Restoration of Arthropod Assemblages in a Spartina Salt Marsh following Removal of the Invasive Plant Phragmites australis

By Claudio Gratton, R. Denno. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Experimental plant invasion reduces arthropod abundance and richness across multiple trophic levels (2010, background): “In support of this hypothesis, similarly negative effects on predators have been found for the grass Phragmites in salt marsh invasions (Gratton and Denno 2005).”
Shade Alone Reduces Adult Dragonfly (Odonata: Libellulidae) Abundance (2008, background): “Invasion by non-native plants is a disturbance that increasingly affects insect behavior through alteration of physical habitat structure (Samways et al. 1996; Gratton and Denno 2005 ).”
Biological consequences of invasion by reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) (2009, background): “By detailing speciesspecific changes to entire wetland arthropod communities invaded by Phragmites australis, Gratton and Denno (2005, 2006) have provided some of the most conclusive results thus far that arthropod trophic and food web structure are directly linked with native plant resources lost”
Potential impacts of invasive Spartina alterniflora on spring bird communities at Chongming Dongtan, a Chinese wetland of international importance (2009, background): “Moreover, Phragmites habitats support low abundance of macroinvertebrates and insects compared to the Spartina habitats in North America (Angradi et al., 2001; Gratton and Denno, 2005), and Spartina habitats support low abundance of macroinvertebrates and insects compared to the Phragmites habitats ”
Effects of saltmarsh invasion by Spartina alterniflora on arthropod community structure and diets (2009, methodology): “They may competitively exclude native plants on which native animals (e.g. insects, benthos, birds) may depend (Benoit and Askins 1999; Gratton and Denno 2005), which may in turn influence the structure and functioning of native ecosystems (Vitousek et al. 1997; McKinney and Lockwood 1999; Dukes…”
Hybridization of invasive Phragmites australis with a native subspecies in North America (2009, background): “The primary motivation for control of Phragmites is that invasions lead to faunal habitat degradation and declines in the species richness of native plants (Farnsworth and Meyerson 1999; Benoit and Askins 1999; Meyerson et al. 2000, 2009; Gratton and Denno 2005, 2006).”
Ecophysiological characteristics of invasive Spartina alterniflora and native species in salt marshes of Yangtze River estuary, China (2009, background): “alterniflora in the USA were considered to result from variations in the soil salinity of the salt marshes (Burdick et al., 2001; Gratton and Denno, 2005; Vasquez et al., 2006).”
Impact of plant invasions on local arthropod communities: a meta‐analysis (2014, background): “This lack of synthesis is surprising, because arthropods are a common, abundant and functionally important group of organisms in most ecosystems (Crooks 2002; Gratton & Denno 2005).”