Mark van Kleunen
Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success
van Kleunen, Mark; Xu, Xinyi; Yang, Qiang; Maurel, Noëlie; Zhang, Zhijie; Dawson, Wayne; Essl, Franz; Kreft, Holger; Pergl, Jan; Pyšek, Petr; Weigelt, Patrick; Moser, Dietmar; Lenzner, Bernd; Fristoe, Trevor S.
Authors
Xinyi Xu
Qiang Yang
Noëlie Maurel
Zhijie Zhang
Dr Wayne Dawson wayne.dawson@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Franz Essl
Holger Kreft
Jan Pergl
Petr Pyšek
Patrick Weigelt
Dietmar Moser
Bernd Lenzner
Trevor S. Fristoe
Abstract
Humans cultivate thousands of economic plants (i.e. plants with economic value) outside their native ranges. To analyze how this contributes to naturalization success, we combine global databases on economic uses and naturalization success of the world’s seed plants. Here we show that naturalization likelihood is 18 times higher for economic than non-economic plants. Naturalization success is highest for plants grown as animal food or for environmental uses (e.g. ornamentals), and increases with number of uses. Taxa from the Northern Hemisphere are disproportionately over-represented among economic plants, and economic plants from Asia have the greatest naturalization success. In regional naturalized floras, the percentage of economic plants exceeds the global percentage and increases towards the equator. Phylogenetic patterns in the naturalized flora partly result from phylogenetic patterns in the plants we cultivate. Our study illustrates that accounting for the intentional introduction of economic plants is key to unravelling drivers of plant naturalization.
Citation
van Kleunen, M., Xu, X., Yang, Q., Maurel, N., Zhang, Z., Dawson, W., …Fristoe, T. S. (2020). Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 3201. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16982-3
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 2, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 24, 2020 |
Publication Date | 2020 |
Deposit Date | Jul 8, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Nature Communications |
Publisher | Nature Research |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 11 |
Issue | 1 |
Article Number | 3201 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16982-3 |
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