Resource-use efficiency and plant invasion in low-resource systems

By J. Funk, P. Vitousek. Nature, 2007

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

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Exotic invasive plants increase productivity, abundance of ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria and nitrogen availability in intermountain grasslands (2016, background): “Alternatively, Funk & Vitousek (2007) hypothesized that some invaders might exhibit higher nutrient use efficiency than the natives they out-compete, and this trait would allow invaders to allocate more C below-ground.”
Impacts of invasive biota in forest ecosystems in an aboveground–belowground context (2017, background): “, higher specific leaf area, foliar nitrogen photosynthetic rate and relative growth rate (Funk and Vitousek 2007; Liao et al. 2008; Peltzer et al. 2016).”
Ecophysiological traits associated with the competitive ability of invasive Australian acacias (2011, neutral): “One key trait commonly recognized to support successful invasions is the ability of aliens to better acquire limiting resources or to use resources more efficiently than native species (e.g. Vitousek, 1986; Cordell et al., 2002; Funk & Vitousek, 2007).”
Mechanisms of Plant Invasions of North American and European Grasslands (2011, background): “However, when an invader appears with similar traits and superior fitness to the native dominant species, both invasion and dominance are likely (e.g., Reed et al. 2005, Funk & Vitousek 2007).”
Novel forests maintain ecosystem processes after the decline of native tree species (2012, background): “…ET AL.232 Ecological Monographs Vol. 82, No. 2 Furthermore, although increased nutrient-use efficiency may be a strategy employed by some introduced species in nutrient-limited environments (Funk and Vitousek 2007), we found that novel forest NUE and PUE were generally lower than in native forests.”
Four priority areas to advance invasion science in the face of rapid environmental change (2020, background): “…largest community-level and ecosystem-level impacts are generated by invaders that use key resources differently or more efficiently than natives do and that can alter disturbance regimes, habitat structure, or food web configurations (Vitousek 1990; Funk and Vitousek 2007; Morrison and Hay 2011).”
Functional differences between native and alien species: a global-scale comparison: Functional differences of native and alien plants (2010, background): “…⁄ absence of certain traits (Bradshaw et al. 2008; Lambdon, Lloret & Hul- me 2008), while quantitative traits are typically considered one at a time (Hamilton, Holzapfel & Mahall 1999; Lake & Leishman 2004; Funk & Vitousek 2007; Van Kleunen, Weber & Fischer 2010; but see Leishman et al. 2007).”
Faster returns on ‘leaf economics’ and different biogeochemical niche in invasive compared with native plant species (2009, neutral): “Foliar traits such as higher photosynthetic capacity per dry mass (Amass) and lower leaf construction costs associated with a lower leaf mass per area (LMA) partly explain the success of alien plant species (Baruch & Goldstein, 1999; Funk & Vitousek, 2007 ), since they may contribute to faster grow”
Multispecies comparison reveals that invasive and native plants differ in their traits but not in their plasticity (2011, background): “At the same time, high resource-use efficiency (i.e. high carbon assimilation per unit of resource) has been hypothesized as a decisive feature allowing exotic species to become invasive in newly colonized ecosystems (Dukes &Mooney 1999; Niinemets, Valladares & Ceulemans 2003; Funk & Vitousek 2007).”
Functional composition controls invasion success in a California serpentine grassland (2010, background): “For example, species within functional groups may more closely approximate the assumption of similar fitness, leading to stronger effects of history and dispersal constraints in determining species composition within groups (Tilman 2004; Gonzalez 2007).”
Differences in plasticity between invasive and native plants from a low resource environment (2008, background): “A recent field survey of species across low resource habitats in Hawai’i found that invasive species displayed similar or high resource-use efficiency (resource conservation traits) relative to neighbouring native species (Funk & Vitousek 2007).”
Responses of common and rare aliens and natives to nutrient availability and fluctuations (2017, background): “…some alien plant species successful and allows them to displace native plants in the introduced region is an important research topic in ecology (Funk & Vitousek 2007; van Kleunen, Weber & Fischer 2010; Leishman, Thomson & Cooke 2010; Heberling & Fridley 2013; Funk et al. 2016; Jia et al. 2016).”
Timing is everything: does early and late germination favor invasions by herbaceous alien plants? (2016, neutral): “2003), often under suboptimal conditions (Funk 2013; Funk and Vitousek 2007) and/or to benefit disproportionately more than native species from increases in resources (Daehler 2003; Dawson et al.”
Plant invasions and the niche (2009, neutral): “For example, many invasive and native plants in Hawaii possess the same ecophysiological strategies for exploiting lowresource environments (Funk & Vitousek 2007).”
Global change effects on humid tropical forests: Evidence for biogeochemical and biodiversity shifts at an ecosystem scale (2016, background): “A global meta-analysis, which included three tropical montane forests from Hawaii, showed that the abundance of mycorrhizal fungi decreased by 15%withN fertilization, with nodifference between ectomycorrhizal and arbuscularmycorrhizal responses [Treseder, 2004].”