ArticleEcology letters2021
Persistent soil seed banks promote naturalisation and invasiveness in flowering plants.
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- Niche Dynamics of Alien Plant Species in Mediterranean Europe.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Global patterns in soil seed bank seasonality: a meta-analysis of ecosystem and functional group dynamics.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- The dramatic effects of well-intentioned but ill-designed management strategies in plant biological invasions.Nature plants · 2024Article
- Large and non-spherical seeds are less likely to form a persistent soil seed bank.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Germination patterns and seedling growth of congeneric native and invasiveEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Plant invasion and naturalization are influenced by genome size, ecology and economic use globally.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Difference in Germination Traits between Congeneric Native and Exotic Species May Affect Invasion.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Heat Treatment of Seeds to Control Invasive Common Ragweed (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Reproductive Ecology of the Invasive Alien ShrubPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Assessing Seedbank Longevity and Seed Persistence of the Invasive Tussock GrassPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Long-term seed burial reveals differences in the seed-banking strategies of naturalized and invasive alien herbs.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- An exotic plant successfully invaded as a passenger driven by light availability.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
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Abstract
With globalisation facilitating the movement of plants and seeds beyond the native range, preventing potentially harmful introductions requires knowledge of what drives the successful establishment and spread of alien plants. Here, we examined global-scale relationships between naturalisation success (incidence and extent) and invasiveness, soil seed bank properties (type and densities) and key species traits (seed mass, seed dormancy and life form) for 2350 species of angiosperms. Naturalisation and invasiveness were strongly associated with the ability to form persistent (vs. transient) seed banks but relatively weakly with seed bank densities and other traits. Our findings suggest that seed bank persistence is a trait that better captures the ability to become naturalised and invasive compared to seed traits more widely available in trait databases. Knowledge of seed persistence can contribute to our ability to predict global naturalisation and invasiveness and to identify potentially invasive flowering plants before they are introduced.
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