Patterns of native and exotic species richness in the urban flora of Brussels: Rejecting the 'rich get richer' model

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 233-240

  Ricotta, Carlo ^a   Godefroid, Sandrine ^b   Rocchini, Duccio ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b BOTANIC GARDEN MEISE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alien invasions; Brussels; Quantile regression; Randomization methods; Scaling effects; Species richness

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; CORRELATION; FLORA; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; BRUSSELS; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 72149110047     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9445-0     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Brichau I, Ameeuw G, Gryseels M, Paelinckx D (2000) Biologische Waarderingskaart, versie 2. Kaartbladen 31-39. Mededelingen van het Instituut voor Natuurbehoud 15. IN/BIM, Brussels.
2. Brown RL, Peet RK (2003) Diversity and invasibility of southern Appalachian plant communities. Ecology 84: 32-39. doi: 10. 1890/0012-9658(2003)084[0032: DAIOSA]2. 0. CO; 2.
3. Bruno JF, Stachowicz JJ, Bertness MD (2003) Inclusion of facilitation into ecological theory. Trends Ecol Evol 18: 119-125. doi: 10. 1016/S0169-5347(02)00045-9.
4. Cade BS, Noon BR (2003) A gentle introduction to quantile regression for ecologists. Front Ecol Environ 1: 412-420.
5. Cade BS, Noon BR, Flather CH (2005) Quantile regression reveals hidden bias and uncertainty in habitat models. Ecology 86: 786-800. doi: 10. 1890/04-0785.
6. Callaway RM, Maron JL (2006) What have exotic plant invasions taught us over the past 20 years? Trends Ecol Evol 21: 369-374. doi: 10. 1016/j. tree. 2006. 04. 008.
7. Celesti-Grapow L, Pyšek P, Jarošík V, Blasi C (2006) Determinants of native and alien species richness in the urban flora of Rome. Divers Distrib 12: 490-501. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1366-9516. 2006. 00282. x.
8. Chocholoušková Z, Pyšek P (2003) Changes in composition and structure of urban flora over 120 years: a case study of the city of Plzen. Flora 198: 366-376.
9. Deutschewitz K, Lausch A, Kühn I, Klotz S (2003) Native and alien plant species richness in relation to spatial heterogeneity on a regional scale in Germany. Glob Ecol Biogeogr 12: 299-311. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1466-822X. 2003. 00025. x.
10. Elton CS (1958) The ecology of invasions by animals and plants. Methuen, London.
11. Fridley JD, Brown RL, Bruno JF (2004) Null models of exotic invasion and scale-dependent patterns of native and exotic species richness. Ecology 85: 3215-3222. doi: 10. 1890/03-0676.
12. Fridley JD, Stachowicz JJ, Naeem S, Sax DF, Seabloom EW, Smith MD, Stohlgren TJ, Tilman D, Von Holle B (2007) The invasion paradox: reconciling pattern and process in species invasions. Ecology 88: 3-17. doi: 10. 1890/0012-9658(2007)88[3: TIPRPA]2. 0. CO; 2.
13. Gilbert OL (1989) The ecology of urban habitats. Chapman and Hall, London.
14. Godefroid S (1996) Mise en évidence de la richesse floristique d'une grande ville: le cas de Bruxelles-Capitale. Dumortiera 63: 19-30.
15. Godefroid S (2001) Analysis of the Brussels flora as indicator for changing environmental quality. Landsc Urban Plan 52: 203-224. doi: 10. 1016/S0169-2046(00)00117-1.
16. Godefroid S, Koedam N (2007) Urban plants species patterns are highly driven by density and function of built-up areas. Landscape Ecol 22: 1227-1239. doi: 10. 1007/s10980-007-9102-x.
17. Gotelli NJ, Graves GR (1996) Null models in ecology. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.
18. Hector A, Dobson K, Minns A, Bazeley-White E, Lawton JH (2001) Community diversity and invasion resistance: an experimental test in a grassland ecosystem and a review of comparable studies. Ecol Res 16: 819-831. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1440-1703. 2001. 00443. x.
19. IBGE-BIM (1995) Report on the state of the environment in the Brussels Capital Region (in French and Dutch). Les Cahiers de l'IBGE Nr. 9, IBGE-BIM, Brussels.
20. Kalkhan MA, Stohlgren TJ (2000) Using multi-scale sampling and spatial cross-correlation to investigate patterns of plant species richness. Environ Monit Assess 64: 591-605. doi: 10. 1023/A: 1006329707198.
21. Kennedy TA, Naeem S, Howe KM, Knops JMH, Tilman D, Reich P (2002) Biodiversity as a barrier to ecological invasion. Nature 417: 636-638. doi: 10. 1038/nature00776.
22. Koenker R (2007) Quantreg: quantile regression. R package version 4. 10. http://www. r-project. org.
23. Koenker R, Bassett G Jr (1978) Regression quantiles. Econometrica 46: 33-50. doi: 10. 2307/1913643.
24. Koenker R, Hallock K (2001) Quantile regression. J Econ Perspect 15: 143-156.
25. Kühn I, Brandl R, Klotz S (2004) The flora of German cities is naturally species rich. Evol Ecol Res 6: 749-764.
26. Levine JM (2000) Species diversity and biological invasions: relating local processes to community pattern. Science 288: 761-763. doi: 10. 1126/science. 288. 5467. 852.
27. Levine JM, D'Antonio CM (1999) Elton revisited: a review of evidence linking diversity and invasibility. Oikos 87: 15-26. doi: 10. 2307/3546992.
28. Lodge DM (1993) Biological invasions: lessons for ecology. Trends Ecol Evol 8: 133-137. doi: 10. 1016/0169-5347(93)90025-K.
29. McGeoch MA, Gaston KJ (2002) Occupancy frequency distributions: patterns, artefacts and mechanisms. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 77: 311-331. doi: 10. 1017/S1464793101005887.
30. Pyšek P (1998) Alien and native species in central European urban floras: a quantitative comparison. J Biogeogr 25: 155-163. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1365-2699. 1998. 251177. x.
31. Richardson DM, Pyšek P, Rejmánek M, Barbour MG, Panetta FD, West CJ (2000) Naturalization and invasion of alien plants: concepts and definitions. Divers Distrib 6: 93-107. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1472-4642. 2000. 00083. x.
32. Sax DF (2002) Native and naturalized plant diversity are positively correlated in scrub communities of California and Chile. Divers Distrib 8: 193-210. doi: 10. 1046/j. 1472-4642. 2002. 00147. x.
33. Shea K, Chesson P (2002) Community ecology theory as a framework for biological invasions. Trends Ecol Evol 17: 170-176. doi: 10. 1016/S0169-5347(02)02495-3.
34. Stohlgren TJ, Binkley D, Chong GW, Kalkhan MA, Schell LD, Bull KA, Otsuki Y, Newman G, Bashkin M, Son Y (1999) Exotic plant species invade hot spots of native plant diversity. Ecol Monogr 69: 25-46.
35. Stohlgren TJ, Chong GW, Schell LD, Rimar KA, Otsuki Y, Lee M, Kalkhan MA, Villa CA (2002) Assessing vulnerability to invasion by nonnative plant species at multiple spatial scales. Environ Manage 29: 566-577. doi: 10. 1007/s00267-001-0006-2.
36. Stohlgren TJ, Barnett DT, Kartesz JT (2003) The rich get richer: patterns of plant invasions in the United States. Front Ecol Environ 1: 11-14.
37. Sukopp H, Werner P (1983) Urban environments and vegetation. In: Holzner W, Werger MJA, Ikusima I (eds) Man's impact on vegetation. Dr. W. Junk Academic Publisher, The Hague, pp 247-260.
38. Tilman D (1997) Community invasibility, recruitment limitation, and grassland biodiversity. Ecology 78: 81-92.