South Africa as a donor of naturalized and invasive plants to other parts of the world

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/20:10425535

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32394-3_26" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32394-3_26</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32394-3_26" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-32394-3_26</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

South Africa as a donor of naturalized and invasive plants to other parts of the world

Original language description

We provide the first assessment of South African native vascular plants as naturalised and invasive species in other parts of the world. Results show that 1093 South African native plant taxa have been recorded as naturalised, but for only 79 of these is there strong and unequivocal evidence of invasiveness in natural or semi-natural ecosystems. Thirty-five taxa have naturalised in more than 100 regions according to GloNAF database, and six taxa (all grasses—family Poaceae) are naturalised in more than 200 regions. However, of these, only 12 (34.2%) are recorded as invasive, and only nine fulfil the more conservative definition of invasive. These figures indicate that to be widely distributed does not automatically translate into being a strong invader, and that taxa that are extremely successful as invaders in some regions only succeed in specific environmental and geographic settings, and many of them are not widespread alien plants. Grasses are over-represented among both naturalised and invasive South African plant exports: 15% of naturalised species and 23% of invasive species are grasses. Temperate Asia and Europe are net donors of naturalised plants to South Africa, but Australasia and the Pacific Islands have received many more naturalised plants than they have donated to South Africa. Of taxa native to South Africa recorded as unequivocally invasive outside of cultivation elsewhere, 65% occur in Australia.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GX19-28807X" target="_blank" >GX19-28807X: Macroecology of plant invasions: global synthesis across habitats (SynHab)</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Biological Invasions in South Africa

ISBN

978-3-030-32393-6

Number of pages of the result

27

Pages from-to

759-785

Number of pages of the book

975

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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