Data di Pubblicazione:
2018
Citazione:
The role of adaptive strategies in plant naturalization / W. Guo, M. van Kleunen, M. Winter, P. Weigelt, A. Stein, S. Pierce, J. Pergl, D. Moser, N. Maurel, B. Lenzner, H. Kreft, F. Essl, W. Dawson, P. Pyšek. - In: ECOLOGY LETTERS. - ISSN 1461-023X. - 21:9(2018 Sep), pp. 1380-1389. [10.1111/ele.13104]
Abstract:
Determining the factors associated with the naturalization of alien species is a central theme in ecology. Here, we tested the usefulness of a metric for quantifying Grime's seminal concept of adaptive strategies - competitors, stress-tolerators and ruderals (CSR) - to explain plant naturalizations worldwide. Using a global dataset of 3004 vascular plant species, and accounting for phylogenetic relatedness and species' native biomes, we assessed the associations between calculated C-, S- and R-scores and naturalization success for species exhibiting different life forms. Across different plant life forms, C-scores were positively and S-scores negatively associated with both the probability of naturalization and the number of regions where the species has naturalized. R-scores had positive effects on the probability of naturalization. These effects of the scores were, however, weak to absent for tree species. Our findings demonstrate the utility of CSR-score calculation to broadly represent, and potentially explain, the naturalization success of plant species.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
alien species; Grime's CSR theory; functional groups; life form; naturalization extent; naturalization success; plant functional types; Universal Adaptive Strategy Theory (UAST)
Elenco autori:
W. Guo, M. van Kleunen, M. Winter, P. Weigelt, A. Stein, S. Pierce, J. Pergl, D. Moser, N. Maurel, B. Lenzner, H. Kreft, F. Essl, W. Dawson, P. Pyšek
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