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Comparative patterns of plant invasions in the Mediterranean biome. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The objective of this work was to compare and contrast the patterns of alien plant invasions in the world's five mediterranean-climate regions (MCRs). We expected landscape age and disturbance history to have bearing on levels of invasion. We assembled a
Margarita Arianoutsou, Pinelopi Delipetrou, Montserrat Vilà, Panayiotis G Dimitrakopoulos, Laura Celesti-Grapow, Grant Wardell-Johnson, Lesley Henderson, Nicol Fuentes, Eduardo Ugarte-Mendes, Philip W Rundel   +9 more
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Invasive species and natural function in ecology [PDF]

Synthese, 2020
If ecological systems are functionally organised, they can possess functions or malfunctions. Natural function would provide justification for conservationists to act for the protection of current ecological arrangements and control the presence of populations that create ecosystem malfunctions.
openaire   +2 more sources

From settler gardens to digital naturalists: human aesthetic preferences and land use changes facilitate the biogeographical expansion of a wild plant–virus interaction

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Anthropogenic facilitation of wild plants based on aesthetic preferences for particular traits can change the biogeography and ecology of natural communities. We use a mixed‐methods socioecological approach to characterize the ways in which humans interact with a common, widely distributed plant and a generalist viral symbiont that induces an ...
Elizabeth M. Lombardi, Jasmine S. Peters, Juan Pablo Jordán, Alison G. Power   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

First report of Syzygium jambos (Myrtaceae) naturalized in Misiones, Argentina

Bonplandia, 2017
Syzygium jambos (Myrtaceae) is here reported for the first time as a naturalized species in Misiones, Argentina. Also, it is the first mention of the genus Syzygium in the Argentinean flora.
Julio A. Hurrell, Gustavo Delucchi, Héctor A. Keller   +2 more
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Social‐ecological signatures in plant species composition across Swiss cities and urban green space types

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Cities can harbor greater plant diversity than other ecosystems, yet how city sociocultural factors may determine differences in plant composition across equivalent urban green space types remains understudied. Here, we compare plant communities in five main urban greenspace types across three Swiss cities representing the country's French (Geneva ...
Joan Casanelles‐Abella, Sebastian R. Ruile, Ariel Bergamini, Gala Mona Louise Dädlow, Vivien Grothe, Bertrand Fournier, Kilian Perrelet, Marco Moretti   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Differences in growth and competition between plants of a naturalized and an invasive population of Bunias orientalis

Ecology and Evolution
The global shift of species' distributions has led to high numbers of noninvasive naturalized plants and the accumulation of invasive species within ecosystems.
Blaise Binama, Müller Caroline
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Taxonomic perils and pitfalls of dataset assembly in ecology: a case study of the naturalized Asteraceae in Australia

NeoBiota, 2017
The value of plant ecological datasets with hundreds or thousands of species is principally determined by the taxonomic accuracy of their plant names.
Brad R. Murray, Leigh J. Martin, Megan L. Phillips, Petr Pyšek   +3 more
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Hybridization, Introgression, and the Nature of Species Boundaries [PDF]

Journal of Heredity, 2014
Species can be defined as populations that are diagnosably distinct, reproductively isolated, cohesive, or exclusive groups of organisms. Boundaries between species in sympatry are maintained by intrinsic barriers to gene exchange; these boundaries may not be uniform in space, in time, or across the genome.
Richard G, Harrison, Erica L, Larson
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The naturalized flora of Brazil: a step towards identifying future invasive non-native species

, 2015
Human-mediated species introductions are one of the defining factors of the Anthropocene. Non-native species can form invasive populations that affect biodiversity, ecosystem services, or farming.
Rafael Dudeque Zenni (6072179)
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Conservation gap analysis for wild grapevines (Vitis L.) of the Americas

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Wild grapevines (Vitis L.) native to the Americas are ecologically and culturally important plants that are also critical to the global cultivated grape industry as sources of traits for crop innovation, but many of these species are poorly documented and insufficiently conserved.
Daniel Carver, Colin K. Khoury, Anne Frances, Nan McCarry, Luis Diaz‐Garcia, Erin R. Galarneau, Sarah Gora, Megan Haidet, Claire Heinitz, Wesley Knapp, Abby Meyer, Allison Miller, Ray Mims, Surya Sapkota, Carol Spurrier, Jun Wen   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source