Using multiple traits to assess the potential of introduced and native vines to proliferate in a tropical region.

ABSTRACT: Predicting the invasive potential of introduced species remains an ongoing challenge due to the multiple interacting regional and global processes that facilitate the introduction and proliferation of alien species. This may be particularly true in regions where native species are increasingly reported as expanding and impacting ecosystems in ways indistinguishable from alien ones. Current approaches to assess the invasive potential of plants may be limited by the choice of traits used and the exclusion of native species. To overcome these limitations, we develop a novel approach that focuses on all species-native and alien-within a functional group of plants to predict their proliferation status. Our approach relied on the development of an extensive database of extrinsic and intrinsic tr

SUBMITTER: Delgado DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5192952 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature