Plant naturalization

Plant naturalization
From global patterns to regional and local drivers
Mosaic credit: Dan Nickrent
Mark van Kleunen
Ecology, Department of Biology
Thanks
Ecology Lab
Collaborators on work to be presented
Wayne Dawson
Petr Pyšek
Jan Pergl
Marten Winter
Franz Essl
Patrick Weigelt
Holger Kreft
Ewald Weber
Hanno Seebens
Liubov Antonova
Andrey Kupriyanov
Aleksandr Ebel
Wen-sheng Shu
Silvana Masciadri
Quentin Groom
Pieter Pelser
Maria Baptiste
Olga Morozova
Nicol Fuentes
Misako Nishino
Mauricio Velayos
Manop Poopath
Lesley Henderson
Julie Barcelona
John Kartesz
Jan Meerman
Jacob Thomas
Inderjit
Francisco Cabezas
Estrela Figueiredo
Eduardo Chacon
Dietmar Moser
Daniel Nickrent
Cyrille Chatelain
Castaño Nicolás
Juliana Cárdenas-Toro
Dairon Cárdenas
Annette Patzelt
Maria Schulze
Jan Wieringa
Bernd Blasius
Mialy Razanajatovo
Noëlie Maurel
Yanhao Feng
Zhiheng Wang
Lei Ning
Fei-Hai Yu
Ingolf Kühn
Jan Hanspach
Emily Haeuser
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Tim Blackburn
Ellie Dyer
Piero Genovesi
Philip Hulme
Jonathan Jeschke
Shyama Pagad
Margarita Arianoutsou
Sven Bacher
Giuseppe Brundu
César Capinha
Laura Celesti-Grapow
Stefan Dullinger
Heinke Jäger
Marc Kenis
Bernd Lenzner
Alexander Mosena
Wolfgang Rabitsch,
Julissa Rojas-Sandoval
Alain Roques
Silivia Rossinelli
Helen Roy
Riccardo Scalera
Stefan Schindler
Kateřina Štajerová
Barbara Tokarska-Guzik
Globalization
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Exponential increase in number of recorded alien species in the last 500 years.
1500
1775
2000
di Castri 1989 Biological Invasions: a global perspective, Halpern et al. 2008 Science 319:948-952, Seebens et al. unpublished manuscript
Examples of naturalized alien plants
Senecio inaequidens
Solidago canadensis
Impatiens glandulifera
Fallopia japonica
Photo sources: commons.wikimedia.org; wikipedia.org
Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Mimulus guttatus
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Global patterns of naturalized plant species
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and many data contributors
Global flows of naturalized plant species
843 regions → 83% of land surface
van Kleunen et al. 2015 Nature 525:100-103
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Naturalized species accumulation per continent
13,168 naturalized plant species → 4% of global flora
Pacific
Antarctica
van Kleunen et al. 2015 Nature 525:100-103
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Global flows of naturalized plant species
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Only top 50% of flows are shown; Ant. = Antarctic, C = only known from cultivation or novel hybrid
van Kleunen et al. 2015 Nature 525:100-103
Global flows of naturalized plant species
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Recipient continent
Donor continent
Overrepresented
Underrepresented
Number of species
van Kleunen et al. 2015 Nature 525:100-103
The most widely naturalized species
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Sonchus oleraceus (L.) L. – Gemüse Gänsedistel
http://commons.wikimedia.org/
Naturalized in 409 of the 843 GloNAF regions (62,527,772 km2)
GloNAF regions in which species has naturalized
No data
Other GloNAF regions
Permanent ice sheets
Pyšek et al. in preparation
The most widely naturalized species
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The number-of-regions top ten
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5
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No.
GloNAF
regions
Rank
Species
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Sonchus oleraceus (Gemüse-Gänsedistel)
409
2
Ricinus communis (Wunderbaum)
373
3
Oxalis corniculata (Horn-Sauerklee)
318
4
Portulaca oleracea (Portulak)
311
5
Eleusine indica (Indische Fingerhirse)
309
6
Chenopodium album (Weißer Gänsefuß)
298
7
Capsella bursa-pastoris (Hirtentäschel)
296
8
Stellaria media (Gewöhnliche Vogelmiere)
288
9
Bidens pilosa (Behaarter Zweizahn)
280
10
Datura stramonium (Gemeiner Stechapfel)
272
Pyšek et al. in preparation; Images from various internet sources
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Global trade as a driver of plant naturalization
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Global trade as a driver of plant naturalization
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Probability of naturalization
Environmental similarity
Distance
Pij(Naturalization) = Pij(Alien)·Pij(Introduction)·Pij(Establishment)
Species richness of donor country
Bilateral trade
Predicted no. of naturalized plants
0
500
1000
1500
r = 0.78
Observed no. of naturalized plants
2000
Cumulative trade until 20 years ago is a major driver.
Seebens et al. 2015 Global Change Biology 21:4128-4140
Global trade as a driver of plant naturalization
Changes in numbers of naturalized species by the year 2028
Based on current trade
Emerging economies will be the winners.
Seebens et al. 2015 Global Change Biology 21:4128-4140
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Trade Ѵ
Traits ?
Baker’s Law
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Selfing should promote establishment after long-distance dispersal
Native
Native
Native
Native
Alien
Naturalized
Native
Breeding systems and global naturalization
Plant-breeding-system experiments
Eckert et al. 2010 Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25:35-43
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Breeding systems and global naturalization
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Global plant-breeding-system database
Literature search
Breeding system or Mating system or Self-compatib* or Self-fertil* or Autogam*
or Auto-fertil* or Outcross* or Apomixis and Plant
Screening
6,678 titles ► 1,675 abstracts ► 696 articles + 247 additional sources
►1,781 plant species (161 families)
Monocarpy
Self-compatibility/
Autofertility
Razanajatovo et al. unpublished manuscript
Native range
size
Naturalization
success
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TDWG2
regions
843
regions
Breeding systems and global naturalization
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Self-compatibility
Extent of naturalization
Naturalization (yes/no)
Selfcompatibility
0.124
Self-compatibility (and autofertility) contribute to naturalization.
Razanajatovo et al. unpublished manuscript
Native range
size
(No. regions)
0.124
0.15
0.355
Monocarpic
strategy
0.414
0.216
0.167
Naturalizatio
success
(No. regions)
Ornamental plant introductions
Professional plant hunters – heroes of horticulture
EH Wilson (1876-1930)
Lilium regale
Whittle 1997 The Plant Hunters; Ward 2004 The Plant Hunter´s Garden, Ernest Henry Wilson (1876-1930) papers, 1896-1952
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Predicting the next generation of European plant invaders
WhoIsNext
IPCC 2013; van Kleunen, Thuiller, Bossdorf, Dullinger & Essl
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Experimental warming and establishment
Disturbed
Undisturbed
37 ornamental aliens
12 naturalized aliens
14 natives
Haeuser et al. in progress
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Experimental warming and establishment
Undisturbed
Disturbed
20
10
Control
2014
2015
15
5
0
20
15
Heated
Total no. plants present/plot
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10
5
0
Native
Haeuser et al. in progress
Naturalized Ornamental
Native
Naturalized Ornamental
Experimental warming and establishment
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Disturbed
20
15
10
5
0
20
5
0
Some ornamentals have the potential to establish.
Haeuser et al. in progress
2014
2015
Heated
15
10
Undisturbed
Control
Total no. plants present/plot
Ornamentals
Summary
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► First quantitative data for global patterns
► Trade is an important driver
► Traits are important:
● Some ± universally
● Others context dependent (still rarely tested explicitly)
► Explanation → prediction
● Naturalized species of the future – ornamental garden plants may be a
Thanks
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