Introduction bias: Cultivated alien plant species germinate faster and more abundantly than native species in Switzerland

By Thomas Chrobock, Anne Kempel, M. Fischer, M. van Kleunen. 2011

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

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Citations in the corpus

Phylogenetic and functional characteristics of household yard floras and their changes along an urbanization gradient (2012, background): “Second, cultivated species are biased toward fast and abundant germination (Chrobock et al. 2011), which increases their chances of propagating spontaneously and thus to ‘‘escape’’ cultivation.”
ECOLOGY OF ORGANISMS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS Urban drivers of plant-pollinator interactions (2015, background): “…a greenhouse study found that non-native cultivated species consistently germinate earlier than native plants, suggesting that human selection for convenient phenological qualities places a strong trait selection filter on many non-native plants before they are transported (Chrobock et al. 2011).”
Species and environmental characteristics point to flow regulation and drought as drivers of riparian plant invasion (2014, background): “These species are not a random sample of the entire exotic species pool but are intentionally selected for characteristics such as fast growth rates, ease of propagation, faster germination and higher seed viability (Dehnen-Schmutz et al., 2007; Marco et al., 2010; Chrobock et al., 2011).”
Early bird catches the worm: germination as a critical step in plant invasion (2016, background): “Chrobock et al. (2011) argue that differences in the germination behavior of invasive aliens and native species could be due to an introduction bias resulting from the selective introduction of plants with high and rapid germination.”
An inventory of invasive alien species in China (2012, background): “For example, Chrobock et al. (2011) found evidence that cultivated non-native species germinate earlier and more successfully than related native species which indicates a humanmediated selection for these traits.”
The more the merrier: Multi-species experiments in ecology (2014, background): “Once one has the seeds of the different plant species, they may differ in germination requirements (Chrobock et al., 2011).”