An overview of invasive plants in Brazil.
By R. D. Zenni, S. Ziller. 2011
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An overview of invasive plants in Brazil). Alien plants are known to occur in Brazil since the 18 th century when African grasses started to be recorded in pastures near Rio de Janeiro. In the beginning of the 19 th century two royal decrees (July, 1809 and July, 1810) offered grants and tax exemption to everyone who would introduce plants of economic value. Nowadays, there are 117 plant species recognized as invasive or established and with invasive potential in Brazil and an unknown number of introduced plant species. Some of the most pervasive invasive species are Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam. and Hedychium coronarium Konig in tropical ombrophilous forest, Hovenia dulcis Thunb. in subtropical ombrophilous forest and subtropical semi-deciduous forest, Pinus taeda L. and Pinus elliottii Engelm. in subtropical ombrophilous forest and steppe, Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. in stepic-savanna, Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. ex Kunth in tropical and subtropical semi-deciduous forest, Melinis minutiflora P. Beauv. in the Brazilian savannas, and Eragrostis plana Nees in the steppe. The purpose of this article is to fill a knowledge gap on alien species that are invasive in Brazil and where they are invading by summarizing data obtained by joint efforts of the Horus Institute for Environmental Conservation and Development, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN) invasive species thematic network (I3N), and the Brazilian Ministry of Environment (MMA) in the last six years.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Unwelcome exchange: International trade as a direct and indirect driver of biological invasions worldwide (2021, background): “In addition, new crops such as the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) can themselves spread beyond cultivated areas to become invasive alien species in regions where they are not native.(100) The growth of urban areas also results in land-use change, as natural and agricultural areas are fragmente”
- The elephant in the room: the role of failed invasions in understanding invasion biology (2013, background): “For example, the South African lovegrass Eragrostis plana currently invades more than two million hectares in Brazil but only in degraded or overgrazed steppes (Zenni and Ziller 2011).”