Claim · model-written summary
The magnitude of the landscape-scale decrease was best explained by the number of plots where an alien species was above its critical abundance.
- Taxon
- alien speciese5
- Treatment
- number of plots where an alien species was found above its critical abundancee5
- Outcome
- magnitude of the decrease at the landscape scalee5
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Verbatim
e5“The magnitude of the decrease at the landscape scale was best explained by the number of plots where an alien species was found above its critical abundance”
Title
Maud Bernard‐Verdier; Philip E. Hulme Journal of Ecology 2018. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13124
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Association Eight of 47 alien plant species were associated with a significant decline in native plant richness as their local abundance increased.
- Observation Most significant declines in native richness started at low to intermediate abundance classes.
- Observation Declines in native gamma richness were an order of magnitude greater than declines in native alpha richness, 32.0 vs 2.2 species.
- Mechanism The landscape-scale decline is mostly due to spatial homogenization of native communities.
- Recommendation Management targeting only locations dominated by alien plants might not mitigate impacts effectively.