Experimental demonstration that plant diversity reduces invasibility – evidence of a biological mechanism or a consequence of sampling effect?

By David A. Wardle. 2001

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

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Invasive alien plant species in China: regional distribution patterns (2005, background): “These differences may result from extrinsic covarying factors and different scales (Wardle, 2001; Brown & Peet, 2003).”
Forest biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services (2017, background): “…that an ecosystem will contain a species that grows faster, is more resistant to a particular disturbance, or has some other advantageous trait that leads to enhanced ecosystem functioning or provision of services, compared to communities with fewer species (Wardle 2001; Lefcheck et al. 2015).”
Forage productivity, species evenness and weed invasion in pasture communities (2003, methodology): “Explanations for the relationship generally fall into two categories ( Wardle, 2001), i.”
Grazing, Environmental Heterogeneity, and Alien Plant Invasions in Temperate Pampa Grasslands (2002, background): “On the fertile end of the gradient, floodprone acidic meadows have nearly 100% cover and thus establishment opportunities are probably reduced (see Huston 1994; Wardle 2001).”
Assessing the relative importance of disturbance, herbivory, diversity, and propagule pressure in exotic plant invasion (2009, background): “The underlying mechanism influencing both species diversity and site invasibility may be resource availability (Davis et al. 2000, Wardle 2001).”
Restoration of Themeda australis swards suppresses soil nitrate and enhances ecological resistance to invasion by exotic annuals (2009, background): “Most studies of biotic resistance have focused on the contribution of species and functional diversity to the pre-emption of resources, either through species-packing or through the ‘‘sampling effect’’ whereby more diverse communities are more likely to include a competitively dominant or otherwise ”
Invasion Biology 1958-2005: The Pursuit of Science and Conservation (2004, unknown): “However, these experiments were challenged on methodological grounds (Wardle 2001) and their relevancy was questioned since studies in natural communities often found that the most diverse environments were the most heavily invaded (Lonsdale 1999, Stohlgren et al. 1999).”
Diversity reduces invasibility in experimental plant communities the role of plant species (2003, background): “It was argued that the observed decrease of invasion success with increasing diversity could be caused by an increasing occurrence of a highly suppressive species ( Wardle 2001 ).”
Plant Invasions and Invasibility of Plant Communities (2013, background): “Wardle (2001) provided a valuable methodological criticism of many of these studies.”
Dominance not richness determines invasibility of tallgrass prairie. (2004, background): “…to be a likely process in communities shaped by stochastic assembly processes (Tilman et al. 1997), it is also viewed as an artifact of experiments that manipulate community richness by constructing synthetic communities comprised of random assemblages of species (Huston 1997, Wardle 1999, 2001).”
Functional composition controls invasion success in a California serpentine grassland (2010, background): “Because more diverse plots had a higher probability of containing Es, invader success would be expected to decline (Huston 1997; Wagner, Wildi & Ewald 2000; Wardle 2001).”
Dominant species identity regulates invasibility of old‐field plant communities (2006, background): “Further, while Wardle (2001) proposed that the relative abundance of a dominant species, not just its”
Plant invasion across space and time: factors affecting nonindigenous species success during four stages of invasion. (2007, background): “While many early studies were unable to address this question (Wardle, 2001), it now seems that the answer may be: both.”