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- Title
Effects of native species richness on reproduction of invasive Bidens pilosa vary with nutrient supply.
- Authors
Gao, Fang-Lei; Roiloa, Sergio; Xia, Jiangbao; Ren, Jiayun; Zou, Meiling; Zhao, Ximei; Yu, Fei-Hai
- Abstract
Background: Both increasing native species diversity and reducing nutrient availability can increase the ability of native plant communities to resist alien plant invasions. Furthermore, native species diversity and nutrient availability may interact to influence alien plant invasions. So far, however, little is known about the interactive effect of species diversity and nutrient availability on reproduction of alien invasive plants. We constructed native plant communities with one, four or eight species under low and high nutrient supply and then let them be invaded by the invasive alien plant Bidens pilosa. Results: At both high and low nutrient supply, increasing native species richness significantly increased aboveground biomass of the native plant community and decreased aboveground biomass and biomass proportion of the invader B. pilosa. Reproductive biomass of B. pilosa decreased significantly with increasing native species richness under high nutrient supply, but this effect was not observed under low nutrient supply. Net biodiversity effect on seed mass of B. pilosa decreased significantly with increasing native species diversity under high nutrient supply, but not under low nutrient supply. This was mainly because the selection effect became dominant with increasing species richness under high nutrient supply. Conclusions: Our study suggest that native species richness and nutrient supply can interact to influence reproduction of invasive alien plant species and that measures to help maintain a high level of native species richness and to reduce nutrient supply could be useful for efficient invasive plant control.
- Subjects
NATIVE species; INTRODUCED species; SPECIES diversity; INTRODUCED plants; INVASIVE plants; PLANT invasions; NATIVE plants
- Publication
Ecological Processes, 2024, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2192-1709
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s13717-024-00527-3