Reconstructing 50 years of Opuntia stricta invasion in the Kruger National Park, South Africa: environmental determinants and propagule pressure

By L. Foxcroft, Mathieu Rouget, D. Richardson, Sandra Mac Fadyen. 2004

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

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Plant invasions: merging the concepts of species invasiveness and community invasibility (2006, background): “…of invasions by alien species has been convincingly demonstrated (Mulvaney, 2001; Kowarik, 1995; Crooks and Soulé, 1999; Richardson, 1999; Rejmánek, 2000; Kolar and Lodge, 2002; Williams et al., 2002; Rouget and Richardson, 2003; Brown and Peet, 2003, Kühn et al., 2004; Foxcroft et al., 2004).”
General hypotheses in invasion ecology (2014, background): “Foxcroft et al. (2004) showed that propagule pressure is highly important for understanding the invasion of South Africa’s Kruger National Park by the cactus Opuntia stricta.”
Species Distribution Modeling in the Tropics: Problems, Potentialities, and the Role of Biological Data for Effective Species Conservation (2009, background): “Reference Region Scope Verification Taxon Data1 Allouche et al. (2006) Israel Methodological Informal validation Plants P Anadón et al. (2007) Spain Species conservation Same data Reptiles P-A Anderson et al. (2002) Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela Biogeography Partitioning Mammals P Araújo et al. (2005”
Habitat suitability modelling of an invasive plant with advanced remote sensing data (2009, background): “…used to predict the current and potential distributions of invasive species (e.g. Higgins et al., 1999; Peterson, 2003; Rouget & Richardson, 2003; Foxcroft et al., 2004, 2007; Thuiller et al., 2005; Cutler et al., 2007), although it must be remembered that observed patterns are also the result…”
Biological Control of Cactaceae in South Africa (2011, background): “…programme against O. stricta in Kruger National Park has focused on maximizing the use of biological control and is now almost entirely reliant on C. cactorum and D. opuntiae (Lotter & Hoffmann 1998; Foxcroft et al. 2004, 2007a,b; Foxcroft & FreitagRonaldson 2007; Foxcroft & Rejmanek 2007).”
Alien plant invasions in tropical and sub-tropical savannas: patterns, processes and prospects (2010, background): “Ungulate herbivory (the role of insect herbivores was generally under-appreciated) was considered an important factor in limiting plant invasions in South Africa’s Kruger National Park (Macdonald 1988).”
Spatio-temporal dynamics of plant invasions: Linking pattern to process (2005, background): “Over a period of 50 y, one population of Opuntia stricta spread up to 18.5 km from its origin, an average rate of 370 m·y-1 (Foxcroft et al., 2004).”
MAcroecological Framework for Invasive Aliens (MAFIA): disentangling large-scale context dependence in biological invasions (2020, background): “…however, new population foci create potent propagule pressure sources that drive invasions much more quickly than the size and other dimensions of the source population, as demonstrated, for example, by the invasion of Opuntia stricta in Kruger National Park, South Africa (Foxcroft et al. 2004).”
Integrating species distribution models and interacting particle systems to predict the spread of an invasive alien plant (2010, background): “pattern and rate of invasive spread (Havel et al., 2002; Rouget & Richardson, 2003; Foxcroft et al., 2004; Meentemeyer et al., 2008).”
The Role of Propagule Pressure in Biological Invasions (2009, background): “These have typically incorporated only environmental variables, but several studies have also incorporated variables representing propagule pressure (e.g., Bossenbroek et al. 2001, Dullinger et al. 2009, Foxcroft et al. 2004, Rouget & Richardson 2003).”
Niche based distribution modelling of an invasive alien plant: effects of population status, propagule pressure and invasion history (2009, background): “Indeed, combinations of environmental predictors and indicators of propagule pressure have proven successful for predicting the landscape-scale distribution of alien plants in several cases (Bossenbroek et al. 2001; Rouget and Richardson 2003; Foxcroft et al. 2004).”
Management of plant invasions mediated by frugivore interactions (2006, unknown): “…best used for a posteriori analysis of invasions (Higgins & Richardson 1999; Higgins, Richardson & Cowling 2001), which can also be achieved by models that correlate the observed patterns of spatial spread of invasive species with climatic, edaphic or other environmental variables (Foxcroft et al .”
The biogeography of naturalization in alien plants (2006, background): “Propagule pressure is a crucial ingredient for successful invasion (Crooks & Soulé, 1999; Richardson, 1999; Rejmánek, 2000a; Foxcroft et al., 2004).”
Species richness of alien plants in South Africa: Environmental correlates and the relationship with indigenous plant species richness (2005, methodology): “Regression tree analysis has been successfully used in similar studies (De’ath & Fabricius, 2000; Foxcroft et al., 2004; Thuiller et al., 2003).”
Does public awareness increase support for invasive species management? Promising evidence across taxa and landscape types (2017, background): “This species is highly adaptable to both urban and non-urban areas, and it is currently present all over South Africa (Walters et al. 2011)—including Cambedoo National Park (near Graaff Reinet; Masubelele et al. 2009) and Kruger National Park (Foxcroft et al. 2004).”
Pinus: a model group for unlocking the secrets of alien plant invasions? (2006, background): “This suggests that once invasions “get going” they build up considerable momentum which can be a more potent driver of further spread than other factors known to play a role (see a further application and additional discussion in Foxcroft et al. 2004).”