Why Are Invasive Plants Successful?

Plant invasions, a byproduct of globalization, are increasing worldwide. Because of their ecological and economic impacts, considerable efforts have been made to understand and predict the success of non-native plants. Numerous frameworks, hypotheses, and theories have been advanced to conceptualize the interactions of multiple drivers and context dependence of invasion success with the aim of achieving robust explanations with predictive power. We review these efforts from a community-level perspective rather than a biogeographical one, focusing on terrestrial systems, and explore the roles of intrinsic plant properties in determining species invasiveness, as well as the effects of biotic and abiotic…

• GA
  Grantová Agentura České Republiky

  Awards: 19-20405S, 19-28807X, 67985939, RVO 67985939
• AV
  Akademie Věd České Republiky

  Awards: RVO 67985939, 67985939, project RVO 67985939