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Open AccessGrowing on patch boundaries of heterogeneous soils promotes root growth but not the total biomass of naturalized alien and native plants
Soil heterogeneity has been found to promote plant invasion, as many naturalized alien species benefit more from nutrient-rich patches than native species do. However, it remains unclear whether naturalized al...
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Open AccessBiodiversity increases resistance of grasslands against plant invasions under multiple environmental changes
Biodiversity often helps communities resist invasion. However, it is unclear whether this diversity–invasion relationship holds true under environmental changes. Here, we conduct a meta-analysis of 1010 observ...
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Biochar produced from diverse invasive species improves remediation of cadmium-contaminated soils
Biodiversity commonly contributes to ecosystem functioning and provides ecosystem services. Biochar application is frequently used to remediate soils contaminated with heavy metals. As many invasive plant spec...
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Open AccessNegative conspecific plant-soil feedback on alien plants co-growing with natives is partly mitigated by another alien
Naturalized alien and native plants can impact each other directly when they grow next to each other, but also indirectly through their soil legacies. These alien-native interactions can also be modified by th...
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Invading plants remain undetected in a lag phase while they explore suitable climates
Successful alien species may experience a period of quiescence, known as the lag phase, before becoming invasive and widespread. The existence of lags introduces severe uncertainty in risk analyses of aliens a...
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Open AccessPlant invasion and naturalization are influenced by genome size, ecology and economic use globally
Human factors and plant characteristics are important drivers of plant invasions, which threaten ecosystem integrity, biodiversity and human well-being. However, while previous studies often examined a limited...
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Open AccessA slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification
Organismal functional strategies form a continuum from slow- to fast-growing organisms, in response to common drivers such as resource availability and disturbance. However, whether there is synchronisation of...
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Invasive and native plants show different root responses to feedback-mediated soil heterogeneity
Soil heterogeneity can be caused by plant-soil feedback (PSF), but little is known about how this affects plant growth and the distribution of roots. Moreover, as invasive and native plant species frequently d...
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Open AccessWidely naturalized species are not more promiscuous to different nitrogen forms, but benefit more from inorganic nitrogen
Nitrogen (N) has been considered a crucial factor influencing plant invasions. Many studies have assessed responses of alien plants to different N availabilities. However, in natural soils, N comes in differen...
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Open AccessPlants forage for soil patches free of plastic pollution but cannot bag the profits
Microplastics can affect their surroundings physically and chemically, resulting in diverse effects on plant-soil systems. Similar to other substances (e.g. nutrients and water), microplastics in the environme...
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Open AccessA latitudinal gradient in Darwin’s naturalization conundrum at the global scale for flowering plants
Darwin’s naturalization conundrum describes two seemingly contradictory hypotheses regarding whether alien species closely or distantly related to native species should be more likely to naturalize in regional...
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Evolutionary imbalance, climate and human history jointly shape the global biogeography of alien plants
Human activities are causing global biotic redistribution, translocating species and providing them with opportunities to establish populations beyond their native ranges. Species originating from certain glob...
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Plant–soil feedback effects on conspecific and heterospecific successors of annual and perennial Central European grassland plants are correlated
Plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs), soil-mediated plant effects on conspecific or heterospecific successors, are a major driver of vegetation development. It has been proposed that specialist plant antagonists drive ...
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Open AccessBreakdown of self-incompatibility due to genetic interaction between a specific S-allele and an unlinked modifier
Breakdown of self-incompatibility has frequently been attributed to loss-of-function mutations of alleles at the locus responsible for recognition of self-pollen (i.e. the S-locus). However, other potential cause...
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Open AccessThe naturalized vascular flora of Malesia
Major regional gaps exist in the reporting and accessibility of naturalized plant species distribution data, especially within Southeast Asia. Here, we present the Malesian Naturalized Alien Flora database (Ma...
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Open AccessThe impact of land use on non-native species incidence and number in local assemblages worldwide
While the regional distribution of non-native species is increasingly well documented for some taxa, global analyses of non-native species in local assemblages are still missing. Here, we use a worldwide colle...
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Open AccessNumber of simultaneously acting global change factors affects composition, diversity and productivity of grassland plant communities
Plant communities experience impacts of increasing numbers of global change factors (e.g., warming, eutrophication, pollution). Consequently, unpredictable global change effects could arise. However, informati...
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Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism
The redistribution of alien species across the globe accelerated with the start of European colonialism. European powers were responsible for the deliberate and accidental transportation, introduction and esta...
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Open AccessIncreases in multiple resources promote competitive ability of naturalized non-native plants
Invasion by non-native plants is frequently attributed to increased resource availability. Still, our understanding is mainly based on effects of single resources and on plants grown without competition despit...
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The role of phylogenetic relatedness on alien plant success depends on the stage of invasion
Darwin’s naturalization hypothesis predicts successful alien invaders to be distantly related to native species, whereas his pre-adaptation hypothesis predicts the opposite. It has been suggested that dependin...
