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A global synthesis of naturalised and invasive plants in aquatic habitats
NeoBiota, Vol.102(2), pp.473-494
2025
Abstract
Global databases have contributed to our understanding of alien, naturalised and invasive plant species distributions. Still, the role of species invasions in habitats, specifically in aquatic habitats, remains under-explored at the global scale. Accordingly, a comprehensive global synthesis of the status of plant invasions in aquatic habitats has been missing. Here, we focus on macroecological patterns of naturalised non-invasive and invasive plants in aquatic habitats using the recently built SynHab database. Amongst all the plant records compiled in SynHab, 592 are assigned to aquatic habitats, of which 183 are unique plant taxa (further termed 'species') belonging to 49 families. Of the total number of records, 462 refer to taxa with naturalised non-invasive occurrences and 130 to invasive occurrences. The species pool analysed here refers to 78 regions distributed across all botanical continents as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. The number of naturalised non-invasive aquatic species is similar across different continents and biomes, but Tropical Asia had more and the Mediterranean zonobiome had fewer invasive species than expected. Tropical Asia, Temperate Asia and Africa have the highest proportions of naturalised species that have become invasive, while across continents, invasive proportions were highest for tropical and subtropical zonobiomes. New Zealand, Italy and California contained disproportionately more naturalised species than expected, given the area covered by aquatic habitat in those regions, whereas South Sudan, Papua New Guinea and Kyrgyzstan had disproportionately fewer species. In pairwise dissimilarity comparisons, all continents had distinct species compositions (from 0.73 to 0.92 of the Jaccard dissimilarity index) and so did zonobiomes (0.69 to 1.00). The high proportion of invasive species in Tropical Asia in comparison with terrestrial invasions in this region, indicates a greater susceptibility of warmer regions to aquatic plant invasions. This may be exacerbated by further naturalisations in the future, as data from temperate regions suggest a larger pool of available species.
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- Title
- A global synthesis of naturalised and invasive plants in aquatic habitats
- Authors
- Alessandra Kortz - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of BotanyMartin Hejda - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of BotanyJan Cuda - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of BotanyZarah Pattison - University of StirlingJosef Bruna - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of BotanyAna Novoa - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of BotanyJan Pergl - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of BotanyPavel Pipek - Charles UniversityKaterina Stajerova - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of BotanyPaulina Anastasiu - University of BucharestMichael Ansong - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyMargarita Arianoutsou - National and Kapodistrian University of AthensJulie F. Barcelona - University of CanterburySuneeta Bhatta - Charles UniversityFarzaneh Bordbar - Université Libre de BruxellesIsrael Borokini - Montana State UniversityLaura Celesti-Grapow - Sapienza University of RomeEduardo Chacon-Madrigal - Universidad NacionalWayne Dawson - University of LiverpoolDorjee - Ministry of Agriculture and ForestsFranz Essl - Univ Vienna, Dept Bot & Biodivers Res, Div BioInvas Global Change & Macroecol, Vienna, AustriaLilian Ferrufino-Acosta - Univ Nacl Autonoma Honduras, Escuela Biol, Fac Ciencias, Herbario TEFH, Tegucigalpa, HondurasEstrela Figueiredo - Nelson Mandela UniversityRodolfo Flores - Universidad de PanamáGuillaume Fried - Département Santé des Plantes et EnvironnementNicol Fuentes - University of ConcepciónPablo Galan - La Liber Tad, San Salvador, El SalvadorChristian Gilli - University of ViennaMichael Glaser - University of ViennaJose Ramon Grande Allende - Universidad de GranadaZigmantas Gudzinskas - Nature Research CentreRachael Holmes - University of LeicesterPhilip E. Hulme - Lincoln UniversityInderjit - University of DelhiEun Su Kang - Korea National ArboretumHolger Kreft - University of GöttingenDan W. Krix - New South Wales Rural Fire Serv, Sydney, AustraliaIngolf Kuhn - UFZ Helmholtz Ctr Environm Res, Dept Community Ecol, Halle, GermanyOmar Lopez - Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta TecnologíaAnalu Macvean - York College of PennsylvaniaTrobjon Makhkamov - National University of UzbekistanElizabete Marchante - University of CoimbraHelia Marchante - Polytechnic Institute of CoimbraAlfred Maroyi - University of Fort HareRachid Meddour - Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-OuzouPierre Meerts - Meise Botanic GardenSharif A. Mukul - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research CentreBrad R. Murray - University of Technology SydneyMegan L. Murray - University of Technology SydneyDaniel L. Nickrent - Cornell UniversityPrince E. Norman - Sierra Leone Agricultural Research InstituteAli Omer - University of ViennaAnnette Patzelt - Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied SciencesPieter B. Pelser - University of CanterburyJoan Pino - Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry ApplicationsMarc Riera - Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry ApplicationsDagoberto Rodriguez Delcid - Asociac Jardin Bot laguna, Herbario LAGU, La Liber Tad, El SalvadorJulissa Rojas-Sandoval - University of ConnecticutRoser Rotches-Ribalta - Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry ApplicationsJose Yader Sageth Ruiz-Cruz - University of El SalvadorStepan SenatorAlexander N. Sennikov - University of HelsinkiBharat Babu Shrestha - Tribhuvan UniversityGideon F. Smith - Nelson Mandela UniversitySima Sohrabi - Rice Research InstituteBarbara Tokarska-Guzik - University of Silesia in KatowiceMark van Kleunen - Taizhou UniversityMontserrat Vila - Universidad de SevillaViktoria Wagner - University of AlbertaPatrick Weigelt - University of GöttingenMarten Winter - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity ResearchAyse Yazlik - Düzce ÜniversitesiElena ZykovaPetr Pysek - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany
- Publication details
- NeoBiota, Vol.102(2), pp.473-494
- Publisher
- Pensoft Publishers
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.3897/neobiota.102.151156
- ISSN
- 1314-2488; 1619-0033
- Copyright note
- © Alessandra Kortz et al. This is an open access article distributed under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution 4.0 International – CC BY 4.0).
- Data Availability
- All of the data that support the findings of this study are available in the main text or Supplementary Information.
- Grant note
- Authors from the Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, were supported by EXPRO grant no. 19-28807X (Czech Science Foundation) and long-term research development project RVO 67985939 (Czech Academy of Sciences). AN was supported by the MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the FSE+ (grant no. RYC2022-037905-I). FE and BL appreciate funding from Austrian Science Fund FWF (Global Plant Invasions, grant no. I 5825-B). MG appreciates funding by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (MOTIVATE, pr.no. I 6846-B). NF acknowledges funding from Proyecto Nueva Flora de Chile (grant no. 2023000111HER).
- Organisation Unit
- Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991185245002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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