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Invasive plant species and invasible ecosystems.
Marcel Rejmánek,O. T. Sandlund,P. J. Schei,Å. Viken +3 more
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The article was published on 1999-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 142 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biological dispersal & Invasive species.read more
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Naturalization and invasion of alien plants: concepts and definitions
David M. Richardson,Petr Pyšek,Marcel Rejmánek,Michael G. Barbour,F. Dane Panetta,Carol J. West +5 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that the term ‘invasive’ should be used without any inference to environmental or economic impact, and terms like ‘pests’ and ‘weeds’ are suitable labels for the 50–80% of invaders that have harmful effects.
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A meta‐analysis of trait differences between invasive and non‐invasive plant species
TL;DR: It is concluded that invasive alien species had higher values for those traits related to performance than non-invasive species, suggesting that it might become possible to predict future plant invasions from species traits.
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Plant invasions--the role of mutualisms.
TL;DR: The view that tightly coevolved, plant‐vertebrate seed dispersal systems are extremely rare is supported and perspectives on mutualisms in screening protocols will improve the ability to predict whether a given plant species could invade a particular habitat.
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Plant invasions : merging the concepts of species invasiveness and community invasibility
David M. Richardson,Petr Pyšek +1 more
TL;DR: Concepts, hypotheses and theories reviewed here can be linked to the naturalization-invasion continuum concept, which relates invasion processes with a sequence of environmental and biotic barriers that an introduced species must negotiate to become casual, naturalized and invasive.
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Biological invasions: recommendations for U.S. policy and management.
David M. Lodge,Susan L. Williams,Hugh J. MacIsaac,Keith R. Hayes,Brian Leung,Sarah H. Reichard,Richard N. Mack,Peter B. Moyle,Maggie Smith,David A. Andow,James T. Carlton,Anthony J. McMichael +11 more
TL;DR: The Ecological Society of America recommends that the federal government take the following six actions: use new information and practices to better manage commercial and other pathways to reduce the transport and release of potentially harmful species, and establish a National Center for Invasive Species Management.
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Human alteration of the global nitrogen cycle: sources and consequences
Peter M. Vitousek,John D. Aber,Robert W. Howarth,Gene E. Likens,Pamela A. Matson,David W. Schindler,William H. Schlesinger,David Tilman +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of available scientific evidence shows that human alterations of the nitrogen cycle have approximately doubled the rate of nitrogen input into the terrestrial nitrogen cycle, with these rates still increasing; increased concentrations of the potent greenhouse gas N 2O globally, and increased concentration of other oxides of nitrogen that drive the formation of photochemical smog over large regions of Earth.
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
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Biological invasions by exotic grasses, the grass/fire cycle, and global change
TL;DR: Biological invasions into wholly new regions are a consequence of a far reaching but underappreciated component of global environmental change, the human-caused breakdown of biogeographic barriers to species dispersal.
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On the origin of the species by means of natural selection
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Disturbance, Diversity, and Invasion: Implications for Conservation
TL;DR: The natural disturbance regime is now unlikely to persist within conser- vation area since fragmentation and human intervention have usually modified physical and biotic conditionx Active management decisions must now be made on what distur- bance regime is require and this requires decisions on what species are to be encouraged or discouraged.