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Le H, Zhao C, Xiong G, Shen G, Xu W, Deng Y, Xie Z. Disentangling the role of environmental filtering and biotic resistance on alien invasions in a reservoir area. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : A PUBLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2024; 34:e2835. [PMID: 36890673 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2022] [Revised: 01/17/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Large-scale water conservancy projects benefit human life but have modified the landscape and provided opportunities for alien plant invasions. Understanding the environmental (e.g., climate), human-related (e.g., population density, proximity to human activities), and biotic (e.g., native plant, community structure) factors driving invasions is essential in the management of alien plants and biodiversity conservation in areas with intense human pressure. To this end, we investigated the spatial patterns of alien plant species distribution in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA) of China and distinguished the role of the external environment and community characteristics in determining the occurrence of alien plants with differing levels of known invasion impacts in China using random forest analyses and structural equation models. A total of 102 alien plant species belonging to 30 families and 67 genera were recorded, the majority being annual and biennial herbs (65.7%). The results showed a negative diversity-invasibility relationship and supported the biotic resistance hypothesis. Moreover, percentage coverage of native plants was found to interact with native species richness and had a predominant role in resisting alien plant species. We found alien dominance was mainly the result of disturbance (e.g., changes in hydrological regime), which drove native plant loss. Our results also demonstrated that disturbance and temperature were more important for the occurrence of malignant invaders than all alien plants. Overall, our study highlights the importance of restoring diverse and productive native communities in resistance to invasion.
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- Haichuan Le
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing, 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing, 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing, 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing, 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing, 100093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing, 100093, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Daly EZ, Chabrerie O, Massol F, Facon B, Hess MC, Tasiemski A, Grandjean F, Chauvat M, Viard F, Forey E, Folcher L, Buisson E, Boivin T, Baltora‐Rosset S, Ulmer R, Gibert P, Thiébaut G, Pantel JH, Heger T, Richardson DM, Renault D. A synthesis of biological invasion hypotheses associated with the introduction–naturalisation–invasion continuum. OIKOS 2023. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.09645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Ella Z. Daly
- Univ. of Rennes, CNRS, ECOBIO (Ecosystèmes, Biodiversité, Evolution), UMR 6553 Rennes France
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- Univ. de Picardie Jules Verne, UMR 7058 CNRS EDYSAN Amiens Cedex 1 France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Inst. Pasteur de Lille, U1019 – UMR 9017 – CIIL – Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille Lille France
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- CBGP, INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Montpellier Institut Agro, Univ. Montpellier Montpellier France
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- Inst. Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie Marine et Continentale (IMBE), UMR: Aix Marseille Univ., Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD France
- Inst. de Recherche pour la Conservation des zones Humides Méditerranéennes Tour du Valat, Le Sambuc Arles France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Inst. Pasteur de Lille, U1019 – UMR 9017 – CIIL – Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille Lille France
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- Univ. de Poitiers, UMR CNRS 7267 EBI‐Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions, équipe EES Poitiers Cedex 09 France
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- Normandie Univ., UNIROUEN, INRAE, USC ECODIV Rouen France
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- ANSES – Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l'Alimentation, de l'Environnement et du Travail, Laboratoire de la Santé des Végétaux – Unité de Nématologie Le Rheu France
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- Inst. Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie Marine et Continentale (IMBE), UMR: Aix Marseille Univ., Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD France
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- INRAE, UR629 Écologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes, Centre de Recherche Provence‐Alpes‐Côte d'Azur Avignon France
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- Univ. de Picardie Jules Verne, UMR 7058 CNRS EDYSAN Amiens Cedex 1 France
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- UMR 5558 CNRS – Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Bât. Gregor Mendel Villeurbanne Cedex France
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- Univ. of Rennes, CNRS, ECOBIO (Ecosystèmes, Biodiversité, Evolution), UMR 6553 Rennes France
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- Ecological Modelling, Faculty of Biology, Univ. of Duisburg‐Essen Essen Germany
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- Leibniz Inst. of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Berlin Germany
- Technical Univ. of Munich, Restoration Ecology Freising Germany
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Dept. Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch South Africa
- Inst. of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences Průhonice Czech Republic
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- Univ. of Rennes, CNRS, ECOBIO (Ecosystèmes, Biodiversité, Evolution), UMR 6553 Rennes France
- Inst. Universitaire de France Paris Cedex 05 France
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Liu C, Groff T, Anderson E, Brown C, Cahill Jr JF, Paulow L, Bennett JA. Effects of the invasive leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula L.) on plant community structure are altered by management history. NEOBIOTA 2023. [DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.81.89450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
Abstract
Invasive species threaten biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, often causing changes in plant community composition and, thus, the functional traits of that community. Quantifying changes in traits can help us understand invasive species impacts on communities; however, both the invader and the plant community may be responding to the same environmental drivers. In North America, leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula L.) is a problematic invader that reduces plant diversity and forage production for livestock. Its documented effects on plant communities differ amongst studies, however, potentially due to differences in productivity or land management. To identify the potential effects of leafy spurge on plant communities, we quantified leafy spurge abundance, plant species richness, forage production, functional group composition and community weighted mean traits, intensively at a single site and extensively across ten sites differing in management. We then tested how leafy spurge abundance related to these variables as a function of site management activities. Leafy spurge abundance was consistently associated with fewer plant species, reduced forage production and more invasive grass. Community-weighted specific root length also consistently increased with leafy spurge abundance, suggesting that belowground competition may be important in determining co-existence with leafy spurge. Other changes were dependent on management. Native forbs were excluded as leafy spurge became more abundant, but only in grazed sites as these species were already absent from ungrazed sites. Taller plants better persisted in dense leafy spurge patches, but only in grazed sites, consistent with either facilitation of taller species via associational defences or competitive exclusion of shorter species in ungrazed sites and dense leafy spurge patches. These results show that, despite some emergent properties of invasion, management context can alter invasion impacts by causing changes in the plant community and its interactions with the invader.
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Huebner CD. Patterns of invasive plant abundance in disturbed versus undisturbed forests within three land types over 16 years. DIVERS DISTRIB 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Chuan X, Carlyle CN, Bork EW, Chang SX, Hewins DB. Extracellular enzyme activity in grass litter varies with grazing history, environment and plant species in temperate grasslands. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 702:134562. [PMID: 31731122 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2019] [Revised: 09/13/2019] [Accepted: 09/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Long-term livestock grazing (here after 'grazing') affects carbon (C) and nutrient cycling in grassland ecosystems, in part by altering the quantity and quality of litter inputs. Despite their spatial extent and size of carbon and nutrient stocks, the effect of grazing on grassland biogeochemical cycling through the mediation of microbial activity remains poorly understood. To better understand the relationship between grazing and C and nutrient cycling in litter, we conducted an 18-month long study in paired grasslands previously grazed and nongrazed by cattle for 25 years, measuring extracellular enzyme activity (EEA) in various plant litter samples. Litter sources, including seven grass species dominant in one or more subregions and possessing divergent responses to grazing, as well as a community mix of litter sourced from each site, were tested at 15 sites spanning three grassland subregions in Alberta, Canada. We quantified EEAs associated with C cycling (β-glucosidase, β-Cellobiosidase and β-xylosidase), nitrogen (N) cycling (N-acetyl-glucosaminidase) and phosphorus (P) cycling (phosphatase). In general, litter in grasslands exposed to grazing had greater activity of C-liberating and P-liberating enzyme (β-xylosidase and phosphatase) in the mesic grasslands of the Foothills Fescue subregion (P ≤ 0.10). Observed EEAs were strongly mediated by litter type, with greater EEAs in litter of grass species known to increase in abundance under long-term grazing, including Poa pratensis in the Foothills Fescue subregion, and Bouteloua gracilis in arid grasslands of the Mixedgrass Prairie. In contrast, Pascopyrum smithii litter had the lowest enzyme activities in all subregions. We also found that EEAs changed through time (0-18 months) with consistently high levels detected at 1 (June 2014), 6 (October 2014) and 18 months (October 2015) after placement. Overall, these findings indicate grazing enhances EEA, and thus C and N-cycling, in northern temperate grasslands.
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- Xiaozhu Chuan
- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2P5, Canada
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- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2P5, Canada
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- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2P5, Canada
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- Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H1, Canada
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- Biology Department, Fogarty Life Science, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island 02908, USA.
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Coffey V, Otfinowski R. Legacy effects of afforestation on prairie plant and seed bank communities in a northern Canadian prairie. Basic Appl Ecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2018.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Invasive tunicate restructures invertebrate community on fishing grounds and a large protected area on Georges Bank. Biol Invasions 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-017-1517-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Bork EW, Hewins DB, Tannas S, Willms WD. Festuca campestris
density and defoliation regulate abundance of the rhizomatous grass Poa pratensis
in a fallow field. Restor Ecol 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/rec.12532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Edward W. Bork
- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science; University of Alberta, 410 Agriculture/Forestry Centre; Edmonton Alberta T6G 2P5 Canada
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- Biology Department; Rhode Island College, 251 Fogarty Life Science Building; Providence RI 02908 U.S.A
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- Tannas Conservation Services, Box 31; Cremona Alberta T0M 0R0 Canada
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- Lethbridge Research Center; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 5403 1st Avenue South; Lethbridge Alberta T1J 4P4 Canada
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Halarewicz A, Pruchniewicz D, Kawałko D. Black Cherry (Prunus serotina) Invasion in a Scots Pine Forest: Relationships between Soil Properties and Vegetation. POLISH JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 2017. [DOI: 10.3161/15052249pje2017.65.2.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Aleksandra Halarewicz
- Department of Botany and Plant Ecology, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, pl. Grunwaldzki 24a, 50-363 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Botany and Plant Ecology, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, pl. Grunwaldzki 24a, 50-363 Wrocław, Poland
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- Institute of Soil Science and Environmental Protection, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Grunwaldzka 53, 50-357 Wroclaw, Poland
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Pagnucco KS, Ricciardi A. Disentangling the influence of abiotic variables and a non-native predator on freshwater community structure. Ecosphere 2015. [DOI: 10.1890/es15-00371.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Bauer JT, Reynolds HL. Restoring native understory to a woodland invaded byEuonymus fortunei: multiple factors affect success. Restor Ecol 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/rec.12285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Jonathan T. Bauer
- Department of Biology; Indiana University; 1001 E. 3rd Street Bloomington IN 47405 U.S.A
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- Department of Biology; Indiana University; 1001 E. 3rd Street Bloomington IN 47405 U.S.A
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Fenesi A, Geréd J, Meiners SJ, Tóthmérész B, Török P, Ruprecht E. Does disturbance enhance the competitive effect of the invasive Solidago canadensis on the performance of two native grasses? Biol Invasions 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-015-0954-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Rauschert ESJ, Shea K, Goslee S. Plant community associations of two invasive thistles. AOB PLANTS 2015; 7:plv065. [PMID: 26038126 PMCID: PMC4571105 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plv065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2014] [Accepted: 05/11/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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In order to combat the growing problems associated with biological invasions, many researchers have focused on identifying which communities are most vulnerable to invasion by exotic species. However, once established, invasive species can significantly change the composition of the communities that they invade. The first step to disentangling the direction of causality is to discern whether a relationship with other vegetation exists at all. Carduus nutans and C. acanthoides are similar invasive thistles, which have caused substantial economic damage worldwide. We assessed the associations between the thistles and the standing flora in four sites in central Pennsylvania in which they co-occur. After sampling nearly 2000 plots of 1 m(2), we used partial Mantel tests to assess the differences in vegetation between thistle and non-thistle plots after accounting for location, and non-metric multidimensional scaling to visualize differences among plots and sites. We found significant differences in community composition in plots with and without Carduus thistles. The non-native species Sisymbrium officinale and Coronilla varia were consistently associated with the presence of Carduus thistles. Several species were associated with areas that were free of Carduus thistles, including an important non-native pasture species (Trifolium repens). We found no evidence for differences in composition between plots with C. nutans versus C. acanthoides, suggesting that they have similar associations with the vegetation community. We conclude that even at the within-field scale, areas invaded by Carduus thistles have different vegetation associations than uninvaded areas, allowing us to target future research about the role of vegetation structure in resisting and responding to invasion.
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- Emily S J Rauschert
- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA IGDP in Ecology and Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- IGDP in Ecology and Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- USDA-ARS, Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Tannas S, Hewins DB, Bork EW. Isolating the role of soil resources, defoliation, and interspecific competition on early establishment of the late successional bunchgrassFestuca campestris. Restor Ecol 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/rec.12207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Steven Tannas
- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science; University of Alberta; 410 Agriculture/Forestry Centre Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2P5
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- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science; University of Alberta; 410 Agriculture/Forestry Centre Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2P5
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- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science; University of Alberta; 410 Agriculture/Forestry Centre Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2P5
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