Climate change both facilitates and inhibits invasive plant ranges in New England.

ABSTRACT: Forecasting ecological responses to climate change, invasion, and their interaction must rely on understanding underlying mechanisms. However, such forecasts require extrapolation into new locations and environments. We linked demography and environment using experimental biogeography to forecast invasive and native species' potential ranges under present and future climate in New England, United States to overcome issues of extrapolation in novel environments. We studied two potentially nonequilibrium invasive plants' distributions, Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) and Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry), each paired with their native ecological analogs to better understand demographic drivers of invasions. Our models predict that climate change will considerably redu

SUBMITTER: Merow C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5402445 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature