Invasion of old world phragmites australis in the new world: Precipitation and temperature patterns combined with human influences redesign the invasive niche

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3406-3422

  Guo, Wen Yong ^a,b   Lambertini, Carla ^a   Li, Xiu Zhen ^b   Meyerson, Laura A ^c   Brix, Hans ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasion; Climate; Common reed; Environmental (ecological) niche models; Haplotype M; Human influence; Mediterranean lineage; Niche shift; Potential distribution

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASS; NICHE; PERENNIAL PLANT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WETLAND;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; UNITED STATES;

PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS;

CHLOROPLAST DNA; RAIN;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL (ECOLOGICAL) NICHE MODELS; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE M; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN INFLUENCE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MEDITERRANEAN LINEAGE; NICHE SHIFT; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; POACEAE; POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES INVASION; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE; COMMON REED; ENVIRONMENTAL (ECOLOGICAL) NICHE MODELS; HAPLOTYPE M; HUMAN INFLUENCE; MEDITERRANEAN LINEAGE; NICHE SHIFT; POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION;

DNA, CHLOROPLAST; ECOSYSTEM; HAPLOTYPES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POACEAE; RAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885433393     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12295     Document Type: Article

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