Germination of invasive plant seeds after digestion by horses in California

Natural Areas Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 356-362

  Quinn, Lauren D ^a   Kolipinski, Mietek ^a,b   Coelho, Vânia R ^a   Davis, Bonnie ^a   Vianney, John Mary ^a   Batjargal, Orgiltuya ^a   Alas, Monika ^a   Ghosh, Sibdas ^a  

^a DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Horse feces; Horse manure; Invasive plant germination; Non native plants; Weed seeds

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FECES; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; HORSE; INVASIVE SPECIES; IRRIGATION; NATIONAL PARK; WEED;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EQUIDAE; HIRSCHFELDIA INCANA; HORDEUM; HORDEUM MARINUM; HYPOCHAERIS GLABRA; LOLIUM; LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM; LYTHRACEAE; LYTHRUM HYSSOPIFOLIA; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO POLYMORPHA; MENTHA PULEGIUM; POA; POA PRATENSIS; RUMEX; RUMEX ACETOSELLA; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM HIRTUM; VULPIA MYUROS;

EID: 55849115267     PISSN: 08858608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3375/0885-8608(2008)28[356:GOIPSA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Boyce, R.L., and P.C. Ellison. 2001. Choosing the best similarity index when performing fuzzy set ordination on binary data. Journal of Vegetation Science 12:711-720.
2. [Cal-IPC] California Invasive Plant Inventory. 2006. California Invasive Plant Inventory. in California Invasive Plant Council, Berkeley. Available online 〈www.cal-ipc.org〉.
3. Campbell, J.E., and D.J. Gibson. 2001. The effect of seeds of exotic species transported via horse dung on vegetation along trail corridors. Plant Ecology 157:23-35.
4. [CDFA] California. Department of Food and Agriculture. 2006. Encycloweedia: California State Noxious Weeds List. California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, Calif.
5. Cole, D.N., and T.E. Hall. 1992. Trends in camp-site condition: Eagle Rock Wilderness, Bob Marshall Wilderness, and Grand Canyon National Park. Research Paper TNT-453:41, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Ogden, Utah.
6. DiTomaso, J.M. 2000. Invasive weeds in rangelands: species, impacts, and management. Weed Science 48:255-265.
7. Gaudet, C.L., and P.A. Keddy. 1988. Predicting competitive ability from plant traits: a comparative approach. Nature 334:242-243.
8. Gower, S.T. 2006. Are horses responsible for introducing non-native plants along trails in the eastern United States? A final report. American Endurance Riders Conference, Auburn, Calif.
9. Harmon, G.W., and F.D. Keim. 1934. The percentage and viability of weed seeds recovered in the feces of farm animals and their longevity when buried in manure. Journal of the American Society of Agronomy 26:762-767.
10. Janzen, D.H. 1981. Enterolobium cyclocarpum seed passage rate and survival in horses, Costa-Rican Pleistocene seed dispersal agents. Ecology 62:593-601.
11. Janzen, D.H. 1984. Dispersal of small seeds by big herbivores: foliage is the fruit. The American Naturalist 123:338-353.
12. Leung, B., D.M. Lodge, D. Finnoff, J.F. Shogren, M.A. Lewis, and G. Lamberti. 2002. An ounce of prevention or a pound of cure: bioeconomic risk analysis of invasive species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 269:2407-2413.
13. Marcus, W.A., G. Milner, and B. Maxwell. 1998. Spotted knapweed distribution in stock camps and trails of the Selway-Bitterroot wilderness. Great Basin Naturalist 58:156-166.
14. Real, R., and J.M. Vargas. 1996. The probabilistic basis of Jaccard's index of similarity. Systematic Biology 45:380-385.
15. Roche, B.F., C.T. Roche, and R.C. Chapman. 1994. Impacts of grassland habitat on yellow starthistle (Centaurea solsitialis L) invasion. Northwest Science 68:86-96.
16. Sakai, A.K., F.W. Allendorf, J.S. Holt, D.M. Lodge, J. Molofsky, K.A. With, S. Baughman, R.J. Cabin, J.E. Cohen, N.C. Ellstrand, D.E. McCauley, P. O'Neil, I.M. Parker, J.N. Thompson, and S.G. Weller. 2001. The population biology of invasive species. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 32:305-332.
17. Sharma, G.P., J.S. Singh, and A.S. Raghubanshi. 2005. Plant invasions: emerging trends and future implications. Current Science 88:726-734.
18. Siegal, M. 1996. UC Davis Book of Horses: a Complete Medical Reference Guide for Horses and Foals. Harper Collins, New York.
19. [USDA, NRCS] U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Services. 2007. The PLANTS database. in National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, La. Available online 〈http://plants.usda. gov〉.
20. van Dyk, E., and S. Neser. 2000. The spread of weeds into sensitive areas by seeds in horse faeces. Journal of the South African Veterinary Association 71:173-174.
21. Weaver, V., and R. Adams. 1996. Horses as vectors in the dispersal of weeds into native vegetation. Pp. 383-387 in R.C.H. Shepherd, ed., Eleventh Australian Weeds Conference Weed Science Society of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
22. Wells, F. 2006. Alien plants on recreational trails in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. M.S., thesis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.