Invasion in space and time: non-native species richness and relative abundance respond to interannual variation in productivity and diversity

  1. Elsa E. Cleland1,*,
  2. Melinda D. Smith2,
  3. Sandy J. Andelman2,
  4. Christy Bowles2,
  5. Karen M. Carney3,
  6. M. Claire Horner-Devine1,
  7. John M. Drake2,
  8. Sarah M. Emery4,
  9. Joel M. Gramling5,
  10. David B. Vandermast5

Article first published online: 6 SEP 2004

DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00655.x

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Ecology Letters

Ecology Letters

Volume 7, Issue 10, pages 947–957, October 2004

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Cleland, E. E., Smith, M. D., Andelman, S. J., Bowles, C., Carney, K. M., Claire Horner-Devine, M., Drake, J. M., Emery, S. M., Gramling, J. M. and Vandermast, D. B. (2004), Invasion in space and time: non-native species richness and relative abundance respond to interannual variation in productivity and diversity. Ecology Letters, 7: 947–957. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00655.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

  2. 2

    National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

  3. 3

    Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA

  4. 4

    W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, USA

  5. 5

    Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

*E-mail: ecleland@globalecology.stanford.edu

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 6 SEP 2004
  2. Article first published online: 6 SEP 2004
  3. Editor, Marcel Rejmanek Manuscript received 4 March 2004 First decision made 13 April 2004 Second decision made 25 June 2004 Manuscript accepted 13 July 2004

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Keywords:

  • Diversity;
  • interannual variability;
  • invasion;
  • logistic regression;
  • productivity;
  • relative abundance;
  • repeated measures;
  • resources;
  • species richness;
  • synthesis

Abstract

Ecologists have long sought to understand the relationships among species diversity, community productivity and invasion by non-native species. Here, four long-term observational datasets were analyzed using repeated measures statistics to determine how plant species richness and community resource capture (i.e. productivity) influenced invasion. Multiple factors influenced the results, including the metric used to quantify invasion, interannual variation and spatial scale. Native richness was positively correlated with non-native richness, but was usually negatively correlated with non-native abundance, and these patterns were stronger at the larger spatial scale. Logistic regressions indicated that the probability of invasion was reduced both within and following years with high productivity, except at the desert grassland site where high productivity was associated with increased invasion. Our analysis suggests that while non-natives were most likely to establish in species rich communities, their success was diminished by high resource capture by the resident community.

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