Residence time and potential range: crucial considerations in modelling plant invasions

By John R. U. Wilson, D. Richardson, Mathieu Rouget, Ş. Procheş, Mao A. Amis, Lesley Henderson, Wilfried Thuiller. 2007

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A prime aim of invasion biology is to predict which species will become invasive, but retrospective analyses have so far failed to develop robust generalizations. This is because many biological, environmental, and anthropogenic factors interact to determine the distribution of invasive species. However, in this paper we also argue that many analyses of invasiveness have been flawed by not considering several fundamental issues: (1) the range size of an invasive species depends on how much time it has had to spread (its residence time); (2) the range size and spread rate are mediated by the total extent of suitable (i.e. potentially invasible) habitat; and (3) the range size and spread rate depend on the frequency and intensity of introductions (propagule pressure), the position of founder populations in relation to the potential range, and the spatial distribution of the potential range. We explored these considerations using a large set of invasive alien plant species in South Africa for which accurate distribution data and other relevant information were available.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Global uses of Australian acacias – recent trends and future prospects (2011, background): “Given that some of the widespread plantings reviewed in this paper are very recent (last 30 years), and as there is usually a substantial lag phase between plantings and the start of widespread invasions (e.g., Wilson et al., 2007), further invasions are probably inevitable.”
Predicting potential distributions of invasive species: where to go from here? (2010, background): “…intrinsic properties of invaders (reviewed in Rejmánek et al., 2005; Pyšek & Richardson, 2007), the propensity of natural communities to be invaded (Rejmánek et al., 2005) and the relationship between invaders’ distributions and environmental factors (Thuiller et al., 2006; Wilson et al., 2007).”
Seed banks of invasive Australian Acacia species in South Africa: Role in invasiveness and options for management (2008, background): “The ranges of all the species listed as major invaders are at least partly attributable to their dissemination by humans (Richardson et al., 2003; Wilson et al., 2007).”
Invasion success of alien plants: do habitat affinities in the native distribution range matter? (2009, background): “It is well documented that species with longer residence times are more widespread (e.g. Rejmánek, 2000; Castro et al., 2005; Wilson et al., 2007) and more likely to © 2009 The Authors Global Ecology and Biogeography, 18, 372–382, Journal compilation © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd 379 be invasive…”
Hotspots of plant invasion predicted by propagule pressure and ecosystem characteristics (2011, result): “Corresponding with other studies (Castro et al., 2005; Wilson et al., 2007), invasion levels increased with time, but the effect was only slight.”
Predicting invasiveness of Australian acacias on the basis of their native climatic affinities, life history traits and human use (2011, background): “Moreover, variation in residence time and human uses of alien species adds considerable biases to multispecies comparative studies (Thuiller et al., 2006; Van Kleunen et al., 2007; Wilson et al., 2007).”
Risk assessment, eradication, and biological control: global efforts to limit Australian acacia invasions (2011, background): “It might be partially explained by a lack of suitable sites (e.g. climatic or edaphic) (Wilson et al., 2007).”
Habitat suitability modelling of an invasive plant with advanced remote sensing data (2009, background): “DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00568.x ª 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd www.blackwellpublishing.com/ddi 627 (Wilson et al., 2007).”
Species diversity and drivers of spread of alien fungi (sensu lato) in Europe with a particular focus on France (2009, background): “Our study re-emphasizes the need to include this factor, prior to any other analysis of invasiveness (Wilson et al. 2007).”
Potential distribution range of invasive plant species in Spain (2012, background): “…ranges Because a precise native distribution was not known for most of the species selected, we estimated the potential range of each species using climatic, geographic and landscape information from their present distribution in Spain (see Wilson et al. 2007 for more details on the approach).”
The global invasion success of Central European plants is related to distribution characteristics in their native range and species traits (2009, background): “Another important confounding variable, minimum residence time (Rejmánek, 2000), which was shown to explain a substantial part of variation in invasion success (Castro et al., 2005; Thuiller et al., 2006; Wilson et al., 2007) could not be accounted for in this study.”