifted earlier with climate change compared with native species. This growing body of literature has focused on patterns of phenological differences, but there is a need now for mechanistic studies of how phenology contributes to invasions. To do this, however, requires understanding how phenology fits within complex functional trait relationships. Towards this goal, we review recent literature linking phenology with other functional traits, and discuss the role of phenology in mediating how plants experience disturbance and stress-via climate, herbivory and competition-across the growing season. Because climate change may alter the timing and severity of stress and disturbance in many systems, it could provide novel opportunities for invasion-depending upon the dominant climate controller of the system, the projected climate change, and the traits of native and non-native species. Based on our current understanding of plant phenological and growth strategies-especially rapid growing, early-flowering species versus later-flowering species that make slower-return investments in growth-we project optimal periods for invasions across three distinct systems under current climate change scenarios. Research on plant invasions and phenology within this predictive framework would provide a more rigorous test of what drives invader success, while at the same time testing basic plant ecological theory. Additionally, extensions could provide the basis to model how ecosystem processes may shift in the future with continued climate change.
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- Elizabeth M Wolkovich
- Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Revisiting Darwin's conundrum reveals a twist on the relationship between phylogenetic distance and invasibility. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013; 110:20627-32. [PMID: 24297938 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310247110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A key goal of invasion biology is to identify the factors that favor species invasions. One potential indicator of invasiveness is the phylogenetic distance between a nonnative species and species in the recipient community. However, predicting invasiveness using phylogenetic information relies on an untested assumption: that both biotic resistance and facilitation weaken with increasing phylogenetic distance. We test the validity of this key assumption using a mathematical model in which a novel species is introduced into communities with varying ecological and phylogenetic relationships. Contrary to what is generally assumed, we find that biotic resistance and facilitation can either weaken or intensify with phylogenetic distance, depending on the mode of interspecific interactions (phenotype matching or phenotype differences) and the resulting evolutionary trajectory of the recipient community. Thus, we demonstrate that considering the mechanisms that drive phenotypic divergence between native and nonnative species can provide critical insight into the relationship between phylogenetic distance and invasibility.
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Are introduced species better dispersers than native species? A global comparative study of seed dispersal distance. PLoS One 2013; 8:e68541. [PMID: 23818991 PMCID: PMC3688602 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2013] [Accepted: 06/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We provide the first global test of the idea that introduced species have greater seed dispersal distances than do native species, using data for 51 introduced and 360 native species from the global literature. Counter to our expectations, there was no significant difference in mean or maximum dispersal distance between introduced and native species. Next, we asked whether differences in dispersal distance might have been obscured by differences in seed mass, plant height and dispersal syndrome, all traits that affect dispersal distance and which can differ between native and introduced species. When we included all three variables in the model, there was no clear difference in dispersal distance between introduced and native species. These results remained consistent when we performed analyses including a random effect for site. Analyses also showed that the lack of a significant difference in dispersal distance was not due to differences in biome, taxonomic composition, growth form, nitrogen fixation, our inclusion of non-invasive introduced species, or our exclusion of species with human-assisted dispersal. Thus, if introduced species do have higher spread rates, it seems likely that these are driven by differences in post-dispersal processes such as germination, seedling survival, and survival to reproduction.
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Kimball S, Lulow ME, Mooney KA, Sorenson QM. Establishment and Management of Native Functional Groups in Restoration. Restor Ecol 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/rec.12022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Sarah Kimball
- BIO SCI - Center for Environmental Biology; University of California, Irvine; Irvine CA 92697-1450 U.S.A
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- BIO SCI - Center for Environmental Biology; University of California, Irvine; Irvine CA 92697-1450 U.S.A
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department; University of California, Irvine; Irvine CA 92697-1450 U.S.A
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Jauni M, Hyvönen T. Interactions between alien plant species traits and habitat characteristics in agricultural landscapes in Finland. Biol Invasions 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-011-0058-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Pyšek P, Jarošík V, Chytrý M, Danihelka J, Kühn I, Pergl J, Tichý L, Biesmeijer JC, Ellis WN, Kunin WE, Settele J. Successful invaders co-opt pollinators of native flora and accumulate insect pollinators with increasing residence time. ECOL MONOGR 2011. [DOI: 10.1890/10-0630.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Beckmann M, Bruelheide H, Erfmeier A. Germination responses of three grassland species differ between native and invasive origins. Ecol Res 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s11284-011-0834-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Jansen F, Ewald J, Zerbe S. Ecological preferences of alien plant species in North-Eastern Germany. Biol Invasions 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-011-9939-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Morozova OV, Borisov MM. Web-oriented geoinformation system on alien plant species of European Russia. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS 2010. [DOI: 10.1134/s2075111710030094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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