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Prescriptions for the Control of a Clonal Invasive Species Using Demographic Models.

ABSTRACT: Until recently, little research has focused on determination of the population dynamics of invasive species and evaluating their genetic variation. Consequently, not much is known of what drives clonal invasive species and their demography. Here, we describe the population dynamics of Kalanchoe delagoensis (Crassulaceae), considered invasive to several countries. We quantified the demography of a population in central Mexico using integral projection models (IPM) in a population that reproduced asexually exclusively through plantlets. The effect of clonal recruitment on population growth rate (λ) was evaluated by changing plantlet survival and simulating management scenarios that used previous data of watering and seven experimental herbicide treatments. The finite rate of population increase indicated that this Kalanchoe delagoensis population is growing (above one) and with water availability, growth rates will only accelerate. The IPM showed that plantlet survival and recruitment were the most critical steps in the cycle for the population, and simulations of different management scenarios showed that reducing plantlet survival significantly decreased λ only in two out of the seven herbicides used.

SUBMITTER: Arroyo-Cosultchi G

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8912375 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Prescriptions for the Control of a Clonal Invasive Species Using Demographic Models.

Arroyo-Cosultchi Gabriel G Golubov Jordan J Solórzano Jonathan V JV Mandujano Maria C MC

Plants (Basel, Switzerland) 20220303 5

Until recently, little research has focused on determination of the population dynamics of invasive species and evaluating their genetic variation. Consequently, not much is known of what drives clonal invasive species and their demography. Here, we describe the population dynamics of <i>Kalanchoe delagoensis</i> (Crassulaceae), considered invasive to several countries. We quantified the demography of a population in central Mexico using integral projection models (IPM) in a population that repr ...[more]

PMID: 35270159

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