Disturbance, resource pulses and invasion: short-term shifts in competitive effects, not growth responses, favour exotic annuals.

By Levi M. Besaw, G. Thelen, S. Sutherland, K. Metlen, R. Callaway. 2011

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Current mismatch between research and conservation efforts: The need to study co-occurring invasive plant species (2013, background): “, 2006, 2007), based on presence of native species (Metlen, 2010), or under changing environmental contexts (Besaw et al., 2011).”
Facilitation and the invasibility of plant communities (2021, background): “For example, non- native annual grasses often respond very favourably to increased soil nutrients (Besaw et al., 2011; Maron & Marler, 2007; Yoder & Caldwell, 2002), yet canopy- driven increases in soil nutrients may not change along aridity gradients.”
The Mechanisms and Consequences of Interspecific Competition Among Plants (2016, background): “Additionally, as resource supply changes in space and time, the outcome of competitive interactions can also change (Rebele 2000, Besaw et al. 2011).”
Species and environmental characteristics point to flow regulation and drought as drivers of riparian plant invasion (2014, background): “If this is correct, we would not only expect exotic species to have superior colonisation ability (indicated by an overrepresentation of species with a high specific leaf area, short stature, small seed mass and an annual life history; Cornelissen et al., 2003; Besaw et al., 2011), but we would expe”