Similarity of introduced plant species to native ones facilitates naturalization, but differences enhance invasion success

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F18%3A00101633" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/18:00101633 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/67985939:_____/18:00503348 RIV/00216208:11310/18:10394926
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06995-4" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06995-4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06995-4" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41467-018-06995-4</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Similarity of introduced plant species to native ones facilitates naturalization, but differences enhance invasion success
Original language description
The search for traits associated with plant invasiveness has yielded contradictory results, in part because most previous studies have failed to recognize that different traits are important at different stages along the introduction-naturalization-invasion continuum. Here we show that across six different habitat types in temperate Central Europe, naturalized non-invasive species are functionally similar to native species occurring in the same habitat type, but invasive species are different as they occupy the edge of the plant functional trait space represented in each habitat. This pattern was driven mainly by the greater average height of invasive species. These results suggest that the primary determinant of successful establishment of alien species in resident plant communities is environmental filtering, which is expressed in similar trait distributions. However, to become invasive, established alien species need to be different enough to occupy novel niche space, i.e. the edge of trait space.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10700 - Other natural sciences

Project
<a href="/en/project/GB14-36079G" target="_blank" >GB14-36079G: Plant diversity analysis and synthesis centre (PLADIAS)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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