Contrasting patterns in the invasions of European terrestrial and freshwater habitats by alien plants, insects and vertebrates

0348957 - BÚ 2011 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Pyšek, Petr - Bacher, S. - Chytrý, M. - Jarošík, Vojtěch - Wild, Jan - Celesti-Grapow, L. - Gassó, N. - Kenis, M. - Lambdon, P. W. - Nentwig, W. - Pergl, Jan - Roques, A. - Sádlo, Jiří - Solarz, W. - Vila, M. - Hulme, P. E.
Contrasting patterns in the invasions of European terrestrial and freshwater habitats by alien plants, insects and vertebrates.
Global Ecology and Biogeography. Roč. 19, č. 3 (2010), s. 317-331. ISSN 1466-822X. E-ISSN 1466-8238
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LC06073
Grant - others:ALARM(XE) GOCE-CT-2003-506675; European Comission(XE) SSPI-CT-2003-511202
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60050516
Keywords : biological invasions * habitat affinities * Europe
Subject RIV: EF - Botanics
Impact factor: 5.273, year: 2010

There are two ecologically distinct groups of alien species (plants and insects versus vertebrates) with strikingly different habitat affinities. Wetland and riparian habitats support relatively high numbers of alien insect and plant species. Invasions by vertebrates are more evenly distributed among habitats, with aquatic and riparian, woodland and cultivated land most invaded. Invasions by these two contrasting groups are complementary in terms of habitat use, which makes an overall assessment of habitat invasions in Europe possible. Since numbers of naturalized species in habitats are correlated among taxa within these two groups, the data collected for one group of vertebrates, for example, could be used to estimate the habitat-specific numbers of alien species for other vertebrate groups with reasonable precision, and the same holds true for insects and plants.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0189331