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Urban alien plants in temperate oceanic regions of Europe originate from warmer native ranges
Géron, Charly; Lembrechts, Jonas J.; Borgelt, Jan et al.
2021In Biological Invasions
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Keywords :
Alien plant species; Global changes; Biological invasions; Urbanization; Native climate
Abstract :
[en] When colonizing new areas, alien plantspecies success can depend strongly on local environ-mental conditions. Microclimatic barriers might be thereason why some alien plant species thrive in urban areas, while others prefer rural environments. We tested the hypothesis that the climate in the nativerange is a good predictor of the urbanity of alienspecies in the invaded range. The relationship betweenclimate in the native range and the percentage ofartificiallysealedsurfaces(urbanity)attheoccurrences of 24 emerging alien plant species, inEuropean areas with a temperate climate (termedoceanic Europe) was evaluated. We found that alienspecies growing in more urban environments origi-nated from warmer or drier native ranges than found inoceanic Europe. These results have strong conserva-tion implications as climate-warming will likely liftclimatic barriers that currently constrain numerous alien plant species to cities, boosting the role of citiesas points of entry for invasive plants
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Géron, Charly ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Biodiversité et Paysage
Lembrechts, Jonas J.
Borgelt, Jan
Lenoir, Jonathan
Hamdi Rafiq
Mahy, Grégory ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Biodiversité et Paysage
Nijs, Ivan
Monty, Arnaud ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Biodiversité et Paysage
Language :
English
Title :
Urban alien plants in temperate oceanic regions of Europe originate from warmer native ranges
Publication date :
2021
Journal title :
Biological Invasions
ISSN :
1387-3547
eISSN :
1573-1464
Publisher :
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
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