Alien flora of Europe: Species diversity, temporal trends, geographical patterns and research needs

Preslia

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 101-149

  Lambdon, Philip W ^a,b,r   Pyšek, Petr ^c,d   Basnou, Corina ^e   Hejda, Martin ^c,d   Arianoutsou, Margarita ^f   Essl, Franz ^g   Jarošík, Vojtěch ^c,d   Pergl, Jan ^c   Winter, Marten ^h   Anastasiu, Paulina ⁱ   Andriopoulos, Pavlos ^f   Bazos, Ioannis ^f   Brundu, Giuseppe ^j   Celesti Grapow, Laura ^k   Chassot, Philippe ^l   Delipetrou, Pinelopi ^f   Josefsson, Melanie ^m   Kark, Salit ⁿ   Klotz, Stefan ^h   Kokkoris, Yannis ^f   Kühn, Ingolf ^h   Marchante, Hélia ^o   Perglová, Irena ^c   Pino, Joan ^e   Vilà, Montserrat ^p   Zikos, Andreas ^f   Roy, David B ^a   Hulme, Philip E ^q   more..

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^g ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^h HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^k SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^m SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (Sweden)

ⁿ HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^o INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^p DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^q LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^r RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Alien plants; Biogeographical pattern; Donor regions; Europe; Habitat affinity; Naturalization; Neophytes; Plant invasions; Residence time; Temporal trends

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; FLORA; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATURALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHUS; ASTERACEAE; BRASSICACEAE; CHENOPODIUM; CONYZA; CONYZA CANADENSIS; COTONEASTER; FABACEAE; HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS TUBEROSUS; OENOTHERA; OXALIS; PANICUM; POACEAE; ROBINIA; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA; ROSACEAE; SOLANUM;

EID: 48249103890     PISSN: 00327786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (110)

1. Aiken L. S. & West S. G. (1991): Multiple regression: testing and interpreting interactions. - Sage, Newbury Park, USA.
2. Albach D. C., Meudt H. M. & Oxelman B. (2005): Piecing together the "new" Plantaginaceae. - Amer. J. Bot. 92: 297-315.
3. Bell C. E., Wilen C. A. & Stanton A. E. (2003): Invasive plants of horticultural origin. - Hortscience 38: 14-16.
4. Blondel J. & Aronson J. (1999): Biology and wildlife of the Mediterranean Region. - Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, UK.
5. Cadotte M. W. & Lovett-Doust J. (2001): Ecological and taxonomic differences between native and introduced plants of southwestern Ontario. - Ecoscience 8: 230-238.
6. Cadotte M. W., Murray B. R. & Lovett-Doust J. (2006): Ecological patterns and biological invasions: using regional species inventories in macroecology. - Biol. Invas. 8: 809-821.
7. Carlton J. T. (1996): Biological invasions and cryptogenic species. - Ecology 77: 1653-1655.
8. Castro S. A., Muñoz M. & Jaksic F. M. (2007): Transit towards floristic homogenization on oceanic islands in the south-eastern Pacific: comparing pre-European and current floras. - J. Biogeogr 34: 213-222.
9. Celesti-Grapow L., Alessandrini A., Arrigoni P. V., Banfi E., Bovio M., Brundu G., Cagiotti M., Camarda I., Bernardo L., Conti F., Fascetti S., Galasso G., Gubellini L., La Valva V., Lucchese F., Marchiori S., Mazzola P., Peccenini S., Pretto F., Poldini L., Prosser E, Siniscalco C., Villani M. C., Viegi L., Wilhalm T. & Blasi C. (2008): The inventory of the non-native flora of Italy. - Plant Biosystems 142 (in press).
10. Chytrý M., Jarošik V, Pyšek P, Hájek O., Knollová I., Tichý L. & Danihelka J. (2008a): Separating habitat invasibility by alien plants from the actual level of invasion. - Ecology (in press).
11. Chytrý M., Maskell L., Pino J., Pyšek P., Vilà M., Font X. & Smart S. (2008b): Habitat invasions by alien plants: a quantitative comparison between Mediterranean, subcontinental and oceanic regions of Europe. - J. Appl. Ecol. 45: 448-458.
12. Chytrý M., Pyšek P., Tichý L., Knollová I. & Danihelka J. (2005): Invasions by alien plants in the Czech Republic: a quantitative assessment across habitats. - Preslia 77: 339-354.
13. Clement E. J. & Foster M. C. (1994): Alien plants of the British Isles. A provisional catalogue of vascular plants (excluding grasses). - Botanical Society of the British Isles, London.
14. Crawley M. J. (1993): GLIM for ecologists. - Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
15. Crawley M. J. (2002): Statistical computing: an introduction to data analysis using S-Plus. - J. Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
16. Crawley M. J., Harvey P. H. & Purvis A. (1996): Comparative ecology of the native and alien floras of the British Isles. - Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London, Series B 351: 1251-1259.
17. Daehler C. C. (2001): Darwin's naturalization hypothesis revisited. - Amer. Natur. 158: 324-330.
18. Daehler C. C. (2006): Invasibility of tropical islands by introduced plants: partitioning the role of isolation and propagule pressure. - Preslia 78: 389-404.
19. DAISIE (eds) (2008): The handbook of alien species in Europe. - Springer, Berlin (in press).
20. Davies C. E. & Moss D. (2003): EUNIS habitat classification, August 2003. - European Topic Centre on Nature Protection and Biodiversity, Paris.
21. Essl F. (2007): From ornamental to detrimental? The incipient invasion of Central Europe by Paulownia tomentosa. - Preslia 79: 377-389.
22. Essl F. & Lambdon P. (2008): The alien bryophytes and lichens of Europe. - In: DAISIE (eds), The handbook of alien species in Europe, Springer, Berlin (in press).
23. Essl F. & Rabitsch W. (eds) (2002): Neobiota in Österreich. - Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Wien.
24. Genovesi P. & Shine C. (2003): European strategy on invasive alien species. - Council of Europe T-PVS 2003/7.
25. Guillerm J. L. (1991): Weed invasion in agricultural areas. - In: Groves R.H. & di Castri F. (eds), Biogeography of Mediterranean Invasions, p. 379-392, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
26. Hamilton M. A., Murray B. R., Cadotte M. W., Hose G. C., Baker A. C., Harris C. J. & Licari D. (2005): Life-history correlates of plant invasiveness at regional and continental scales. - Ecol. Lett. 8: 1066-1074.
27. Hijmans R. J., Cameron S. E., Parra J. L., Jones P. G. & Jarvis A. (2005): Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. - Intern. J. Climatol. 25: 1965-1978.
28. Hill M., Baker R., Broad G., Chandler P. J., Copp G. H., Ellis J., Jones D., Hoyland C., Laing I., Longshaw M., Moore N., Parrott D., Pearman D., Preston Ch., Smith R. M. & Waters R. (2005): Audit of non-native species in England. - Report to English Nature, Peterborough, UK.
29. Hulme P. E. (2003): Biological invasions: winning the science battles but losing the conservation war? - Oryx 37: 178-193.
30. Hulme P. E. (2007): Biological invasions in Europe: drivers, pressures, states, impacts and responses. - In: Hester R. & Harrison R. M. (eds), Biodiversity under threat issues in environmental science and technology, 25, p. 56-80, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge.
31. Hulme P. E., Bacher S., Kenis M., Klotz S., Kühn I., Minchin D., Nentwig W., Olenin S., Panov V., Pergl J., Pyšek P., Roque A., Sol D., Solarz W. & Vilà M. (2008a): Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework for integrating pathways into policy. - J. Appl. Ecol. 45: 403-414.
32. Hulme P. E., Brundu G., Camarda I., Dalias P., Lambdon P., Lloret F., Medail F., Moragues E., Suehs C., Traveset A. & Troumbis A. (2008b): Assessing the risks of alien plant invasions on Mediterranean islands. - In: Tokarska-Guzik B., Brock J. H., Brundu G., Child L. E., Pyšek P. & Daehler C. (eds), Plant invasions: human perception, ecological impacts and management, p. 39-56, Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.
33. Hulme P. E., Roy D. B., Cunha T. & Larsson T.-B. (2008c): A pan-European inventory of alien species: rationale, implementation and implications for managing biological invasions. - In: DAISIE (eds), The handbook of alien species in Europe, Springer, Berlin (in press).
34. International Organization for Plant Information (2006): International Organization for Plant Information website. - URL: [http:// bgbm3.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iopi/gpc/default.asp].
35. International Plant Names Index (2006): The International Plant Names Index. - URL: [http://www.ipni.org/index.html].
36. International Road Federation (2002): World Road Statistics 2002 on CD-ROM. - International Road Federation, Geneva.
37. Jahodová Š., Fröberg L., Pyšek P., Geltman D., Trybush S. & Karp A. (2007): Taxonomy, identification, genetic relationships and distribution of large Heracleum species in Europe. - In: Pyšek P., Cock M. J. W., Nentwig W. & Ravn H. P. (eds), Ecology and management of giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), p. 1-19, CAB International, Wallingford, UK.
38. Kerguélen M. (1999): Index Synonomique de la Fiore de France. - URL: [http://www.dijon.inra.fr/flore-france/index.htm].
39. Klotz S., Kühn I. & Durka W. (eds) (2002): BIOLFLOR - Eine Datenbank mit biologisch-ökologischen Merkmalen zur Flora von Deutschland. - Schriftenreihe für Vegetationskunde 38: 1-334.
40. Kollmann J., Bañuelos M. J. & Nielsen S. L. (2007): Effects of virus infection on growth of the invasive alien Impatiens glandulifera. - Preslia 79: 33-44.
41. Kühn I., Brandenburg M. & Klotz S. (2004): Why do alien plant species that reproduce in natural habitats occur more frequently? - Diversity Distrib. 10: 417-425.
42. Kühn I. & Klotz S. (2003): The alien flora of Germany - basics from a new German database. - In: Child L. E., Brock J. H., Brundu G., Prach K., Pyšek P., Wade P. M. & Williamson M. (eds), Plant invasions: ecological threats and management solutions, p. 89-100, Backhuys, Leiden.
43. Kühn I. & Klotz S. (2006): Urbanization and homogenization - comparing the floras of urban and rural areas in Germany. - Biol. Conserv. 127: 292-300.
44. Kühn I., May R., Brandl R. & Klotz S. (2003): Plant distribution patterns in Germany: will aliens match natives? - Feddes Repert. 114: 559-573.
45. Lambdon P. W. (2008a): Is invasiveness a legacy of evolution? Phylogenetic patterns in the alien flora of Mediterranean islands. - J. Ecol. 96: 46-57.
46. Lambdon P. W. (2008b): Why is habitat breadth correlated strongly with range size? Trends amongst the alien and native floras of Mediterranean islands. - J. Biogeog. 35: 1095-1105.
47. Lambdon P. W. & Hulme P. E. (2006): Predicting the invasion success of Mediterranean alien plants from their introduction characteristics. - Ecography 29: 853-865
48. Legendre P. & Legendre L. (1998): Numerical ecology. Ed. 2. - Elsevier, Amsterdam.
49. Legume Web (2006): International Legume Database and Information Service. - URL: [http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb].
50. Lichstein J. W., Simons T. R., Shriner S. A. & Franzreb K. E. (2002): Spatial autocorrelation and autoregressive models in ecology. - Ecol. Monogr. 72: 445-463.
51. Lloret F, Médail F., Brundu G., Camarda I., Moragues E., Rita J., Lambdon P. & Hulme P. E. (2005): Species attributes and invasion success by alien plants on Mediterranean islands. - J. Ecol. 93: 512-520.
52. Lloret F., Médail F., Brundu G. & Hulme P.E. (2004): Local and regional abundance of exotic plant species on Mediterranean islands: Are species traits important? - Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 13: 37-45.
53. Lonsdale M. (1999): Global patterns of plant invasions and the concept of invasibility. - Ecology 80: 1522-1536.
54. Mabberley D. (1997): The plant book. Ed. 2. - Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
55. Mack R. N. (2000): Cultivation fosters plant naturalization by reducing environmental stochasticity. - Biol. Invas. 2: 111-122.
56. Mack R. N., Simberloff D., Lonsdale W. M., Evans H., Clout M. & Bazzaz F. A. (2000): Biotic invasions: causes, epidemiology, global consequences, and control. - Ecol. Appl. 10: 689-710.
57. Magallón S. & Sanderson M. J. (2001): Absolute diversification rates in Angiosperm clades. - Evolution 55: 1762-1780.
58. McKinney M. (2001): Effects of human population, area, and time on non-native plant and fish diversity in the United States. - Biol. Conserv. 100: 243-252.
59. McKinney M. (2004): Measuring floristic homogenization by non-native plants in North America. - Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 13: 47-53.
60. McKinney M. (2006): Correlated non-native species richness of birds, mammals, herptiles and plants: scale effects of area, human population and native plants. - Biol. Invas. 8: 415-425.
61. Mihulka S. & Pyšek P. (2001): Invasion history of Oenothera congeners in Europe: a comparative study of spreading rates in the last 200 years. - J. Biogeogr. 28: 597-609.
62. Mihulka S., Pyšek P., Martínkovi J. & Jarošik V. (2006): Invasiveness of Oenothera congeners alien to Europe: Jack of all trades, master of invasion? - Persp. Plant Ecol. Evolut. Syst. 8: 83-96.
63. Moravcová L., Pyšek P., Pergl J., Perglová I. & Jarošik V. (2006): Seasonal pattern of germination and seed longevity in the invasive species Heracleum mantegazzianum. - Preslia 78: 287-301.
64. Miller C., Kettunen M. & Shine C. (2006): Scope options for EU action on invasive alien species (IAS) Final report for the European Commission. - Institute for European Environmental Policy JEEP), Brussels, Belgium.
65. Mooney H. A. & Hobbs R. J. (eds) (2000): Invasive species in a changing world. - Island Press, Washington.
66. Olden J. D., LeRoy Poff N., Douglas M. R., Douglas M. E. & Fausch K. D. (2004): Ecological and evolutionary consequences of biotic homogenization. - Trends Ecol. Evol. 19: 18-24.
67. Palmer M. W. (2006): Scale dependence of native and alien species richness in North American floras. - Preslia 78: 427-436.
68. Perglová I., Pergl J. & Pyšek P. (2006): Flowering phenology and reproductive effort of the invasive alien plant Heracleum mantegazzianum. - Preslia 78: 265-285.
69. Pimentel D., Lach L., Zuniga R. & Morrison D. (2000): Environmental and economic costs of nonindigenous species in the United States. - Bioscience 50: 53-65.
70. Pimentel D., McNair S., Janecka J., Wightman J., Simmonds C., O'Connell C., Wong E., Russel L., Zern J., Aquino T. & Tsomondo T. (2001): Economic and environmental threats of alien plant, animal, and microbe invasions. - Agroecosystems and Environment 84: 1-20.
71. Preston C. D., Pearman D. A. & Dines T. D. (2002): New atlas of the British and Irish flora. - Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
72. Preston C. D., Pearman D. A. & Hall A. R. (2004): Archaeophytes in Britain. - Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 145: 257-294.
73. Pyšek P. (2003): How reliable are data on alien species in Flora Europaea? - Flora 198: 499-507.
74. Pyšek P. & Hulme P. E. (2005): Spatio-temporal dynamics of plant invasions: linking pattern to process. - Ecoscience 12: 302-315.
75. Pyšek P. & Jarošik V. (2005): Residence time determines the distribution of alien plants. - In: Inderjit (ed.), Invasive plants: ecological and agricultural aspects, p. 77-96, Birkhäuser Verlag-AG, Basel.
76. Pyšek P., Jarošik V., Chytrý M., Kropáč Z., Tichý L. & Wild J. (2005): Alien plants in temperate weed communities: Prehistoric and recent invaders occupy different habitats. - Ecology 86: 772-785.
77. Pyšek P., Jarošík V. & Kučera T. (2002a): Patterns of invasion in temperate nature reserves. - Biol. Conserv. 104: 13-24.
78. Pyšek P. & Richardson D. M. (2006): The biogeography of naturalization in alien plants. - J. Biogeogr. 33: 2040-2050.
79. Pyšek P. & Richardson D. M. (2007): Traits associated with invasiveness in alien plants: where do we stand? - In: Nentwig W. (ed.), Biological invasions, Ecological Studies 193, p. 97-125, Springer-Verlag, Berlin & Heidelberg.
80. Pyšek P., Richardson D. M. & Jarošik V. (2006): Who cites who in the invasion zoo: insights from an analysis of the most highly cited papers in invasion ecology. - Preslia 78: 437-468.
81. Pyšek P., Richardson D. M., Rejmánek M., Webster G., Williamson M. & Kirschner J. (2004a): Alien plants in checklists and floras: towards better communication between taxonomists and ecologists. - Taxon 53: 131-143.
82. Pyšek P., Richardson D. M. & Williamson M. (2004b): Predicting and explaining plant invasions through analysis of source area floras: some critical considerations. - Diversity Distrib. 10: 179-187.
83. Pyšek P., Sádlo J. & Mandák B. (2002b): Catalogue of alien plants of the Czech Republic. - Preslia 74:97-186.
84. Pyšek P., Sádlo J. & Mandák B. (2003a): Alien flora of the Czech Republic, its composition, structure and history. - In: Child L. E., Brock J. H., Brundu G., Prach K., Pyšek P., Wade P. M. & Williamson M. (eds), Plant invasions: Ecological threats and management solutions, p. 113-130, Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.
85. Pyšek P., Sádlo J., Mandák B. & Jarošik V. (2003b): Czech alien flora and a historical pattern of its formation: what came first to Central Europe? - Oecologia 135: 122-130.
86. Qian H., McKinney M. L. & Kühn I. (2008): Effects of introduced species on floristic similarity: comparing two US states. - Basic Appl. Ecol. (in press, doi:10.1016/j.baae.2007.11.004).
87. Quinn G. P. & Keough M. J. (2002): Experimental design and data analysis for biologists. - Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
88. Rejmánek M. (2000): Invasive plants: approaches and predictions. - Austral Ecol. 25: 497-506.
89. Reynolds S. C. P. (2002): A catalogue of alien plants in Ireland. - National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin Occasional Papers 14: 1-414.
90. Richardson D. M. & Pyšek P. (2006): Plant invasions: merging the concepts of species invasiveness and community invasibility. - Progr. Phys. Geogr. 30: 409-431.
91. Richardson D. M., Pyšek P., Rejmánek M., Barbour M. G., Panetta F. D. & West C. J. (2000): Naturalization and invasion of alien plants: concepts and definitions. - Diversity Distrib. 6: 93-107.
92. Roques A., Rabitsch W., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Nentwig W. & Kenis M. (2008): Alien terrestrial invertebrates of Europe. - In: DAISIE (eds), The handbook of alien species in Europe, Springeg Berlin (in press).
93. Sádlo J., Chytrý M. & Pyšek P. (2007): Regional species pools of vascular plants in habitats of the Czech Republic. - Preslia 79: 303-321.
94. Sax D. F. (2001): Latitudinal gradients and geographic ranges of exotic species: implications for biogeography. - J. Biogeogr. 28: 139-150.
95. Schäfer H. (2002): Flora of the Azores. A field guide. - Margraf Verlag, Weikersheim, Netherlands.
96. Schäfer H. (2003): Chorology and diversity of the Azorean flora. - Gebründer Borntraeger, Stuttgart.
97. Sokal R. R. & Rohlf F J. (1995): Biometry. Ed. 3. - Freeman, New York, USA.
98. Stace C. (1991): New flora of the British Isles. - Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
99. Stevens P. F. (2001 onwards): Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 7, May 2006. - URL: [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/Apweb].
100. Stohlgren T., Jarnevich C., Chong G. W. & Evangelista P. H. (2006): Scale and plant invasions: a theory of biotic acceptance. - Preslia 78: 405-426.
101. Taylor B. W. & Irwin R. E. (2004): Linking economic activities to the distribution of exotic plants. - Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 101: 17725-17730.
102. ter Braak C. J. F. & Šmilauer P. (2002): CANOCO reference manual and CanoDraw for Windows user's guide: software for canonical community ordination. Version 4.5. - Microcomputer Power, Ithaca, NY.
103. Tutin T. G., Burges N. A., Chater A. O., Edmondson J. R., Heywood V. H., Moore D. M., Valentine D. H., Walters S. M. & Webb D. A. (1993): Flora Europaea. Vol. 1. Ed 2. - Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
104. Tutin T. G., Heywood V. H., Burges N. A., Moore D. M., Valentine D. H., Walters S. M. & Webb D. A. (eds) (1964-1980): Flora Europaea. Vols. 1-5. - Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
105. Vilà M. & Pujadas J. (2001): Land-use and socio-economic correlates of plant invasions in European and North African countries. - Biol. Conserv. 100: 397-401.
106. Walker K. J. (2007): The last thirty five years: recent changes in the flora of the British Isles. - Watsonia 26: 291-302.
107. Weber E. (2003): Invasive plant species of the world. A reference guide to environmental weeds. - CAB International Publishing, Wallingford.
108. Weber E. F. (1997): The alien flora of Europe: a taxonomic and biogeographic overview. - J. Veget. Sci. 8: 565-572.
109. Weidema I. R. (ed.) (2000): Introduced species in the Nordic countries. - Nord Environment 13: 1-242.
110. Wittenberg R. & Cock M. J. W. (2001): Invasive alien species: A toolkit for best prevention and management practices. - CAB International, Wallingford.