A global assessment of a large monocot family highlights the need for group-specific analyses of invasiveness.

ABSTRACT: Significant progress has been made in understanding biological invasions recently, and one of the key findings is that the determinants of naturalization and invasion success vary from group to group. Here, we explore this variation for one of the largest plant families in the world, the Araceae. This group provides an excellent opportunity for identifying determinants of invasiveness in herbaceous plants, since it is one of the families most popular with horticulturalists, with species occupying various habitats and comprising many different life forms. We first developed a checklist of 3494 species of Araceae using online databases and literature sources. We aimed to determine whether invasiveness across the introduction-naturalization-invasion continuum is associated to particular trait

SUBMITTER: Moodley D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4804228 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature