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Hiking trails as conduits for the spread of non-native species in mountain areas / Rebecca Liedtke in Biological invasions, 22 (2020) 

Public Citation [article]  inBiological invasions > 22 (2020) . - 1121-1134 Titre : Hiking trails as conduits for the spread of non-native species in mountain areas Type de document : Imprimé Auteurs : Rebecca Liedtke ; Agustina Barros ; Franz Essl (1973-) ; Jonas J. Lembrechts ; Ronja E.M. Wedegärtner ; Aníbal Pauchard ; Stefan Dullinger Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : 1121-1134 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [CBNPMP-Thématique] Enjeux de conservation des lacs d'altitude [CBNPMP-Thématique] Sports et activités de pleine nature Résumé : Roadsides are major pathways of plant invasions in mountain regions. However, the increasing importance of tourism may also turn hiking trails into conduits of non-native plant spread to remote mountain landscapes. Here, we evaluated the importance of such trails for plant invasion in five protected mountain areas of southern central Chile. We therefore sampled native and non-native species along 17 trails and in the adjacent undisturbed vegetation. We analyzed whether the number and cover of non-native species in local plant assemblages is related to distance to trail and a number of additional variables that characterize the abiotic and biotic environment as well as the usage of the trail. We found that non-native species at higher elevations are a subset of the lowland source pool and that their number and cover decreases with increasing elevation and with distance to trails, although this latter variable only explained 4–8% of the variation in the data. In addition, non-native richness and cover were positively correlated with signs of livestock presence but negatively with the presence of intact forest vegetation. These results suggest that, at least in the region studied, hiking trails have indeed fostered non-native species spread to higher elevations, although less efficiently than roadsides. As a corollary, appropriate planning and management of trails could become increasingly important to control plant invasions into mountains in a world which is warming and where visitation and recreational use of mountainous areas is expected to increase. Lien pérenne : DOI : 10.1007/s10530-019-02165-9 Permalink : https://biblio.cbnpmp.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=150797 Liedtke, Rebecca, Barros, Agustina, Essl, Franz (1973-), Lembrechts, Jonas J., Wedegärtner, Ronja E.M., Pauchard, Aníbal, Dullinger, Stefan 2020 Hiking trails as conduits for the spread of non-native species in mountain areas. Biological invasions, 22: 1121-1134.

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Rapid upwards spread of non-native plants in mountains across continents / Evelin Iseli in Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7 (2023) 

Public Citation [article]  inNature Ecology & Evolution > 7 (2023) . - 405-413 Titre : Rapid upwards spread of non-native plants in mountains across continents Type de document : Imprimé Auteurs : Evelin Iseli ; Chelsea Chisholm ; Jonathan Lenoir ; Sylvia Haider ; Tim Seipel ; Agustina Barros ; Anna L. Hargreaves ; Paul kardol ; Jonas J. Lembrechts ; Keith McDougall ; Irfan Rashid ; Sabine B. Rumpf ; José Ramón Arévalo ; Lohengrin A. Cavieres ; Curtis Daehler ; Pervaiz A. Dar ; Bryan Endress ; Gabi Jakobs ; Alejandra Jiménez ; Christoph Küffer ; Maritza Mihoc ; Ann Milbau ; John W. Morgan ; Bridgett J. Naylor ; Aníbal Pauchard ; Amanda Ratier Backes ; Zafar A. Reshi ; Lisa J. Rew ; Damiano Righetti ; James M. Shannon ; Graciela Valencia ; Neville G. Walsh ; Genevieve T. Wright ; Jake Alexander (1980-) Année de publication : 2023 Article en page(s) : 405-413 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : [CBNPMP-Thématique] Plantes subspontanées, naturalisées, envahissantes Résumé : High-elevation ecosystems are among the few ecosystems worldwide that are not yet heavily invaded by non-native plants. This is expected to change as species expand their range limits upwards to fill their climatic niches and respond to ongoing anthropogenic disturbances. Yet, whether and how quickly these changes are happening has only been assessed in a few isolated cases. Starting in 2007, we conducted repeated surveys of non-native plant distributions along mountain roads in 11 regions from 5 continents. We show that over a 5- to 10-year period, the number of non-native species increased on average by approximately 16% per decade across regions. The direction and magnitude of upper range limit shifts depended on elevation across all regions. Supported by a null-model approach accounting for range changes expected by chance alone, we found greater than expected upward shifts at lower/mid elevations in at least seven regions. After accounting for elevation dependence, significant average upward shifts were detected in a further three regions (revealing evidence for upward shifts in 10 of 11 regions). Together, our results show that mountain environments are becoming increasingly exposed to biological invasions, emphasizing the need to monitor and prevent potential biosecurity issues emerging in high-elevation ecosystems. Lien pérenne : DOI : 10.1038/s41559-022-01979-6 Permalink : https://biblio.cbnpmp.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=150556 Iseli, Evelin, Chisholm, Chelsea, Lenoir, Jonathan, Haider, Sylvia, Seipel, Tim, Barros, Agustina, Hargreaves, Anna L., kardol, Paul, Lembrechts, Jonas J., McDougall, Keith, Rashid, Irfan, Rumpf, Sabine B., Arévalo, José Ramón, Cavieres, Lohengrin A., Daehler, Curtis, Dar, Pervaiz A., Endress, Bryan, Jakobs, Gabi, Jiménez, Alejandra, Küffer, Christoph, Mihoc, Maritza, Milbau, Ann, Morgan, John W., Naylor, Bridgett J., Pauchard, Aníbal, Ratier Backes, Amanda, Reshi, Zafar A., Rew, Lisa J., Righetti, Damiano, Shannon, James M., Valencia, Graciela, Walsh, Neville G., Wright, Genevieve T., Alexander, Jake (1980-) 2023 Rapid upwards spread of non-native plants in mountains across continents. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7: 405-413.

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