The role of adaptive strategies in plant naturalization
Language English Country England, Great Britain Media print-electronic
Document type Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Grant support
I 3757
Austrian Science Fund FWF - Austria
PubMed
29974602
DOI
10.1111/ele.13104
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- Keywords
- Alien species, Grime's CSR theory, functional groups, life form, naturalization extent, naturalization success, plant functional types, universal adaptive strategy theory (UAST),
- MeSH
- Ecology MeSH
- Ecosystem * MeSH
- Phylogeny MeSH
- Plants * MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH
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.
Department of Biosciences Aarhus University 8000 Aarhus C Denmark
Department of Biosciences Durham University South Road Durham DH1 3LE United Kingdom
Ecology Department of Biology University of Konstanz Universitätsstrasse 10 D 78464 Konstanz Germany
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10.6084/m9.figshare.6682730.v1
