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Interactions within Invasive Ecosystems

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Ecology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2024 | Viewed by 787

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Weitao Li

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CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla 666303, China
Interests: microbial community assembly; plant–soil feedback underlying exotic plant invasions; remediation of soil legacy effects caused by exotic plant invasions
Prof. Dr. Yulong Zheng

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CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla 666303, China
Interests: biological invasion; plant physiology
Dr. Yangping Li

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CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla 666303, China
Interests: biological invasive ecology; rapid evolution of invasive plants; invasive plant–soil feedback; interaction between invasive plants and local biotic factors, and dynamic of its effect on natural systems and invasiveness over time

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In invaded regions, alien plants frequently evade predation pressure from both above- and below-ground organisms. Alien plants may trade off their resource allocation in response to their interactions with biota in invaded habitats. In invaded ecosystems, do the interactions between invasive plants and above- and below-ground organisms promote invasion or have more detrimental effects? How do these interactions adapt to environmental changes? What are the key factors that drive changes in interspecific interactions within invaded ecosystems? Investigating the newly established interactions of alien plants can contribute to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying plant invasion and enhance the theoretical framework of invasion ecology. Solutions based on species interactions can offer a theoretical foundation for preventing and managing the invasion of alien plants.

Dr. Weitao Li
Prof. Dr. Yulong Zheng
Dr. Yangping Li
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • exotic plant
  • invasion
  • interactions
  • soil biota
  • herbivore

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18 pages, 3363 KiB  
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Impacts of Soil Properties on Species Diversity and Structure in Alternanthera philoxeroides-Invaded and Native Plant Communities
by Hao Wu, Yuxin Liu, Tiantian Zhang, Mingxia Xu and Benqiang Rao
Plants 2024, 13(9), 1196; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13091196 - 25 Apr 2024
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Soil properties can affect plant population dynamics and the coexistence of native and invasive plants, thus potentially affecting community structure and invasion trends. However, the different impacts of soil physicochemical properties on species diversity and structure in native and invaded plant communities remain [...] Read more.
Soil properties can affect plant population dynamics and the coexistence of native and invasive plants, thus potentially affecting community structure and invasion trends. However, the different impacts of soil physicochemical properties on species diversity and structure in native and invaded plant communities remain unclear. In this study, we established a total of 30 Alternanthera philoxeroides-invaded plots and 30 control plots in an area at the geographical boundary between North and South China. We compared the differences in species composition between the invaded and native plant communities, and we then used the methods of regression analysis, redundancy analysis (RDA), and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) to examine the impacts of soil physicochemical properties on four α-diversity indices and the species distribution of these two types of communities. We found that A. philoxeroides invasion increased the difference between the importance values of dominant plant species, and the invasion coverage had a negative relationship with the soil-available potassium (R2 = 0.135; p = 0.046) and Patrick richness index (R2 = 0.322; p < 0.001). In the native communities, the species diversity was determined with soil chemical properties, the Patrick richness index, the Simpson dominance index, and the Shannon–Wiener diversity index, which all decreased with the increase in soil pH value, available potassium, organic matter, and ammonium nitrogen. However, in the invaded communities, the species diversity was determined by soil physical properties; the Pielou evenness index increased with increasing non-capillary porosity but decreased with increasing capillary porosity. The determinants of species distribution in the native communities were soil porosity and nitrate nitrogen, while the determinants in the invaded communities were soil bulk density and available potassium. In addition, compared with the native communities, the clustering degree of species distribution in the invaded communities intensified. Our study indicates that species diversity and distribution have significant heterogeneous responses to soil physicochemical properties between A. philoxeroides-invaded and native plant communities. Thus, we need to intensify the monitoring of soil properties in invaded habitats and conduct biotic replacement strategies based on the heterogeneous responses of native and invaded communities to effectively prevent the biotic homogenization that is caused by plant invasions under environmental changes. Full article
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