Effects of Invasive Alien Plants on Fire Regimes

By M. Brooks, Carla M. D'Antonio, D. Richardson, J. Grace, J. E. Keeley, J. Ditomaso, Richard J. Hobbs, M. Pellant, D. Pyke. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A role for assisted evolution in designing native plant materials for domesticated landscapes (2009, background): “Although this approach will not appeal to everyone, it is less manipulative than other options mentioned by Brooks et al. (2004).”
Superior performance and nutrient-use efficiency of invasive plants over non-invasive congeners in a resource-limited environment (2011, background): “This set of traits dovetails nicely with the observation that invaders commonly invade high-resource disturbed areas (Burke and Grime 1996; Daehler 2003) or else invade by virtue of novel traits that increase local resource ability, such as N-fixation or flammability (Vitousek and Walker 1989; Brook”
Positive feedbacks between plant invasions and fire regimes: Teline monspessulana (L.) K. Koch (Fabaceae) in central Chile (2008, background): “Invasive plants may increase fuel load or alter other fuel attributes such as flammability and continuity (Brooks et al. 2004).”
Advancing impact prediction and hypothesis testing in invasion ecology using a comparative functional response approach (2014, background): “Not all invaders have a major impact because of their per capita effects; for example, many invasive plants, through their great abundance or biomass, affect fire regimes (Brooks et al. 2004).”
Do alien plant species profit more from high resource supply than natives? A trait‐based analysis (2013, background): “Potential candidates are differences in wood and stem properties (Kooyman & Westoby, 2009), certain reproductive traits or traits related to sensitivity to, or impact on, fire regimes (e.g. Brooks et al., 2004; Pierson et al., 2011).”
Interactions of an introduced shrub and introduced earthworms in an Illinois urban woodland: impact on leaf litter decomposition. (2007, background): “Such explorations of the ecosystem impacts of invasion have become more widespread (Rapport et al., 1985; Ehrenfeld, 2003; Allison and Vitousek, 2004; Brooks et al., 2004).”
Alien plant invasions in tropical and sub-tropical savannas: patterns, processes and prospects (2010, background): “Other mechanisms of invasion-fire mediated changes include the establishment of new plant forms (from wooded savanna to grassland) which may have intrinsic fuel properties that differ from those of native species (Brooks et al. 2004).”
Invasive Species, Environmental Change and Management, and Health (2010, background): “Changes may result in increased or decreased fire frequencies and changes in the type of fire (surface versus crown fires), with many potential implications for the ecosystem that cannot be classified as negative or positive (26).”