Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success
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Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success
van Kleunen, M.; Xu, X.; Yang, Q.; Maurel, N.; Zhang, Z.; Dawson, W. & Essl, F. et al. (2020)
Nature Communications, 11(1) pp. 3201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16982-3
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- Authors
- van Kleunen, Mark; Xu, Xinyi; Yang, Qiang; Maurel, Noëlie; Zhang, Zhijie; Dawson, Wayne; Essl, Franz; Kreft, Holger ; Pergl, Jan; Pyšek, Petr; Weigelt, Patrick ; Moser, Dietmar; Lenzner, Bernd; Fristoe, Trevor S
- Abstract
- Humans cultivate thousands of economic plants (i.e. plants with economic value) outside their native ranges. To analyze how this contributes to naturalization success, we combine global databases on economic uses and naturalization success of the world's seed plants. Here we show that naturalization likelihood is 18 times higher for economic than non-economic plants. Naturalization success is highest for plants grown as animal food or for environmental uses (e.g. ornamentals), and increases with number of uses. Taxa from the Northern Hemisphere are disproportionately over-represented among economic plants, and economic plants from Asia have the greatest naturalization success. In regional naturalized floras, the percentage of economic plants exceeds the global percentage and increases towards the equator. Phylogenetic patterns in the naturalized flora partly result from phylogenetic patterns in the plants we cultivate. Our study illustrates that accounting for the intentional introduction of economic plants is key to unravelling drivers of plant naturalization.
- Issue Date
- 2020
- Journal
- Nature Communications
- Organization
- Zentrum für Biodiversität und Nachhaltige Landnutzung ; Fakultät für Forstwissenschaften und Waldökologie ; Burckhardt-Institut ; Abteilung Biodiversität, Makroökologie und Biogeographie
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Language
- English