Climatic niche divergence and habitat suitability of eight alien invasive weeds in China under climate change.

ABSTRACT: Testing climatic niche divergence and modeling habitat suitability under conditions of climate change are important for developing strategies to limit the introduction and expansion of alien invasive weeds (AIWs) and providing important ecological and evolutionary insights. We assessed climatic niches in both native and invasive ranges as well as habitat suitability under climate change for eight representative Chinese AIWs from the American continent. We used climatic variables associated with occurrence records and developed ecological niche models with Maxent. Interestingly, the climatic niches of all eight AIWs diverged significantly between the native and invasive ranges (the American continent and China). Furthermore, the AIWs showed larger climatic niche breadths in the invasive ran

SUBMITTER: Wan JZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5330889 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature