Propagule pressure and an invasion syndrome determine invasion success in a plant community model.

ABSTRACT: The success of species invasions depends on multiple factors, including propagule pressure, disturbance, productivity, and the traits of native and non-native species. While the importance of many of these determinants has already been investigated in relative isolation, they are rarely studied in combination. Here, we address this shortcoming by exploring the effect of the above-listed factors on the success of invasions using an individual-based mechanistic model. This approach enables us to explicitly control environmental factors (temperature as surrogate for productivity, disturbance, and propagule pressure) as well as to monitor whole-community trait distributions of environmental adaptation, mass, and dispersal abilities. We simulated introductions of plant individuals to an oceanic

SUBMITTER: Vedder D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8668767 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature