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Scale dependent relationships between native plant diversity and the invasion of croftonweed (Eupatorium adenophorum) in southwest China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Zhijun Lu  and
Keping Ma
Zhijun Lu
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Quantitative Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Haidian District, Beijing 100093, China; Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquanlu (Jia), Shijingshan District, Beijing 100039, China
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Abstract

Croftonweed is an invasive plant in southwest China. We examined the relationships between its invasion patterns and native plant diversity at different spatio-temporal scales. At the 25 m2 scale, invasion success was negatively correlated with native plant diversity, indicating that resource availability might be the dominant factor regulating community invasibility. At the 400-m2 scale, both negative and positive relationships were detected, possibly identifying a spatial scale threshold where extrinsic environmental factors became more important to community invasibility. At the vegetation province scale, variations in physical environment outweighed the importance of intrinsic biotic factors and positive relationships between diversity and invader success were found. Native plant diversity also inhibited croftonweed over the course of community succession and at the early stages of invasion at local spatial scales. However, the changing relationship might be an artifact of sampling at different spatial scales.

Keywords

Croftonweed, Eupatorium adenophorum Sprengel EUPADBiodiversitybiological invasionscommunity successioninvasive speciesspatio-temporal scale
Type
Weed Biology and Ecology
Information
Weed Science , Volume 53 , Issue 5 , October 2005 , pp. 600 - 604
Copyright
Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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