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The Alien Plants That Threaten South Africa’s Mountain Ecosystems

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F21%3A00560375" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/21:00560375 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/land10121393" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/land10121393</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10121393" target="_blank" >10.3390/land10121393</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    The Alien Plants That Threaten South Africa’s Mountain Ecosystems

  • Original language description

    The six major mountain ranges in South Africa support critically important ecosystem services-notably water production-and are rich in biodiversity and endemism. These mountains are threatened by detrimental land uses, unsustainable use of natural resources, climate change, and invasive alien plants. Invasive alien plants pose substantial and rapidly increasing problems in mountainous areas worldwide. However, little is known about the extent of plant invasions in the mountains of South Africa. This study assessed the status of alien plants in South African mountains by determining sampling efforts, species compositions and abundances across the six ranges in lower-and higher-elevation areas. Species occurrence records were obtained from three databases that used various approaches (roadside surveys, citizen science observations, focused botanical surveys). Most mountain ranges were found to be undersampled, and species composition assessments were only possible for two ranges. The majority of abundant alien plants in both the lower- and higher-elevation areas were species with broad ecological tolerances and characterised by long distance seed dispersal. These prevalent species were mostly woody plants-particularly tree species in the genera Acacia, Pinus, and Prosopis-that are contributing to the trend of woody plant encroachment across South African mountains. We suggest improved mountain-specific surveys to create a database which could be used to develop management strategies appropriate for each mountain range.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10618 - Ecology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2021

  • Confidentiality

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

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Land

  • ISSN

    2073-445X

  • e-ISSN

    2073-445X

  • Volume of the periodical

    10

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    12

  • Country of publishing house

    CH - SWITZERLAND

  • Number of pages

    19

  • Pages from-to

    1393

  • UT code for WoS article

    000738637200001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85121621058