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Article

Potential Range Expansion of Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica Thunb.) in Southern U.S. Forestlands

by
Hsiao-Hsuan Wang
1,*,
Carissa L. Wonkka
2,
William E. Grant
1 and
William E. Rogers
2
1
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
2
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Forests 2012, 3(3), 573-590; https://doi.org/10.3390/f3030573
Submission received: 11 June 2012 / Revised: 25 June 2012 / Accepted: 20 July 2012 / Published: 27 July 2012
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exotic and Invasive Plant Species Impacting Forests)
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Japanese honeysuckle is one of the most aggressive invasive vines in forestlands of the southern United States. We analyzed field data collected by the U.S. Forest Service to identify potential determinants of invasion and to predict likelihood of further invasion under a variety of possible management strategies. Results of logistic regression, which classified 74% of the field plots correctly with regard to species presence and absence, indicated probability of invasion is correlated positively with adjacency to water bodies, temperature, site productivity, species diversity, and private land ownership, and is correlated negatively with slope, stand age, artificial regeneration, distance to the nearest road, and fire disturbance. Habitats most at risk to further invasion under current conditions occur throughout Mississippi, stretching northward across western Tennessee and western Kentucky, westward across southern Arkansas, eastward across north-central Alabama, and also occur in several counties scattered within Virginia. Invasion likelihoods could be increased by global climate change and reduced most by conversion to public land ownership, followed by artificial regeneration, and fire disturbance. While conversion of land ownership may not be feasible, this result suggests the opportunity for decreasing the likelihood of invasions on private lands via using selected management practices.

Graphical Abstract

1. Introduction

Biotic invasion has become a critical issue in most ecosystems word-wide. Non-native species invasions can lead to numerous adverse consequences for native systems. Invasion can modify ecological properties, processes, and functions [1]. Invasive plants can compete with native species for resources, disrupt evolutionary processes and hybridize with natives, reduce system productivity, alter disturbance regimes, and threaten native biodiversity [1,2,3,4,5]. Additionally, invasive species can impose large economic costs, through loss of economic output and the cost of control [6,7,8]. The threat of invasion continues to increase due to globalization, world transport and travel, and climate change [9,10,11,12].
Invasion in southeastern U.S. forestlands poses a severe threat to an ecologically and economically important region. Southeastern forests contain over 200 million acres of timberland, providing 62% of U.S. timber production and over 15% of world-wide timber [13,14]. Invasive plants threaten the continued productivity of important hardwood and softwood species which is essential to the economic sustainability of the region [15]. In addition, Southeastern U.S. forests contain a high level of native biodiversity, with over 3000 plant species [16,17,18], and provide many other important ecosystem services.
Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica Thunb.), a perennial woody vine, is one of the more ubiquitous and aggressively invasive pests of southeastern U.S. forests. Although introduced in the early 1800s, L. japonica was first recorded outside of cultivation along the Potomac River in 1882 [19]. Numerous different cultivars have subsequently been introduced and it has presently become naturalized in 45 states of the U.S. and the Canadian province of Ontario [20,21]. L. japonica has many characteristics which make it a successful invader. It experiences rapid growth [22], phenotypic plasticity for response to herbivore damage, leaf phenology, and plant growth form and structure [23,24], evergreen or semi-evergreen leaves, and early flowering for long durations [22]. Additionally, it can reproduce vegetatively or through seed, and is accessible to a wide diversity of pollinators (both diurnal and nocturnal due to dusk flower opening). It exploits light gaps efficiently [23] and can resprout from the roots following disturbance [25,26].
L. japonica is found in most southeastern forest communities and can have negative effects on the native vegetation of the communities in which it is prevalent [27]. It has been shown to decrease diversity [28,29,30], modify vegetation structure [31], and inhibit growth and reproduction of native species under certain circumstances [32,33,34]. There are currently no predators or pathogens in the introduced range which have significant detrimental effects on L. japonica [20], and eradication from an area requires constant intensive combinations of removal strategies [20,31].
Although already wide-spread, L. japonica continues to expand its range in North America and invade formerly intact areas within its established range [20]. The frequency of these occurrences is likely to increase with increased temperatures [35,36,37] and additional disturbances [38,39]. Reliable predictions of habitats at risk are needed in order to enact preventative measures for controlling the spread of L. japonica. In this paper, we apply logistic regression to analyze an extensive data set collected as part of the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the U.S. Forest Service. We aim to identify potential determinants of invasion and predict the likelihood of further invasion under a variety of possible management strategies.

2. Experimental Section

2.1. Study Area and Data Sources

This study area is the southern United States, one of the most productive forest regions in the country and the world [40]. Hence, the U.S. Forest Service’s Southern Research Station of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) started conducting a national forest resource survey that provides a means of studying the problem of plant invasions in forest land in early 2000 [41]. The invasive plant survey supplements traditional forest resource inventories on a 5-km grid and located on forest land in the 13 southern states by federal and state forest resource survey crews [41]. The survey is constructed on a state-by-state basis with a plan to survey one-fifth of each state’s plots annually, and thereafter on a continuing cycle. At present, preliminary analyses for frequency and severity of invasion by L. japonica are available for twelve states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, east Texas (eastern portion only), and Virginia, while surveys have not yet started in Oklahoma (Figure 1). Hence, we used these twelve states as our study area. We drew data from two U.S. Forest Service Southern Region FIA datasets: (1) we drew upon the Nonnative Invasive Plants dataset to obtain the presence of L. japonica in all plots; and (2) we drew upon the traditional FIA dataset to obtain data on stand characteristics, site conditions, and management activities and disturbances [42,43]. We also obtained climatic data from NOAA Satellite and Information Service [44]. We linked data from these three sets using the FIA plot identification numbers and locations.
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Figure 1. Current occupation of forestlands in the southern United States by L. japonica [42,43]. Gray and black dots represent absence and presence on U.S. Forest Service plots of Japanese honeysuckle, respectively.
Figure 1. Current occupation of forestlands in the southern United States by L. japonica [42,43]. Gray and black dots represent absence and presence on U.S. Forest Service plots of Japanese honeysuckle, respectively.
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2.2. Potential Predictors of Invasion

This study identified, from existing literature, potential explanatory variables that might have promoted the invasion of L. japonica in the southern U.S. Previous work has identified several predictors of plant invasions, including landscape features such as elevation, slope, adjacency to water bodies [45,46,47], climatic conditions such as extreme minimum and maximum temperature [48], forest and site condition such as stand age, site productivity, and species diversity [49,50,51], forest management activities and disturbances such as timber harvest, site preparation, artificial regeneration, natural regeneration, distance to the nearest road, insect damage, disease damage, fire damage, animal damage, and wind damage [52,53]. Drawing on the literature on plant invasions, we selected a set of possible variables for plots within our study area directly from the traditional FIA dataset (Table 1). In addition, we used plot Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates, x for distance east and y for distance north of the UTM origin, to test for spatial autocorrelation effects across plots, employing Moran’s I index [54]. We also used the same dataset to compute Shannon’s index of tree species diversity, Hs, for each plot [49,50]:
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where B and Bi are the total stand basal area and the basal area of trees of species i, respectively, and ns is the number of tree species.
Table
Table 1. Descriptions, values or units of measure, and means or frequencies of landscape features, forest conditions, and management activities and disturbances evaluated as potential determinants of site invasion by L. japonica on forested plots in the southern United States.
Table 1. Descriptions, values or units of measure, and means or frequencies of landscape features, forest conditions, and management activities and disturbances evaluated as potential determinants of site invasion by L. japonica on forested plots in the southern United States.
Variable descriptionValue or unit of measureMean (range) or frequency
Landscape features
Elevationm139 (−36~1524) a
Slopedegree5.39 (0~77.5) a
Adjacency to water bodies within 300 m0: no0: 27,940
1: yes1: 6,731
xEasting of plot UTM coordinates (m)3.62 × 105 (2.29 × 105~5.28 × 105) a
yNorthing of plot UTM coordinates (m)3.75 × 106 (2.72 × 106~4.36 × 106) a
Climatic conditions
Mean daily minimum temperature°C8.44 (−6.61~21.11) a
Mean daily maximum temperature°C28.28 (21.17~29.44) a
Forest conditions
Stand ageyears44.27 (1~184) a
Site productivity (height-age curve categories)1: 0–1.391: 139
2: 1.40–3.492: 5,912
3: 3.50–5.943: 17,270
4: 5.95–8.394: 12,112
5: 8.40–11.545: 5,609
6: 11.55–15.746: 1,483
7: >15.74 m3/ha/yr7: 112
Species diversityShannon’s species diversity1.48 (0~3.02) a
Management activities and disturbances
Timber harvest b0: no0: 36,216
1: yes1: 6,421
Site preparation b0: no0: 41,181
1: yes1: 1,456
Artificial regeneration b0: no0: 31,545
1: yes1: 11,092
Natural regeneration b0: no0: 41,663
1: yes1: 974
Distance to the nearest road1: <30 1: 2,846
2: 30–91 2: 4,732
3: 91–152 3: 4,218
4: 152–305 4: 7,409
5: 305–805 5: 10,424
6: 805–1,609 6: 4,339
7: 1,609–4,828 7: 1,349
8: 4,828–8,0478: 119
9: >8047 m9: 84
Insect disturbance b0: no0: 42,271
1: yes1: 366
Disease disturbance b0: no0: 42,480
1: yes1: 157
Fire disturbance b0: no0: 41,551
1: yes1: 1,086
Animal disturbance b0: no0: 42,069
1: yes1: 568
Wind disturbance b (including hurricanes and tornados)0: no0: 41,269
1: yes1: 1,368
Ownership
Forestland ownership0: public0: 5,349
1: private1: 37,288
a: Numbers inside the parentheses are the range of the variable; b: Nominally within the past 5 years. With damage codes, at least 25% of the trees in a stand must be damaged to warrant a code of 1.
We evaluated all potential determinants of invasion via stepwise multiple logistic regression, using a backwards elimination procedure [55]:
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where p is the probability of presence of invasion by L. japonica, p/(1-p) is the odds of the presence of L. japonica, X is the vector of independent variables which are shown in Table 1, and α and β (a vector) are the regression coefficients. We tested for zero inflation using zero-inflated binomial regression [56]. When we ran multiple logistic regression, we removed insignificant terms and re-estimated the model [57,58] until the Akaike information criterion (AIC) [59] could not be lowered further. We then used Hosmer-Lemeshow’s test to check for goodness-of-fit [60]. We re-estimated the last model obtained in this way, assuming a random error, to assess the significance of the spatial autocorrelation of the residuals. We conducted all statistical analyses using SAS 9.2 (SAS Institute Inc., 2008).

2.3. Likelihood of Further Invasion

Based on regression results, we estimated the probability of presence of invasion of each forested plot as:
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We then superimposed these probabilities of occupancy on a map of the study area using ArcMapTM 9.1 (ESRI, Redlands, CA, USA). To provide a more useful management perspective, we also generated a map indicating the average probability for each county. We explored effects of climate changes and some possible effects of different management strategies on the likelihood of further invasion by assuming global climate change (2 °C warming) and the occurrence of artificial regeneration, fire disturbance, and complete conversion to public land ownership in each county within the study area (i.e., we assigned different values to the elements of the vector, X, of independent variables in Equation 3).

3. Results

3.1. Potential Determinants of Invasion

Results of logistic regression indicated a positive correlation between likelihood of invasion and adjacency (within 300 m) to water bodies, mean daily maximum temperature, site productivity, species diversity, and private land ownership, and a negative correlation between invasion likelihood and slope, stand age, artificial regeneration, distance to the nearest road, and fire disturbance (Table 2). The model classified 74% of the plots correctly with regard to species presence and absence, and Hosmer and Lemeshow’s goodness-of-fit test indicated no significant difference (p = 0.24) between observed and model-predicted occupancy values. The coefficient of zero inflation for the final logistic regression model was not significant (p > 0.05), and the AIC of the zero-inflated binomial model (24,454) was significantly larger than the AIC of the multiple logistic regression model (22,702). Moran’s I index (I = 0.04) indicated no statistically significant (p = 0.19) spatial autocorrelation at the 5% significance level. (We excluded 7,966 of the 42,637 plots because of missing data).
Table
Table 2. Potential determinants of L. japonica invasion of forested plots in the southern United States as indicated by results of stepwise multiple logistic regression.
Table 2. Potential determinants of L. japonica invasion of forested plots in the southern United States as indicated by results of stepwise multiple logistic regression.
VariableEstimated coefficientEstimated standard errorEstimated odds ratio a95% confidence intervals for the odds ratio
LowerUpper
Landscape features
Slope−0.02190.00210.9780.9740.982
Adjacency to water bodies within 300 m0.16040.03271.1741.1011.252
Climatic conditions
Mean daily maximum temperature0.46260.03531.5881.4821.702
Forest conditions
Stand age−0.01440.00060.9860.9850.987
Site productivity0.24350.01271.2761.2442.308
Species diversity0.33400.02221.3971.3371.459
Management activities and disturbances
Artificial regeneration−0.55110.06860.5760.5040.659
Distance to the nearest road−0.06530.00800.9370.9220.952
Fire disturbance−0.34940.08800.7050.5930.838
Ownership
Forestland ownership0.78140.04812.1851.9882.401
Constant−2.50400.2463−−−
a: The estimated odds ratio indicates the change in the probability of invasion by L. japonica that would result from a one-unit change in the value of the indicated variable. For example, a one-unit increase in site productivity signifies that invasion is 1.276 times more likely than before, after controlling for the other variables.

3.2. Likelihood of Further Invasion

3.2.1. Under Current Conditions

Estimated probabilities of further invasion (p) were relatively low, with approximately 69% (≈72 million ha) of the plots falling within the 0 < p ≤ 0.4 category, 16% (≈17 million ha) within the 0.4 < p ≤ 0.6 category, and 5% (≈5 million ha) within the 0.6 < p ≤ 0.8 category. About 10% (≈10 million ha) of the plots fell within the p > 0.8 category, the majority (22%) of which were located in Mississippi (Figure 2(a)). On a county by county basis, higher average estimated probabilities (p’ > 0.4) appeared throughout Mississippi, stretching northward across western Tennessee and western Kentucky, westward across southern Arkansas, eastward across north-central Alabama, and also appeared in several counties scattered within Virginia; the six counties with highest average probabilities (0.8 < p’ ≤ 1.0) were all located in Mississippi (Figure 2(a)).
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Figure 2. Estimated probability of occupancy of forestlands in each U.S. Forest Service plot (left) and average estimated probability in each county (right) in the southern United States by L. japonica with (a) no management; (b) global climate change; (c) public ownership; (d) artificial regeneration; and (e) fire disturbance.
Figure 2. Estimated probability of occupancy of forestlands in each U.S. Forest Service plot (left) and average estimated probability in each county (right) in the southern United States by L. japonica with (a) no management; (b) global climate change; (c) public ownership; (d) artificial regeneration; and (e) fire disturbance.
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Figure 3. Number of counties within the indicated average estimated probability (p’) range for invasion with no management, global climate change, conversion to public ownership, artificial regeneration, and fire disturbance.
Figure 3. Number of counties within the indicated average estimated probability (p’) range for invasion with no management, global climate change, conversion to public ownership, artificial regeneration, and fire disturbance.
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3.2.2. Under Global Climate Change and Alternative Management Strategy

Global temperature is likely to rise during the upcoming decades as predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [61]. Using our model, global climate change with a 2 °C warming increased overall p’ from 0.37 to 0.43 and increased the number of counties with p’ > 0.6 from 68 to 116, with p’ increasing from 0.52 to 0.57 in Mississippi where invasion probabilities were highest (Figure 2 (b) and Figure 3).
Average estimated probabilities of further invasion (p’) were reduced the most by conversion to public land ownership, followed by artificial regeneration and fire disturbance (Figure 2). Conversion to public land ownership decreased overall p’ from 0.37 to 0.26 and decreased the number of counties with p’ > 0.6 from 68 to 20, with counties having p’ > 0.60 disappearing from South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia (Figure 2(c) and Figure 3). Artificial regeneration decreased overall p’ from 0.37 to 0.28 and decreased the number of counties with p’ > 0.6 from 68 to 30 (Figure 2(d) and Figure 3). Fire disturbance decreased overall p’ from 0.37 to 0.31 and decreased the number of counties with p’ > 0.6 from 68 to 37 (Figure 2(e) and Figure 3).

4. Discussion

Environmental niche models which include current distribution and land use parameters can be valuable tools for predicting the future spread of L. japonica. Although L. japonica is naturalized and found in most habitat types in southeastern U.S. forests [20], it is still spreading into uninvaded areas possessing suitable environmental conditions [62,63]. Predicting the likelihood of invasion into a given area will allow managers to focus prevention measures on high risk and environmentally sensitive areas. Additionally, correlation determinations between occurrence and management can assist managers in choosing appropriate strategies for minimizing risk in areas environmentally suited to further L. japonica invasion. Our modeling analysis suggests that while L. japonica distribution is ultimately driven by a suite of environmental characteristics, certain management strategies might be effective for preventing its spread.
Suitable environmental characteristics are the dominant correlates with L. japonica occurrence, but anthropogenic features and land use/management variables also showed strong negative and positive correlations with potential invasion. Proximity to water bodies, daily maximum temperatures, and site productivity were all strongly positively correlated environmental variables. Climate is one of the primary determinants of species range [64] and invasion is frequently found to be highest in climatically suitable areas [65]. However, climate alone is not sufficient to determine a species’ invasion potential [66]. Stand age, artificial forest regeneration, and fire disturbance are negatively correlated, whereas private land ownership is positively correlated with probability of invasion, suggesting that land management activities contribute substantially to successful invasions.
Artificial regeneration, while expensive, can decrease the risk of L. japonica invasion. This might be an important consideration in areas at high risk, given the potential economic losses attendant to L. japonica invasion. L. japonica, like other invasive vines, can inhibit growth of host species through light interception and even kill host species through girdling [67]. L. japonica has been shown to inhibit reproduction and growth of non-host trees through root competition around forest edges [34]. In addition, L. japonica can indirectly inhibit growth of native species through site occupation and seedling suppression [30,33,68]. These negative effects manifest themselves as lost profits in forests managed for timber. Additionally, extensive and oftentimes cost prohibitive measures are required to eradicate L. japonica once established. With artificial regeneration following timber harvest, stands are intensively managed for desirable species, which maintains conditions that are more appropriate for the native desired species and less appropriate for L. japonica [69]. This usually includes site preparation through root-raking and burning or disking [70] which reduces likelihood of L. japonica establishment into the newly created forest gap. This removal of non-desirable species and subsequent rapid stand growth can inhibit the establishment of L. japonica into a newly formed forest gap, which is otherwise highly at risk for invasion given the aggressive exploitation of light gaps and rapid growth under high light conditions exhibited by L. japonica [23,32]. Intense disturbance can create favorable habitat for L. japonica [71]. However, planting native species and subsequent management for those species reduces the opportunity for L. japonica spread. Also, the resulting single-aged stand has lower potential for future small gap dynamics which L. japonica might exploit, given that most of the trees will survive to harvestable age and L. japonica invasion is severely restricted in closed canopy conditions [72].
While fire alone has not been an effective restoration technique for the eradication of L. japonica from an invaded area, our model showed that the probability of invasion is negatively correlated with fire disturbance, suggesting that prescribed burning might be an important tool in reducing the spread of L. japonica into uninvaded forests. Fire alone can reduce above-ground L. japonica density temporarily, but it readily resprouts from the roots allowing it to rapidly replace damaged tissues following a typical prescribed fire [26,28,73], although repeated fires and high intensity fire have been shown to reduce overall L. japonica abundance in several studies [74,75,76]. Management of uninvaded areas with prescribed fires can decrease the likelihood of invasion. Fire eliminates vegetative spread from invaded areas to surrounding forests. Additionally, prescribed burning can cause mortality in newly established seedlings of resprouting woody plants because the young plants have not had time to establish carbon reserves sufficient to allow root sprouting and the loss of photosynthetic tissues can lead to subsequent carbon starvation if reserves are low enough at the time of burning [77,78]. This is corroborated by West et al. [24] who determined that L. japonica can be suppressed by fire after observing higher L. japonica abundance in areas of high litter cover associated with escape from fire and Brewer and Menzel [76], who found that a combination of thinning and frequent burning reduces L. japonica abundance.
Several land-use features are also correlative indicators of potential distribution. We included land-use features in our model because current and past land-use has been shown to affect the distribution and abundance of many invasive plants [79,80]. Additionally, Surrette and Brewer determined that land use changes can actually create habitat suitable for L. japonica which disfavors native vegetation, leading to an increase in the abundance of the invader relative to native species [71]. Distance to the nearest road is negatively correlated with occurrence. Roads can act as invasion corridors facilitating the spread of invasive plants. This is especially likely for an invasive vine such as L. japonica which rapidly grows vegetatively in light gaps (like those created along roadways). This growth is facilitated by the dual growth forms characteristic of many vine species [19]. Where there is no existing structure for twining, L. japonica can grow in a mat form along the ground, increasing the likelihood that roads could act as corridors for, rather than barriers to, spread. Additionally, L. japonica is an important forage species for wildlife and was cultivated for planting [81]. Most plantings likely occur close to human populations which are usually located near roads, so increased invasion along roadways was likely facilitated by cultivation in areas near roads and along roads themselves. This is corroborated by other studies which show increased L. japonica invasion in areas of higher human population [21]. Indeed, Pysek et al. [82] present evidence suggesting a strong relationship between human distributions and invasive plants generally. We also found a highly positive correlation between private land ownership and invasion potential. This is likely the result of more intensive and expensive forest management occurring on public land, but could also be a result of more recent cultivation on private lands for wildlife forage, and potential size differences in forest parcels owned publically and privately. The smaller parcels owned by private landowners are more susceptible to invasion due to the fragmentation issues noted above. Baars et al. [83] found a higher threat of invasion in smaller forest remnants with smaller interior areas than in larger tracts with less edge relative to interior forest. While converting areas to public ownership is not a feasible management option for the prevention of L. japonica invasion, understanding the differences in management that lead to the higher invasion probabilities for publically owned lands can assist in the development of management recommendations for private landowners, which, if followed, could help avoid further spread of L. japonica on private lands without a switch in ownership.
In addition to looking at current climatic and environmental correlates of invasion potential and exploring management effects on risk of invasion, we investigated the potential for climate change to alter the invasive potential of L. japonica. In general, climate change and its attendant habitat alterations can facilitate spread and increased abundance of invasive species [84,85] and lead to changes in spatial patterns of invasive distribution [86]. While temperature effects on L. japonica have not been experimentally explored, an increase in overall global temperatures would yield an expected increase in the area of climatically suitable habitat for L. japonica. In addition, our model showed an increase in overall risk of invasion, and an increase in the area of highest risk, with a 2 °C increase in annual temperature, resulting from the strong positive correlation between annual maximum temperature and invasion potential. This suggests that not only will the potential range of L. japonica increase with climate change, but the likelihood of invasion increases within the existing range distribution. This information is important for forest managers in areas with currently low invasion probabilities that might increase with climate change in the future.
While niche models such as ours are useful for determining invasion potentials for large areas, there are some shortcomings of this modeling approach. First, our model is based on current presence and absence data, which might not represent the entire potential niche of the species, since invasion is an ongoing process [66,87] and adaptation of L. japonica to its new environment may expand its potential niche [88]. Second, we modeled several potential drivers of invasion only implicitly. We included biotic interactions implicitly via inclusion of diversity and productivity correlates of L. japonica occurrence, but particular species interactions likely help shape the invasion process [89].
Nonetheless, we feel our model offers important insights into the management of L. japonica, which threatens to continue its invasion throughout southeastern U.S. forests, as well as other, recently invaded, areas [90]. Armed with knowledge of current and potential future high risk areas and, hence, likely paths of invasion, forest managers can develop long term monitoring and control strategies for effectively slowing range expansion and mitigating its effects.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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