Phylogenetic structure of alien plant species pools from European donor habitats

Abstract
Aim: Many plant species native to Europe have naturalized worldwide. We tested whether the phylogenetic structure of the species pools of European habitats is related to the proportion of species from each habitat that has naturalized outside Europe (habitat’s donor role) and whether the donated species are more phylogenetically related to each other than expected by chance. Location: Europe (native range), the rest of the world (invaded range). Time period: Last c. 100 years. Major taxa studied: Angiospermae. Methods: We selected 33 habitats in Europe and analysed their species pools, including 9,636 plant species, of which 2,293 have naturalized outside Europe. We assessed the phylogenetic structure of each habitat as the difference between the observed and expected mean pairwise phylogenetic distance (MPD) for (a) the whole species pool and (b) subgroups of species that have naturalized outside Europe and those that have not. We used generalized linear models to test for the effects of the phylogenetic structure and the level of human influence on the habitat’s donor role.
Description
CITATION: Kalusová, et al.(2021). Phylogenetic structure of alien plant species pools from European donor habitats. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30, 2354– 2367. doi.10.1111/geb.13387
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Keywords
European donor habitats, Native plants -- Habitat -- Conservation -- Europe, Native range, Plants -- Phylogeny, Plant invasions -- Europe, Species pools -- Europe, Vegetation types
Citation
Kalusová, et al.(2021). Phylogenetic structure of alien plant species pools from European donor habitats. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30, 2354– 2367. doi.10.1111/geb.13387