Mark van Kleunen, Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, Jan Pergl, Marten Winter, Ewald Weber, Holger Kreft, Patrick Weigelt, John Kartesz, Misako Nishino, Liubov A. Antonova, Julie F. Barcelona, Francisco J. Cabezas, Dairon Cardenas, Juliana Cardenas-Toro, Nicolas Castano, Eduardo Chacon, Cyrille Chatelain, Aleksandr L. Ebel, Estrela Figueiredo, Nicol Fuentes, Quentin J. Groom, Lesley Henderson, Inderjit, Andrey Kupriyanov, Silvana Masciadri, Jan Meerman, Olga Morozova, Dietmar Moser, Daniel L. Nickrent, Annette Patzelt, Pieter B. Pelser, Maria P. Baptiste, Manop Poopath, Maria Schulze, Hanno Seebens, Wen-sheng Shu, Jacob Thomas, Mauricio Velayos, Jan J. Wieringa, Petr Pysek
- All around the globe, humans have greatly altered the abiotic and biotic environment with ever-increasing speed. One defining feature of the Anthropocene epoch(1,2) is the erosion of biogeographical barriers by human-mediated dispersal of species into new regions, where they can naturalize and cause ecological, economic and social damage(3). So far, no comprehensive analysis of the global accumulation and exchange of alien plant species between continents has been performed, primarily because of a lack of data. Here we bridge this knowledge gap by using a unique global database on the occurrences of naturalized alien plant species in 481 mainland and 362 island regions. In total, 13,168 plant species, corresponding to 3.9% of the extant global vascular flora, or approximately the size of the native European flora, have become naturalized somewhere on the globe as a result of human activity. North America has accumulated the largest number of naturalized species, whereas the Pacific Islands show the fastest increase in species numbersAll around the globe, humans have greatly altered the abiotic and biotic environment with ever-increasing speed. One defining feature of the Anthropocene epoch(1,2) is the erosion of biogeographical barriers by human-mediated dispersal of species into new regions, where they can naturalize and cause ecological, economic and social damage(3). So far, no comprehensive analysis of the global accumulation and exchange of alien plant species between continents has been performed, primarily because of a lack of data. Here we bridge this knowledge gap by using a unique global database on the occurrences of naturalized alien plant species in 481 mainland and 362 island regions. In total, 13,168 plant species, corresponding to 3.9% of the extant global vascular flora, or approximately the size of the native European flora, have become naturalized somewhere on the globe as a result of human activity. North America has accumulated the largest number of naturalized species, whereas the Pacific Islands show the fastest increase in species numbers with respect to their land area. Continents in the Northern Hemisphere have been the major donors of naturalized alien species to all other continents. Our results quantify for the first time the extent of plant naturalizations worldwide, and illustrate the urgent need for globally integrated efforts to control, manage and understand the spread of alien species.…
MetadatenAuthor details: | Mark van KleunenORCiDGND, Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, Jan Pergl, Marten Winter, Ewald WeberORCiDGND, Holger Kreft, Patrick Weigelt, John Kartesz, Misako Nishino, Liubov A. Antonova, Julie F. Barcelona, Francisco J. Cabezas, Dairon Cardenas, Juliana Cardenas-Toro, Nicolas Castano, Eduardo Chacon, Cyrille Chatelain, Aleksandr L. Ebel, Estrela Figueiredo, Nicol Fuentes, Quentin J. Groom, Lesley Henderson, Inderjit, Andrey Kupriyanov, Silvana Masciadri, Jan Meerman, Olga Morozova, Dietmar Moser, Daniel L. Nickrent, Annette PatzeltORCiD, Pieter B. Pelser, Maria P. Baptiste, Manop Poopath, Maria Schulze, Hanno Seebens, Wen-sheng Shu, Jacob Thomas, Mauricio Velayos, Jan J. Wieringa, Petr Pysek |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14910 |
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ISSN: | 0028-0836 |
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ISSN: | 1476-4687 |
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Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26287466 |
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Title of parent work (English): | Nature : the international weekly journal of science |
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Publisher: | Nature Publ. Group |
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Place of publishing: | London |
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Publication type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
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Year of first publication: | 2015 |
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Publication year: | 2015 |
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Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
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Volume: | 525 |
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Issue: | 7567 |
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Number of pages: | 7 |
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First page: | 100 |
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Last Page: | + |
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Funding institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [KL 1866/9-1]; Austrian Climate and
Energy Fund (SpecAdapt) [KR11AC0K00355]; Centre of Excellence PLADIAS
(Czech Science Foundation) [14-36079G]; Czech Academy of Sciences [RVO
67985939]; Praemium Academiae award from The Czech Academy of Sciences;
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ); German Centre for
Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig [DFG FZT
118]; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Free Floater Program in the
Excellence Initiative at the University of Gottingen; BEFmate project
from the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony; German
VW-Foundation; project Flora de Guinea Ecuatorial [CGL2012-32934];
Project ICM [05-002]; Project Fondecyt Postdoc [3120125]; Research
Center of the College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia; [PFB-23] |
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Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
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Peer review: | Referiert |
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