ArticleEcology letters2016
What it takes to invade grassland ecosystems: traits, introduction history and filtering processes.
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- Dimensions of invasiveness: Links between local abundance, geographic range size, and habitat breadth in Europe's alien and native floras.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Ecological Specialization and Rarity of Arable Weeds: Insights from a Comprehensive Survey in France.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges.Global ecology and biogeography : a journal of macroecology · 2020Article
- Environmental gradients influence differences in leaf functional traits between native and non-native plants.Oecologia · 2019Article
- Habitat properties and plant traits interact as drivers of non-native plant species' seed production at the local scale.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Taxonomic affinity, habitat and seed mass strongly predict seed desiccation response: a boosted regression trees analysis based on 17 539 species.Annals of botany · 2018Article
- Will climate change increase hybridization risk between potential plant invaders and their congeners in Europe?Diversity & distributions · 2017Article
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Whether the success of alien species can be explained by their functional or phylogenetic characteristics remains unresolved because of data limitations, scale issues and weak quantifications of success. Using permanent grasslands across France (50 000 vegetation plots, 2000 species, 130 aliens) and building on the Rabinowitz's classification to quantify spread, we showed that phylogenetic and functional similarities to natives were the most important correlates of invasion success compared to intrinsic functional characteristics and introduction history. Results contrasted between spatial scales and components of invasion success. Widespread and common aliens were similar to co-occurring natives at coarse scales (indicating environmental filtering), but dissimilar at finer scales (indicating local competition). In contrast, regionally widespread but locally rare aliens showed patterns of competitive exclusion already at coarse scale. Quantifying trait differences between aliens and natives and distinguishing the components of invasion success improved our ability to understand and potentially predict alien spread at multiple scales.
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