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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2023

Elevated compositional change in plant assemblages linked to invasion.

Alessandra R Kortz, Faye Moyes, Vânia R Pivello, Petr Pyšek, Maria Dornelas, Piero Visconti, Anne E Magurran

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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7 authors.

Alessandra R KortzDepartment of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice CZ-25243, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-7473-1987
Faye MoyesCentre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TH, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9687-0593
Vânia R PivelloLEPaC, Ecology Department-IB, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Travessa 14, São Paulo, SP CEP 05508-090, Brazil.
Petr PyšekDepartment of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice CZ-25243, Czech Republic.
Maria DornelasCentre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TH, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2077-7055
Piero ViscontiBiodiversity and Natural Resources Program, Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation group, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1, Laxenburg 2361, Austria.
Anne E MagurranCentre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TH, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alien species are widely linked to biodiversity change, but the extent to which they are associated with the reshaping of ecological communities is not well understood. One possible mechanism is that assemblages where alien species are found exhibit elevated temporal turnover. To test this, we identified assemblages of vascular plants in the BioTIME database for those assemblages in which alien species are either present or absent and used the Jaccard measure to compute compositional dissimilarity between consecutive censuses. We found that, although alien species are typically rare in invaded assemblages, their presence is associated with an increase in the average rate of compositional change. These differences in compositional change between invaded and uninvaded assemblages are not linked to differences in species richness but rather to species replacement (turnover). Rapid compositional restructuring of assemblages is a major contributor to biodiversity change, and as such, our results suggest a role for alien species in bringing this about.

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TracheophytaBiodiversityDatabases, FactualIntroduced Speciesbiodiversity changebiological invasionglobalinvasive speciesspecies replacementturnover

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PMID37161334
PMCPMC10170211

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