Climate change and invasion by intracontinental range-expanding exotic plants: the role of biotic interactions
(2010) In Annals of Botany 105(6). p.843-848- Abstract
- In this Botanical Briefing we describe how the interactions between plants and their biotic environment can change during range-expansion within a continent and how this may influence plant invasiveness. We address how mechanisms explaining intercontinental plant invasions by exotics (such as release from enemies) may also apply to climate-warming-induced range-expanding exotics within the same continent. We focus on above-ground and below-ground interactions of plants, enemies and symbionts, on plant defences, and on nutrient cycling. Range-expansion by plants may result in above-ground and below-ground enemy release. This enemy release can be due to the higher dispersal capacity of plants than of natural enemies. Moreover,... (More)
- In this Botanical Briefing we describe how the interactions between plants and their biotic environment can change during range-expansion within a continent and how this may influence plant invasiveness. We address how mechanisms explaining intercontinental plant invasions by exotics (such as release from enemies) may also apply to climate-warming-induced range-expanding exotics within the same continent. We focus on above-ground and below-ground interactions of plants, enemies and symbionts, on plant defences, and on nutrient cycling. Range-expansion by plants may result in above-ground and below-ground enemy release. This enemy release can be due to the higher dispersal capacity of plants than of natural enemies. Moreover, lower-latitudinal plants can have higher defence levels than plants from temperate regions, making them better defended against herbivory. In a world that contains fewer enemies, exotic plants will experience less selection pressure to maintain high levels of defensive secondary metabolites. Range-expanders potentially affect ecosystem processes, such as nutrient cycling. These features are quite comparable with what is known of intercontinental invasive exotic plants. However, intracontinental range-expanding plants will have ongoing gene-flow between the newly established populations and the populations in the native range. This is a major difference from intercontinental invasive exotic plants, which become more severely disconnected from their source populations. (Less)
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- Morrien, E. ; Engelkes, T. ; Macel, M. ; Meisner, Annelein LU and Van der Putten, W. H.
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- publishing date
- 2010
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- Contribution to journal
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- Climate change, range expansion, exotic plant, plant invasion, plant, defence, trophic interactions, enemy release, EICA, above-ground and, below-ground interactions, nutrient cycling, litter decomposition, enemy release hypothesis, nonnative plants, natural enemies, herbivores, evolution, responses, litter, decomposition, communities, mutualisms
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- Annals of Botany
- volume
- 105
- issue
- 6
- pages
- 843 - 848
- publisher
- Oxford University Press
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- scopus:77953010344
- ISSN
- 0305-7364
- DOI
- 10.1093/aob/mcq064
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- English
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