Review of ‘The Plant List, a working list of all plant species’

Kalwij, Jesse M.

doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01407.x

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“…To standardize scientific names, each naturalized plant inventory was compared to The Plant List (2015), the most comprehensive working list of all plant species (Kalwij 2012). The taxonomic standardization was done using the R (R Core Team 2014) package Taxonstand (Cayuela & Oksanen 2014).…”

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Naturalized alien flora of the world

Pyšek¹,

Pergl²,

Essl³

et al. 2017

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(2017): Naturalized alien flora of the world: species diversity, taxonomic and phylogenetic patterns, geographic distribution and global hotspots of plant invasion. Using the recently built Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database, containing data on the distribution of naturalized alien plants in 483 mainland and 361 island regions of the world, we describe patterns in diversity and geographic distribution of naturalized and invasive plant species, taxonomic, phylogenetic and life-history structure of the global naturalized flora as well 204 Preslia 89: 203-274, 2017 as levels of naturalization and their determinants. The mainland regions with the highest numbers of naturalized aliens are some Australian states (with New South Wales being the richest on this continent) and several North American regions (of which California with 1753 naturalized plant species represents the world's richest region in terms of naturalized alien vascular plants). England, Japan, New Zealand and the Hawaiian archipelago harbour most naturalized plants among islands or island groups. These regions also form the main hotspots of the regional levels of naturalization, measured as the percentage of naturalized aliens in the total flora of the region. Such hotspots of relative naturalized species richness appear on both the western and eastern coasts of North America, in north-western Europe, South Africa, south-eastern Australia, New Zealand, and India. High levels of island invasions by naturalized plants are concentrated in the Pacific, but also occur on individual islands across all oceans. The numbers of naturalized species are closely correlated with those of native species, with a stronger correlation and steeper increase for islands than mainland regions, indicating a greater vulnerability of islands to invasion by species that become successfully naturalized. South Africa, India, California, Cuba, Florida, Queensland and Japan have the highest numbers of invasive species. Regions in temperate and tropical zonobiomes harbour in total 9036 and 6774 naturalized species, respectively, followed by 3280 species naturalized in the Mediterranean zonobiome, 3057 in the subtropical zonobiome and 321 in the Arctic. The New World is richer in naturalized alien plants, with 9905 species compared to 7923 recorded in the Old World. While isolation is the key factor driving the level of naturalization on islands, zonobiomes differing in climatic regimes, and socioeconomy represented by per capita GDP, are central for mainland regions. The 11 most widely distributed species each occur in regions covering about one third of the globe or more in terms of the number of regions where they are naturalized and at least 35% of the Earth's land surface in terms of those regions' areas, with the most widely distributed species Sonchus oleraceus occuring in 48% of the regions that cover 42% of the world area. Other widely distributed species are Ricinus communis, Oxalis corniculata, Portulaca oleracea, Eleusine indica, Chenopodium album, Cap...

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Section: Compilation Of Data On Naturalized Alien Floras: Glonaf Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Naturalized alien flora of the world

Pyšek¹,

Pergl²,

Essl³

et al. 2017

Preslia

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“…Although sampling in the dry season is often challenging, in many plots grasses still had sufficient numbers of infloresences and other recognisable plant parts to allow for a reliable identification. For all species names we adoped the accepted taxonomical status as listed in The Plant List (Kalwij, 2012).…”

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Some ecological side-effects of chemical and physical bush clearing in a southern African rangeland ecosystem

Haussmann

Kalwij

Bezuidenhout

2016

South African Journal of Botany

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1 Highlights Some ecological side-effects of bush thickening treatments were evaluated  No effect on non-targeted tree species was found 24-36 months post treatment  Both treatments were colonized by undesired sagebush Pechuel-loeschea leubnitziae  Perennial grass species were particularly abundant in physically treated sites  A side-effect of arborocide treatment: facilitating fast-growing, undesired species 2 AbstractBush thickening is a major concern to farmers of arid and semi-arid rangelands; reactive intervention remains the norm. Here we compared some of the short-term ecological implications of chemical and physical removal of the bush encroacher Acacia mellifera in the central Highland savanna of Namibia. We selected 21 invaded sites, 7 had been chemically cleared, 7 had been physically cleared and 7 had never been cleared. From each site, we recorded grass species composition, as well as the densities of A. mellifera, the undesired perennial shrub Pechuel-loeschea leubnitziae and a non-targeted tree A. erioloba, 24-30 months post-treatment.We fitted one-way ANOVA models to test for the effect of treatment on grass species richness and density of targeted and non-targeted tree species. A Canonical Correspondence Analysis was used to determine how treatment affected grass species composition. While both treatments reduced the density of the bush encroacher, P. leubnitziae effectively replaced A. mellifera in chemically treated sites, where die-back presumably happened faster and nutrient and water competition decreased more rapidly. In such sites, perennial grass species were effectively outcompeted by P. leubnitiziae.

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“…The Plant List 15 , the most comprehensive working list of all plant species 32 . This taxonomic standardization was done with the help of the R 33 package Taxonstand 34 .…”

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