Functional differences between native and alien species: a global‐scale comparison

Ordóñez, Alejandro; Wright, Ian J.; Olff, Han

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01739.x

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“…For instance, many invasive plants transform ecosystems both above-and belowground, particularly when they differ in functional traits from native flora and when those traits drive ecosystem processes [36]. Although invasive plants frequently have traits more associated with rapid resource acquisition than those of natives [37], literature syntheses and meta-analyses often find no large or consistent overall differences between native and introduced plant populations in terms of functional traits [38] or effects on belowground processes [39,40]. This is because invasive plant effects depend not only on the types of invader, but also on characteristics of the invaded ecosystem [16].…”

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Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward

Simberloff

Martin

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Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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International audienceStudy of the impacts of biological invasions, a pervasive component of global change, has generated remarkable understanding of the mechanisms and consequences of the spread of introduced populations. The growing field of invasion science, poised at a crossroads where ecology, social sciences, resource management, and public perception meet, is increasingly exposed to critical scrutiny from several perspectives. Although the rate of biological invasions, elucidation of their consequences, and knowledge about mitigation are growing rapidly, the very need for invasion science is disputed. Here, we highlight recent progress in understanding invasion impacts and management, and discuss the challenges that the discipline faces in its science and interactions with society

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Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward

Simberloff

Martin

Genovesi

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Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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“…climate change) perturbations [57]. Computation of functional diversity and dispersion has been widely applied to different types of organisms such as fishes [11], birds [62], plants [63] or insects [64]. This class of methods, however, considers all organisms the same way, and the application to food webs, or more generally to interaction networks, has not been explored in detail.…”

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The meaning of functional trait composition of food webs for ecosystem functioning

Gravel

Albouy

Thuiller

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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One contribution of 17 to a theme issue 'Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in dynamic landscapes'. There is a growing interest in using trait-based approaches to characterize the functional structure of animal communities. Quantitative methods have been derived mostly for plant ecology, but it is now common to characterize the functional composition of various systems such as soils, coral reefs, pelagic food webs or terrestrial vertebrate communities. With the everincreasing availability of distribution and trait data, a quantitative method to represent the different roles of animals in a community promise to find generalities that will facilitate cross-system comparisons. There is, however, currently no theory relating the functional composition of food webs to their dynamics and properties. The intuitive interpretation that more functional diversity leads to higher resource exploitation and better ecosystem functioning was brought from plant ecology and does not apply readily to food webs. Here we appraise whether there are interpretable metrics to describe the functional composition of food webs that could foster a better understanding of their structure and functioning. We first distinguish the various roles that traits have on food web topology, resource extraction (bottom-up effects), trophic regulation (top-down effects), and the ability to keep energy and materials within the community. We then discuss positive effects of functional trait diversity on food webs, such as niche construction and bottom-up effects. We follow with a discussion on the negative effects of functional diversity, such as enhanced competition (both exploitation and apparent) and topdown control. Our review reveals that most of our current understanding of the impact of functional trait diversity on food web properties and functioning comes from an over-simplistic representation of network structure with welldefined levels. We, therefore, conclude with propositions for new research avenues for both theoreticians and empiricists.

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“…The increase of temperature and the light density was triggered the seed bank to germinate. IAPS can endure extreme temperature which makes them competitor to the native vegetation (Hellmann et al 2008;Ordonez et al 2010;Van Kleunen et al 2010). Song et al (2010) studied the effect of extreme high temperatures for the invasive Wedelia trilobata, and found out that in the extreme high temperature condition, W. trilobata experienced less inhibition of relative growth rate (RGR) and biomass production than the native plant Wedelia chinensis.…”

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INVASION OF Acacia decurrens WILLD. AFTER ERUPTION OF MOUNT MERAPI, INDONESIA

Mansyur

2017

BIOTROPIA

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Eruption of Mount Merapi in 2010 caused a dense cover of Acacia decurrens Willd., which is an Invasive Alien Plant Species (IAPS). The dense cover happened in all areas of Mount Merapi National Park (MMNP) in Java, Indonesia. This study was aimed to describe the relationship between major natural disturbance from volcanic eruption in triggering the invasion of A. decurrens in Mount Merapi National Park. Vegetation data were collected using line transect in two different sites. The first site was Cangkringan which was affected by pyroclastic flow and the second site was Selo which was not affected by pyroclastic flow. Distribution patterns and association of A. decurrens with other species in each location was analyzed using ordination analysis of the Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS). Microclimate such as temperature, humidity, light density and soil humidity was recorded in each location. Correlation between species abundance and microclimate data was assessed using Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA). The results showed that the population of A. decurrens was more dominant in Cangkringan than in Selo site. Cangkringan site was impacted with pyroclastic flow during Mount Merapi eruption in 2010, while Selo site was not affected. In Cangkringan, A. decurrens was distributed in clump, while in Selo the plant was randomly distributed. Ordination analysis using NMDS showed that there was positive association between A. decurrens and herbaceous plant. Negative association was observed between A. decurrens and other tree species. CCA analysis showed that temperature and light density was positively correlated with A. decurrens abundance. This study showed that the IAPS invasion in MMNP was correlated with the eruption of Mount Merapi.

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Functional differences between native and alien species: a global‐scale comparison

Cited by 225 publications

References 73 publications

Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward

Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward

The meaning of functional trait composition of food webs for ecosystem functioning

INVASION OF Acacia decurrens WILLD. AFTER ERUPTION OF MOUNT MERAPI, INDONESIA

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