Why are invasive plants successful?

0576840 - BÚ 2024 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Gioria, Margherita - Hulme, D. M. - Richardson, David Mark - Pyšek, Petr
Why are invasive plants successful?
Annual Review of Plant Biology. Roč. 74, May (2023), s. 635-670. ISSN 1543-5008. E-ISSN 1545-2123
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GX19-28807X; GA ČR(CZ) GA19-20405S; GA MŠMT(CZ) EF18_053/0017850
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : plant invasion * invasion success * species traits
OECD category: Ecology
Impact factor: 23.9, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-070522-071021

Plant invasions, a byproduct of globalization, are increasing worldwide. Because of their ecological and economic impacts, considerable efforts have been made to understand and predict the success of non-native plants. Numerous frameworks, hypotheses, and theories have been advanced to conceptualize the interactions of multiple drivers and context dependence of invasion success with the aim of achieving robust explanations with predictive power. We review these efforts from a community-level perspective rather than a biogeographical one, focusing on terrestrial systems, and explore the roles of intrinsic plant properties in determining species invasiveness, as well as the effects of biotic and abiotic conditions in mediating ecosystem invasibility (or resistance) and ecological and evolutionary processes.We also consider the fundamental influences of human-induced changes at scales ranging from local to global in triggering, promoting, and sustaining plant invasions and discuss how these changes could alter future invasion trajectories.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0348875