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Lear L, Hesse E, Buckling A. Disturbances can facilitate prior invasions more than subsequent invasions in microbial communities. Ecol Lett 2024; 27:e14493. [PMID: 39140430 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2024] [Revised: 07/02/2024] [Accepted: 07/26/2024] [Indexed: 08/15/2024]
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Invasions are commonly found to benefit from disturbance events. However, the importance of the relative timing of the invasion and disturbance for invader success and impact on community composition remains uncertain. Here, we experimentally test this by invading a five-species bacterial community on eight separate occasions-four before a disturbance and four after. Invader success and impact on community composition was greatest when the invasion immediately followed the disturbance. However, the subsequent invasions had negligible success or impact. Pre-disturbance, invader success and impact was greatest when the invader was added just before the disturbance. Importantly, however, the first three pre-disturbance invasion events had significantly greater success than the last three post-disturbance invasions. Moreover, these findings were consistent across a range of propagule pressures. Overall, we demonstrate that timing is highly important for both the success and impact on community composition of an invader, with both being lower as time since disturbance progresses.
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- Luke Lear
- Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK
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- Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK
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- Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK
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Li Y, Shen Z. Roles of Dispersal Limit and Environmental Filtering in Shaping the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Invasive Alien Plant Diversity in China. Front Ecol Evol 2020. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.544670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Biological invasion pose a severe threat to global biodiversity, and studies of bioinvasion patterns and the underlying mechanisms provide critical tests to ecological theories. China is a global hotspot of biodiversity and also biological invasions. The understanding of mechanisms for bioinvasion patterns has been limited by inadequacy of data spatial resolution, and lack of a historical perspective. This study compiled the first nation-scale distribution data with a sub-provincial spatial unit (prefecture) for 463 invasive alien plants species (IAPS) recorded in China, as well as their introduction times. The spatiotemporal patterns of species richness of invasive alien plants, including three life forms (annual-biennial, perennial, and woody) were explored, then related the species richness patterns with environmental, social-economic and historical factors. Statistical analyses included quantile regression, generalized linear model (GLM), and hierarchical variation partitioning. The results indicated that: (1) herbaceous species comprised 84% of the 463 IAPS in China; (2) plant introductions into China accelerated since 1800, reaching the maximum rate during 1900–1940. IAPS richness had a closer correlation with the time of newest introduction (R2 = 0.155) than with that of the oldest introduction (R2 = 0.472); (3) IAPS richness decreases with increasing latitude (r = −0.32, P < 0.001) and decreases from the coastal and southern terrestrial borders to inland regions, but doesn’t increase with prefecture size. The three life forms of IAPS showed similar latitudinal patterns of species richness and divergent latitudinal patterns of species percentage. (4) IAPS richness showed significantly positive correlations with thermal climate and a negative relationship with climate seasonality. GLM explained up to 65% of the variation in spatial patterns of IAPS and three life forms; with much less variation explained in the species percentage patterns. The year of the most recent IAPS introduction and the low temperature limit jointly dominated spatial patterns of IAPS richness in China, whereas road density showed little effect. Therefore, global warming and economic globalization play a prominent role in promoting biological invasion in the last few decades, and will continue to drive the trend of plant invasion in China and probably elsewhere.
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Reichenborn MM, Houseman GR, Foster BL. Plant community recovery following Sericea lespedeza (
Lespedeza cuneata
) removal: testing for a soil legacy effect. Restor Ecol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/rec.13185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Molly M. Reichenborn
- Department of Biological Sciences Wichita State University Box 26, 1845 Fairmount Street Wichita KS 67260 U.S.A
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- Department of Biological Sciences Wichita State University Box 26, 1845 Fairmount Street Wichita KS 67260 U.S.A
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Kansas Biological Survey University of Kansas Higuchi Hall, 2101 Constant Avenue Lawrence KS 66047 U.S.A
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Varriano S, Patel K, Lefler L, Kirksey C, Turner A, Moran MD. Effects of Lespedeza cuneata invasion on tallgrass prairie plant and arthropod communities. Biol Invasions 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-020-02310-9] [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]
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Vila JCC, Jones ML, Patel M, Bell T, Rosindell J. Uncovering the rules of microbial community invasions. Nat Ecol Evol 2019; 3:1162-1171. [PMID: 31358951 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0952-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2019] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
Abstract
Understanding the ecological and evolutionary processes determining the outcome of biological invasions has been the subject of decades of research with most work focusing on macro-organisms. In the context of microbes, invasions remain poorly understood despite being increasingly recognized as important. To shed light on the factors affecting the success of microbial community invasions, we perform simulations using an individual-based nearly neutral model that combines ecological and evolutionary processes. Our simulations qualitatively recreate many empirical patterns and lead to a description of five general rules of invasion: (1) larger communities evolve better invaders and better defenders; (2) where invader and resident fitness difference is large, invasion success is essentially deterministic; (3) propagule pressure contributes to invasion success, if and only if, invaders and residents are competitively similar; (4) increasing the diversity of invaders has a similar effect to increasing the number of invaders; and (5) more diverse communities more successfully resist invasion.
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- Jean C C Vila
- Silwood Park Campus, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK. .,Microbial Sciences Institute, West Campus, Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA. .,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
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- Silwood Park Campus, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
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- Silwood Park Campus, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.,Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Silwood Park Campus, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
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- Silwood Park Campus, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
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Tompkins R. Exotic Species Occurrence in Remnant and Restored Eastern Prairie Ecosystems and their Relation to Native Species Richness, Evenness, and Functional Group Abundance. AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 2019. [DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-182.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Robert Tompkins
- Department of Biology, Belmont Abbey College, 100 Belmont-Mt. Holly Rd. Belmont, North Carolina 28012
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King GE, Howeth JG. Propagule pressure and native community connectivity interact to influence invasion success in metacommunities. OIKOS 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.06354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Gabrielle E. King
- Dept of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Alabama, 1106 Bevill Building, Box 870344 Tuscaloosa AL 35487 USA
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- Dept of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Alabama, 1106 Bevill Building, Box 870344 Tuscaloosa AL 35487 USA
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Hovick SM, Whitney KD. Propagule pressure and genetic diversity enhance colonization by a ruderal species: a multi‐generation field experiment. ECOL MONOGR 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Stephen M. Hovick
- Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio 43210 USA
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- Department of Biology University of New Mexico Albuquerque New Mexico 87131 USA
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Walder M, Armstrong JE, Borowicz VA. Limiting similarity, biotic resistance, nutrient supply, or enemies? What accounts for the invasion success of an exotic legume? Biol Invasions 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-018-1835-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Assaeed AM, Al-Rowaily SL, El-Bana MI, Abood AAA, Dar BAM, Hegazy AK. Impact of off-road vehicles on soil and vegetation in a desert rangeland in Saudi Arabia. Saudi J Biol Sci 2018; 26:1187-1193. [PMID: 31516348 PMCID: PMC6733387 DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2018.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2017] [Revised: 04/08/2018] [Accepted: 05/01/2018] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Off-road vehicle driving is considered as main contributor to land degradation in arid regions. This study examined the impact of off-road vehicles (ORV) on soil and vegetation in a natural recreational desert meadow of Raudhat Khuraim, Saudi Arabia. Vegetation canopy cover and plant height away from road tracks were assessed. Also, species density and canopy cover, bare ground cover and soil attributes were assessed in four microhabitats; tracks, inter-tracks, verges, and away from vehicle tracks (undisturbed natural areas). Results show that the cover of forbs and grasses was negatively associated with distance from road verges. It was observed that the height of woody species responded negatively to distance away from tracks. Cover of native species decreased under verge, inter-track and track microhabitats giving more opportunity for weeds to flourish. Bare ground was highest (60.7%) in tracks. ORV impact on soil bulk density was clear with an increase of 38% under tracks compared to soils of undisturbed natural vegetation and a similar decrease in porosity was observed. On the other hand, soil electrical conductivity was significantly higher (5.45 mS cm-1) under disturbance compared to 1.32 mS cm-1 in undisturbed natural vegetation. Organic matter and nitrogen were not affected significantly by ORV disturbance. The results emphasize that managing off-road vehicle driving is essential for conserving native vegetation.
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- Abdulaziz M Assaeed
- Department of Plant Production, King Saud University, PO Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Plant Production, King Saud University, PO Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Port Said University, Egypt
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- Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Plant Production, King Saud University, PO Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt
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Jones ML, Ramoneda J, Rivett DW, Bell T. Biotic resistance shapes the influence of propagule pressure on invasion success in bacterial communities. Ecology 2017; 98:1743-1749. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2016] [Revised: 03/24/2017] [Accepted: 03/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Matt L. Jones
- Department of Life Sciences; Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus; Ascot United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences; Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus; Ascot United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences; Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus; Ascot United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences; Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus; Ascot United Kingdom
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Does tallgrass prairie restoration enhance the invasion resistance of post-agricultural lands? Biol Invasions 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-015-0979-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Intraspecific seed interactions alter seedling emergence of
Lespedeza cuneata
under field conditions. POPUL ECOL 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s10144-015-0495-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Büyüktahtakın İE, Kıbış EY, Cobuloglu HI, Houseman GR, Lampe JT. An age-structured bio-economic model of invasive species management: insights and strategies for optimal control. Biol Invasions 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-015-0893-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Vestergård M, Rønn R, Ekelund F. Above-belowground interactions govern the course and impact of biological invasions. AOB PLANTS 2015; 7:plv025. [PMID: 25854693 PMCID: PMC4417141 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plv025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2014] [Accepted: 03/13/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Introduction of exotic organisms that subsequently become invasive is considered a serious threat to global biodiversity, and both scientists and nature-conservationists attempt to find explanations and means to meet this challenge. This requires a thorough analysis of the invasion phenomenon in an evolutionary and ecological context; in the case of invasive plants, we must have a major focus on above-belowground interactions. Thus, we discuss different theories that have been proposed to explain the course of invasions through interactions between plants and soil organisms. Further, a thorough analysis of invasion must include a temporal context. Invasions will typically include an initial acute phase, where the invader expands its territory and a later chronic phase where equilibrium is re-established. Many studies fail to make this distinction, which is unfortunate as it makes it impossible to thoroughly understand the invasion of focus. Thus, we claim that invasions fall into two broad categories. Some invasions irreversibly change pools and pathways of matter and energy in the invaded system; even if the abundance of the invader is reduced or it is completely removed, the system will not return to its former state. We use earthworm invasion in North America as a particular conspicuous example of invasive species that irreversibly change ecosystems. However, invasions may also be reversible, where the exotic organism dominates the system for a period, but in the longer term it either disappears, declines or its negative impact decreases. If the fundamental ecosystem structure and flows of energy and matter have not been changed, the system will return to a state not principally different from the original.
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- Mette Vestergård
- Terrestrial Ecology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Terrestrial Ecology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Terrestrial Ecology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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Agricultural intensification is critical to meet global food demand, but intensification threatens native species and degrades ecosystems. Sustainable intensification (SI) is heralded as a new approach for enabling growth in agriculture while minimizing environmental impacts. However, the SI literature has overlooked a major environmental risk. Using data from eight countries on six continents, we show that few governments regulate conventionally bred pasture taxa to limit threats to natural areas, even though most agribusinesses promote taxa with substantial weed risk. New pasture taxa (including species, subspecies, varieties, cultivars, and plant-endophyte combinations) are bred with characteristics typical of invasive species and environmental weeds. By introducing novel genetic and endophyte variation, pasture taxa are imbued with additional capacity for invasion and environmental impact. New strategies to prevent future problems are urgently needed. We highlight opportunities for researchers, agribusiness, and consumers to reduce environmental risks associated with new pasture taxa. We also emphasize four main approaches that governments could consider as they build new policies to limit weed risks, including (i) national lists of taxa that are prohibited based on environmental risk; (ii) a weed risk assessment for all new taxa; (iii) a program to rapidly detect and control new taxa that invade natural areas; and (iv) the polluter-pays principle, so that if a taxon becomes an environmental weed, industry pays for its management. There is mounting pressure to increase livestock production. With foresight and planning, growth in agriculture can be achieved sustainably provided that the scope of SI expands to encompass environmental weed risks.
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