Improving restoration to control plant invasions under climate change

2013 ◽  
pp. 203-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinfeng Guo ◽  
Steve Norman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Control Plant ◽  
Plant Invasions

scholarly journals Hiking trails as conduits for the spread of non-native species in mountain areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 1121-1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Liedtke ◽  
Agustina Barros ◽  
Franz Essl ◽  
Jonas J. Lembrechts ◽  
Ronja E. M. Wedegärtner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Native Species ◽  
Control Plant ◽  
Plant Invasions ◽  
Native Plant ◽  
Mountain Areas ◽  
Central Chile ◽  
Hiking Trails ◽  
Local Plant ◽  
Southern Central ◽  
Recreational Use

AbstractRoadsides are major pathways of plant invasions in mountain regions. However, the increasing importance of tourism may also turn hiking trails into conduits of non-native plant spread to remote mountain landscapes. Here, we evaluated the importance of such trails for plant invasion in five protected mountain areas of southern central Chile. We therefore sampled native and non-native species along 17 trails and in the adjacent undisturbed vegetation. We analyzed whether the number and cover of non-native species in local plant assemblages is related to distance to trail and a number of additional variables that characterize the abiotic and biotic environment as well as the usage of the trail. We found that non-native species at higher elevations are a subset of the lowland source pool and that their number and cover decreases with increasing elevation and with distance to trails, although this latter variable only explained 4–8% of the variation in the data. In addition, non-native richness and cover were positively correlated with signs of livestock presence but negatively with the presence of intact forest vegetation. These results suggest that, at least in the region studied, hiking trails have indeed fostered non-native species spread to higher elevations, although less efficiently than roadsides. As a corollary, appropriate planning and management of trails could become increasingly important to control plant invasions into mountains in a world which is warming and where visitation and recreational use of mountainous areas is expected to increase.

An integrated policy framework and plan of action to prevent and control plant invasions in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
Achyut Kumar Banerjee ◽  
Anzar Ahmad Khuroo ◽  
Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz ◽  
Vidushi Pant ◽  
Chinmay Patwardhan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Control Plant ◽  
Plant Invasions ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Integrated Policy ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals Will climate change increase the risk of plant invasions into mountains?

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 530-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blaise Petitpierre ◽  
Keith McDougall ◽  
Tim Seipel ◽  
Olivier Broennimann ◽  
Antoine Guisan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Plant Invasions

Will Climate Change Promote Alien Plant Invasions?

2007 ◽  
pp. 197-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilfried Thuiller ◽  
David M. Richardson ◽  
Guy F. Midgley
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Plant Invasions ◽  
Alien Plant

scholarly journals Potential Risks of Plant Invasions in Protected Areas of Sri Lanka under Climate Change with Special Reference to Threatened Vertebrates

Climate ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Champika S. Kariyawasam ◽  
Lalit Kumar ◽  
Sujith S. Ratnayake
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Plant Invasions ◽  
Alien Plant Species ◽  
Alien Plant ◽  
Tropical Island ◽  
Invasive Alien Plant ◽  
Climate Suitability ◽  
Potential Risks

There is substantial global concern over the potential impacts of plant invasions on native biodiversity in protected areas (PAs). Protected areas in tropical island countries that host rich biodiversity face an imminent risk from the potential spread of invasive alien plant species. Thus, the aim of this study was to gain a general understanding of the potential risks of multiple plant invasions in PAs located in the tropical island of Sri Lanka under projected climate change. We conducted a further analysis of a multi-species climate suitability assessment, based on a previous study using the Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) modeling approach, and tested how species invasion may change in protected areas under climate change. We evaluated how the climate suitability of 14 nationally recognized invasive alien plant species (IAPS) will vary within PAs and outside PAs by 2050 under two climate change scenarios, representative concentration pathways (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5. Our findings suggest that there will be increased risks from multiple IAPS inside PAs and outside PAs in Sri Lanka in the future; however, the potential risk is comparatively less in PAs. We provide an overview of the species richness of selected threatened vertebrate groups, which can be potentially impacted by IAPS in PAs. The findings of this study highlight important implications for the strategic management of plant invasions in PAs in order to safeguard native biodiversity, with special reference to vertebrates.

scholarly journals Global trade will accelerate plant invasions in emerging economies under climate change

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 4128-4140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanno Seebens ◽  
Franz Essl ◽  
Wayne Dawson ◽  
Nicol Fuentes ◽  
Dietmar Moser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Plant Invasions ◽  
Global Trade
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