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T1 Which features at home make a plant prone to become invasive?
A1 Galán Díaz, Javier
A1 García de la Riva, Enrique
A1 Martín-Forés, Irene
A1 Vilà, Montserrat
A2 Ecologia
K1 Ecología. Medio ambiente
K1 Climatic niche
K1 Exotic plants
K1 Functional traits
K1 Mediterranean-climate
K1 Source-area approach
AB [EN] Determining the factors that pre-adapt plant species to successfully establish and spread outside of their native ranges constitutes a powerful approach with great potential for management. While this source-area approach accounts for the bias associated with species’ regions of origin, it has been only implemented in pools of species known to be established elsewhere. We argue that, in regions with well-known introduction histories, such as the Mediterranean Biome, the consideration of co-dominant non-introduced species as a control group allows a better understanding of the invasion process. For this purpose, we used occurrence data from GBIF and trait data from previous studies to find predictors of establishment and invasion. We compare the frequency, climatic niche and functional traits of 149 co-dominant plant species in their native region in southern Spain, considering whether they have colonised other Mediterranean-climate regions or not and their level of invasion. We found that large native ranges and diverse climatic niches were the best predictors of species establishment abroad. Moreover, coloniser species had longer bloom periods, higher growth rates and greater resource acquisition, whereas coloniser species becoming invasive had also greater reproductive height and nitrogen use efficiency. This framework has the potential to improve prediction models and management practices to prevent the harmful impacts from species in invaded communities.
PB Pensoft
SN 1619-0033
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10612/16849
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10612/16849
NO Galán Díaz, J., de la Riva, E. G., Martín-Forés, I., y Vilà, M. (2023). Which features at home make a plant prone to become invasive? NeoBiota, 86, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.86.104039
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 17-may-2024