The influence of light habitat on the physiology, biomass allocation, and fecundity of the invasive shrub Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii, Caprifoliaceae)1

Lieurance, Deah; Landsbergen, Kim J.

doi:10.3159/torrey-d-15-00056.1

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“…The invasive species in this study all tend to have greater abundance at forest edges than interiors. Previous studies on honeysuckle have shown that it produces abundant fruit and seed in high light environments but still produces fruit and seed in forest interiors [32], and that density is positively related to amount of edge in the landscape [58]. Similar relationships of greater abundance along forest edges have been observed for autumn olive [59] and privet [60,61], and all of these species can dominate the understory and reduce diversity and abundance of native species.…”

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“…We selected three invasive woody species currently impacting eastern deciduous forests and three native woody species that occupy the forest understory. Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive), Ligustrum obtusifolium (border privet), and Lonicera maackii (Amur honeysuckle) share many traits of other invasive species such as high fecundity, germination rates, and relative growth rates, moderate to high shade tolerance, and the ability to grow in low nutrition and variable soil moisture conditions [31][32][33]. They have also benefited from an apparent release from natural enemies and are potentially allelopathic [34][35][36][37].…”

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Native and Invasive Woody Species Differentially Respond to Forest Edges and Forest Successional Age

Dillon

Lieurance

Hiatt

et al. 2018

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Forest fragmentation can promote non-native plant invasions by increasing invasive plant seed dispersal and resource availability along edges. These effects can vary based on forest age and may be influenced by differences in traits of native and invasive plant species. To determine how native versus invasive plant species respond to forest edges and forest successional age, we experimentally evaluated germination, survival, and growth of three native and three invasive woody plant species in eastern USA forests. Across all species, increasing distance from the edge resulted in more germination and less seedling growth, but had no effect on seedling survival. Generally, seedling growth was greater in younger forests and invasive species outperformed native species; however, there were significant species-specific differences in performance. For example, among native species, spicebush had poor growth performance but high survival, while redbud had low germination but high growth performance and survival. By contrast, the invasive privet and autumn olive produced more biomass with high relative growth rates, and autumn olive had exceptionally high germination but the lowest survival. Overall, our results suggest that while there are some general characteristics of invasive species, species-specific traits may better inform management strategies and improve predictions about biological invasions along forest edges.

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Native and Invasive Woody Species Differentially Respond to Forest Edges and Forest Successional Age

Dillon

Lieurance

Hiatt

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“…Although few studies have assessed functional traits in the field (e.g. Kuehne et al 2014;Lieurance and Landsbergen 2016;Heberling and Mason 2018) most of them covered few habitat types and treated resource levels discretely. For that reason there is a lack of gradient studies examining trait responses in multiple comparable sites along major environmental gradients (Hulme and Bernard-Verdier 2018).…”

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Functional traits of acquisitive invasive woody species differ from conservative invasive and native species

Dyderski¹,

Jagodziński²

2019

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One of the most important sources of invasiveness is species’ functional traits and their variability. However there are still few studies on invasive tree species traits conducted along resource gradients that allow for a comparison of acquisitive and conservative strategies. We aimed to assess the differences in trait variation among native alien conservative and alien acquisitive tree species along resource availability gradients (soil fertility and light availability) and to assess the traits variability of the species studied along resources availability gradients. Our study compared invasive tree species in Europe (Prunusserotina Ehrh. Quercusrubra L. and Robiniapseudoacacia L.) with their native competitors (Acerpseudoplatanus L. A.platanoides L. Quercuspetraea (Matt.) Liebl. and Fagussylvatica L.). The study was conducted on 1329 seedlings and saplings collected in a system of 372 study plots in W Poland. For each individual we assessed leaf stem and root mass ratios total biomass leaf area ratio specific leaf area and projected leaf area. Two invasive species (P.serotina and R.pseudoacacia) represented a more acquisitive strategy than native species – along litter pH and light availability gradients these species had higher leaf mass fraction specific leaf area and leaf area ratio. In contrast Q.rubra had the highest total biomass and root mass fraction. Alien species usually had higher coefficients of variation of studied traits. This suggests that relatively high projected leaf area as a way of filling space and outcompeting native species may be reached in two ways – biomass allocation to leaves and control of leaf morphology or by overall growth rate. High variability of invasive species traits also suggests randomness in seedling survival which similarly to the neutral theory of invasion highlights the necessity of including randomness in modelling biological invasions.

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“…Although consumption of Amur honeysuckle berries by white‐footed mice has not been adequately demonstrated in the field, we observed several individuals consuming berries in this study. Amur honeysuckle does produce many berries during the fall (as many as 7,300 berries have been recorded on a single shrub; Lieurance ), which may provide an abundant food source for mice using invaded habitats. Even so Amur honeysuckle berries are considered nutritionally poor (Ingold and Craycraft ).…”

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Effects of Amur honeysuckle invasion and removal on white‐footed mice

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Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) is an exotic shrub that has invaded many forests throughout the United States. Although effects on native plants and birds have been documented, little is known about the influence of Amur honeysuckle on small mammals. We examined the short‐term effects of removing Amur honeysuckle and other exotic shrubs on the abundance of white‐footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus; a generalist rodent species found throughout North America), in 6 hardwood forests of Indiana. We cut and removed exotic shrubs from treatment (removal) areas in fall and winter of 2010–2011. We used mark‐release‐recapture (MRR) methods by trapping mice for 6 nights in the summer of 2010 and 4 nights in the fall of 2010 (before exotic shrub removals), and again during the summer and fall of 2011 (after removals). For both trapping seasons, mean abundance of mice increased from 2010 to 2011 in both removal and reference areas, but the magnitude of increase within removal areas was substantially greater (permutation P ≤ 0.05 for removal areas). For the feasible subset of mice, we calculated mean squared distance (MSD) as an index of space use and investigated how environmental variables influenced space use by individuals. For mice captured in the summer, percent cover of leaf litter was the most important predictor (relative variable importance = 0.94) of MSD, whereas canopy cover and mouse abundance were the most important predictors of MSD for mice captured in the fall (canopy cover relative variable importance = 0.71, mouse abundance relative variable importance = 0.74). Our results indicate that management efforts to control the spread of Amur honeysuckle and other exotic shrubs may lead to short‐term increases in the abundance of generalist rodents such as white‐footed mice. Furthermore, factors such as leaf litter cover, canopy cover, and abundance may influence space use by individual mice within invaded habitats. © 2014 The Wildlife Society.

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The influence of light habitat on the physiology, biomass allocation, and fecundity of the invasive shrub Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii, Caprifoliaceae)1

Cited by 20 publications

References 52 publications

Native and Invasive Woody Species Differentially Respond to Forest Edges and Forest Successional Age

Native and Invasive Woody Species Differentially Respond to Forest Edges and Forest Successional Age

Functional traits of acquisitive invasive woody species differ from conservative invasive and native species

Effects of Amur honeysuckle invasion and removal on white‐footed mice

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