Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success

  • Mark van Kleunen,
  • Xinyi Xu,
  • Qiang Yang,
  • Noëlie Maurel,
  • Zhijie Zhang,
  • Wayne Dawson,
  • Franz Essl,
  • Holger Kreft,
  • Jan Pergl,
  • Petr Pyšek,
  • Patrick Weigelt,
  • Dietmar Moser,
  • Bernd Lenzner,
  • Trevor S. Fristoe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16982-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Understanding why certain alien species become naturalized can shed light on biological invasion patterns. In this global analysis on thousands of taxa, van Kleunen and colleagues show that plant species of economic use are more likely to become naturalized, and that this underlies geographic patterns and phylogenetic signals in naturalization