On the Role of Alien Species in Urban Flora and Vegetation

By I. Kowarik. 2008

322 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Petr Pyšek
2. Milan Chytrý
3. I. Kühn
4. S. Klotz
5. I. Kowarik
6. M. Lippe
7. F. Essl
8. Zdeňka Lososová

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Petr Pyšek
2. I. Kühn
3. S. Klotz
4. I. Kowarik
5. Milan Chytrý
6. D. Richardson
7. L. Tichý
8. M. Lippe

In Plant Science

1. Petr Pyšek
2. Milan Chytrý
3. I. Kühn
4. S. Klotz
5. L. Tichý
6. M. Horsák
7. Zdeňka Lososová
8. F. Essl

Citations in the corpus

• Biotic homogenization at the community scale: disentangling the roles of urbanization and plant invasion (2013, background): “Consequently, many urban floras show a high proportion of exotic species which may reach levels of up to 60%, both at the city scale (Py sek, 1998) and at the community scale (Kowarik, 1995).”
• Changes in the spatio-temporal patterns and habitat preferences of Ambrosia artemisiifolia during its invasion of Austria. (2009, background): “Habitat shifts or expansions of alien plants have been documented in Central Europe several times (e.g., Trepl 1984, Kowarik 1995, 2003a).”
• Aquatic pollution increases the relative success of invasive species (2010, background): “Along rural to urban gradients, examination of species such as plants and birds reveal shifts from natives to exotics as urbanization increases (Kowarik 1995; Blair 1996), and within urbanized lands, exotics are often found in association with the urban core and smaller, more degraded natural remnan”
• Does the invasive species Reynoutria japonica have an impact on soil and flora in urban wastelands? (2009, background): “Since invasive plant species commonly establish in disturbed, vulnerable communities that are far from ecological equilibrium (Kowarik 1995; Niemelä 1999; Williams et al. 2005; Godefroid et al. 2007; Muratet et al. 2007), it can be assumed that they are a major threat to local urban plant communitie”
• Patterns of plant traits in annual vegetation of man-made habitats in central Europe (2006, result): “…settlements, is weakly affected by phylogenetic relationships and consistent with a number of previous studies from western and central Europe (Kowarik, 1995; Hill et al., 2002; Chocholoušková and Pyšek, 2003; Deutschewitz et al., 2003; Kühn et al., 2003; Chytrý et al., 2005; Wania et…”
• Diversity of Central European urban biota: effects of human‐made habitat types on plants and land snails (2011, background): “This is in keeping with other studies, which have found that such sites usually contain both rare and common species (Sukopp, 1990; Kowarik, 1995; Angold et al., 2006; Lenzin et al., 2007) and many native plant species combined with some invasive species (e.g. Buddleia davidii, Fallopia japonica…”
• Diversity, abundance, and species composition of ants in urban green spaces (2010, unknown): “Urbanization is a major threat to biodiversity (Kowarik 1995; McIntyre 2000; Marzluff 2001; McKinney 2002; Miller and Hobbs 2002).”
• Plant species composition in green spaces within the built-up areas of Beijing, China (2010, background): “For example, the proportion of non-native plant species increases from 6% in nature preserves outside the city of Berlin, Germany, to 25% in the suburbs, and to 54% in the most intensively urbanized central areas (Kowarik 1995).”
• Changes in the Functional Composition of a Central European Urban Flora over Three Centuries (2010, background): “, 1997); the high proportion of sealed surfaces reduces infiltration capacity and groundwater replenishment (Sukopp, 1998); proportions of native species decrease, while proportions of non-native species increase (Kühn et al., 2004a; Kowarik, 2008); compositional Contents lists available at ScienceD”
• Citizen Science as a Tool for Augmenting Museum Collection Data from Urban Areas (2017, background): “…negative impacts on local ecosystems, and can lead to changing species assemblages and decreases in species diversity (Mackin-Rogalska et al., 1988; Kowarik, 1995; McIntyre, 2000; Blair, 2001; McKinney, 2002; Alvey, 2006; Ditchkoff et al., 2006; Zhao et al., 2006; Grimm et al., 2008a,b; Ren et…”
• Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals (2008, background): “For example, the proportion of nonnative plant species rises from 6% in nature preserves outside the city of Berlin, Germany to 25% in the suburbs to 54% in the most intensively urbanized central areas (Kowarik 1995).”
• Prevalence of alien versus native species of woody plants in Berlin differs between habitats and at different scales. (2013, background): “Residence time is known to be an important predictor of plant invasions (Pyšek et al. 2009), and species from the former sources generally have been present for a longer time in central Europe and thus more likely to have escaped and naturalized than species from the latter sources (Kowarik 1995b).”