Facilitation and Competition among Invasive Plants: A Field Experiment with Alligatorweed and Water Hyacinth

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Wundrow, Emily J ^a   Carrillo, Juli ^a   Gabler, Christopher A ^a   Horn, Katherine C ^a   Siemann, Evan ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATORWEED; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC SPECIES; AQUATIC VEGETATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; EXOTIC SPECIES; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LETTUCE; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PATCH DYNAMICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT GROWTH; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES INVASION; VEGETATION; WATERSHED; WEED;

ECOSYSTEM; EICHHORNIA; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT WEEDS; PLANTS; TEXAS;

ALTERNANTHERA PHILOXEROIDES; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; HYACINTHUS;

EID: 84868094454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048444     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Bertness MD, Callaway R, (1994) Positive interactions in communities. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 9: 191-193.
2. Bertness MD, Leonard GH, (1997) The role of positive interactions in communities: Lessons from intertidal habitats. Ecology 78: 1976-1989.
3. Stachowicz JJ, (2001) Mutualism, facilitation, and the structure of ecological communities. Bioscience 51: 235-246.
4. Bruno JF, Stachowicz JJ, Bertness MD, (2003) Inclusion of facilitation into ecological theory. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18: 119-125.
5. Bulleri F, Bruno JF, Benedetti-Cecchi L, (2008) Beyond competition: Incorporating positive interactions between species to predict ecosystem invasibility. Plos Biology 6: 1136-1140.
6. LeBrun EG, Plowes RM, Gilbert LE, (2012) Imported fire ants near the edge of their range: disturbance and moisture determine prevalence and impact of an invasive social insect. Journal of Animal Ecology 81: 884-895.
7. Schultz R, Dibble E, (2012) Effects of invasive macrophytes on freshwater fish and macroinvertebrate communities: the role of invasive plant traits. Hydrobiologia 684: 1-14.
8. Richardson DM, Allsopp N, D'Antonio CM, Milton SJ, Rejmanek M, (2000) Plant invasions- the role of mutualisms. Biological Reviews 75: 65-93.
9. Lenz TI, Facelli JM, (2003) Shade facilitates an invasive stem succulent in a chenopod shrubland in South Australia. Austral Ecology 28: 480-490.
10. Ruesink JL, (2007) Biotic resistance and facilitation of a non-native oyster on rocky shores. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 331: 1-9.
11. King RB, Ray JM, Stanford KM, (2006) Gorging on gobies: beneficial effects of alien prey on a threatened vertebrate. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84: 108-115.
12. Ricciardi A, (2001) Facilitative interactions among aquatic invaders: is an "invasional meltdown" occurring in the Great Lakes? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58: 2513-2525.
13. Relva MA, Nunez MA, Simberloff D, (2010) Introduced deer reduce native plant cover and facilitate invasion of non-native tree species: evidence for invasional meltdown. Biological Invasions 12: 303-311.
14. Montgomery WI, Lundy MG, Reid N, (2012) 'Invasional meltdown': evidence for unexpected consequences and cumulative impacts of multispecies invasions. Biological Invasions 14: 1111-1125.
15. Lynch M, (1979) Predation, competition, and zooplankton community structure- experimental-study. Limnology and Oceanography 24: 253-272.
16. Goldberg DE, Barton AM, (1992) Patterns and consequences of interspecific competition in natural communities- a review of field experiments with plants. American Naturalist 139: 771-801.
17. Hixon MA, Beets JP, (1993) Predation, prey refuges, and the structure of coral-reef fish assemblages. Ecological Monographs 63: 77-101.
18. Tilman D, (1999) The ecological consequences of changes in biodiversity: A search for general principles. Ecology 80: 1455-1474.
19. Nunez MA, Relva MA, Simberloff D, (2008) Enemy release or invasional meltdown? Deer preference for exotic and native trees on Isla Victoria, Argentina. Austral Ecology 33: 317-323.
20. Simberloff D, Von Holle B, (1999) Positive interactions of nonindigenous species: invasional meltdown? Biological Invasions 1: 21-32.
21. Mack RN, Simberloff D, Lonsdale WM, Evans H, Clout M, et al. (2000) Biotic invasions: Causes, epidemiology, global consequences, and control. Ecological Applications 10: 689-710.
22. Callaway RM, (1995) Positive interactions among plants. Botanical Review 61: 306-349.
23. Adams MJ, Pearl CA, Bury RB, (2003) Indirect facilitation of an anuran invasion by non-native fishes. Ecology Letters 6: 343-351.
24. Grosholz ED, (2005) Recent biological invasion may hasten invasional meltdown by accelerating historical introductions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102: 1088-1091.
25. Crain CM, Silliman BR, Bertness SL, Bertness MD, (2004) Physical and biotic drivers of plant distribution across estuarine salinity gradients. Ecology 85: 2539-2549.
26. Drake JM, Lodge DM, (2004) Global hot spots of biological invasions: evaluating options for ballast-water management. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 271: 575-580.
27. Simberloff D, (2006) Invasional meltdown 6 years later: important phenomenon, unfortunate metaphor, or both? Ecology Letters 9: 912-919.
28. O'Dowd DJ, Green PT, Lake PS, (2003) Invasional 'meltdown' on an oceanic island. Ecology Letters 6: 812-817.
29. Belote RT, Weltzin JF, (2006) Interactions between two co-dominant, invasive plants in the understory of a temperate deciduous forest. Biological Invasions 8: 1629-1641.
30. Griffen BD, Guy T, Buck JC, (2008) Inhibition between invasives: a newly introduced predator moderates the impacts of a previously established invasive predator. Journal of Animal Ecology 77: 32-40.
31. Mitchell CE, Agrawal AA, Bever JD, Gilbert GS, Hufbauer RA, et al. (2006) Biotic interactions and plant invasions. Ecology Letters 9: 726-740.
32. Tecco PA, Gurvich DE, Diaz S, Perez-Harguindeguy NP, Cabido M, (2006) Positive interaction between invasive plants: The influence of Pyracantha angustifolia on the recruitment of native and exotic woody species. Austral Ecology 31: 293-300.
33. Buchingham GR (2002) Alligator weed. In: Driesche FV, Blossey B, Hoodle M, Lyon S, Reardon R, editors. Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the Eastern United States: USDA Forest Service Publication 5-15.
34. Center TD, Hill MP, Cordo H, Julien MH (2002) Water hyacinth. In: Driesche FV, Blossey B, Hoodle M, Lyon S, Reardon R, editors. Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the Eastern United States: USDA Forest Service Publication 5-15.
35. Dray FJ, Center TD (2002) Water lettuce. In: Driesche FV, Blossey B, Hoodle M, Lyon S, Reardon R, editors. Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the Eastern United States: USDA Forest Service Publication 5-15.
36. Geng YP, Pan XY, Xu CY, Zhang WJ, Li B, et al. (2007) Plasticity and ontogenetic drift of biomass allocation in response to above- and below-ground resource availabilities in perennial herbs: a case study of Alternanthera philoxeroides. Ecological Research 22: 255-260.
37. Boschilia SM, Oliveira EF, Thomaz SM, (2008) Do aquatic macrophytes co-occur randomly? An analysis of null models in a tropical floodplain. Oecologia 156: 203-214.
38. Sokal RR, Rohlf FJ (1994) Biometry: the Principles and Practices of Statistics in Biological Research. New York: WH Freeman.
39. Connell JH, Slatyer RO, (1977) Mechanisms of succession in natural communities and their role in community stability and organization. American Naturalist 111: 1119-1144.
40. Kolar CS, Lodge DM, (2002) Ecological predictions and risk assessment for alien fishes in North America. Science 298: 1233-1236.
41. Dietz H, Edwards PJ, (2006) Recognition that causal processes change during plant invasion helps explain conflicts in evidence. Ecology 87: 1359-1367.
42. Kim Y, Kim WJ, (2000) Roles of water hyacinths and their roots for reducing algal concentration in the effluent from waste stabilization ponds. Water Research 34: 3285-3294.
43. Sculthorpe CD (1967) The Biology of Aquatic Vascular Plants. New York: St. Martin's.
44. Scheffer M, Szabo S, Gragnani A, van Nes EH, Rinaldi S, et al. (2003) Floating plant dominance as a stable state. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100: 4040-4045.
45. Schroder A, Persson L, De Roos AM, (2005) Direct experimental evidence for alternative stable states: a review. Oikos 110: 3-19.
46. Bicudo DD, Fonseca BM, Bini LM, Crossetti LO, Bicudo CED, et al. (2007) Undesirable side-effects of water hyacinth control in a shallow tropical reservoir. Freshwater Biology 52: 1120-1133.
47. Travis JMJ, Park KJ, (2004) Spatial structure and the control of invasive alien species. Animal Conservation 7: 321-330.
48. Harding KC, McNamara JM, Holt RD (2006) Understanding invasions in patchy habitats through metapopulation theory. In: Cadotte M, McMahon SM, Fukami T, editors. Conceptual Ecology and Invasion Biology: Reciprocal Approaches to Nature. Dordrecht: Springer. 371-403.
49. Callaway RM, Walker LR, (1997) Competition and facilitation: A synthetic approach to interactions in plant communities. Ecology 78: 1958-1965.
50. Julien MH (2000) Biological and integrated control of water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes. In: Julien MH, Hill MP, Center TD, Ding J, editors. Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the Global Working Group for the Biological and Integrated Control of Water Hyacinth, Beijing, China.