Challenging the view that invasive non-native plants are not a significant threat to the floristic diversity of Great Britain

• Autoři: HULME Philip; PAUCHARD Anibal; PYŠEK Petr; VILA Montserrat; ALBA Christina; BLACKBURN Tim; BULLOCK James; CHYTRÝ Milan; DAWSON Wayne; DUNN Alison; ESSL Franz Sebastian; GENOVESI Piero; MASKELL Lindsay; MEYERSON Laura; NUNEZ Martin; PERGL Jan; PESCOTT Oliver; POCOCK Michael; RICHARDSON David; ROY Helen; SMART Simon; ŠTAJEROVÁ Kateřina; STOHLGREN Thomas; VAN KLEUNEN Mark; WINTER Marten
• Rok publikování: 2015
• Druh: Článek v odborném periodiku
• Časopis / Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A.
• Fakulta / Pracoviště MU: Přírodovědecká fakulta
• www: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1506517112
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1506517112
• Obor: Ekologie - společenstva
• Klíčová slova: alien species; Great Britain; impact
• Popis: Conservation scientists and practitioners have long recognized that not all non-native species pose a threat to biodiversity, yet some ecologists still fail to grasp this message (1). The conclusions drawn by Thomas and Palmer (2) that non-native plant species are not a threat to floral diversity in Britain highlight how this lack of understanding can lead to inappropriate analyses and misleading inferences regarding the impacts of non-native species. Thomas and Palmer base their conclusions on an analysis of the Countryside Survey (CS): this valuable dataset depicts large-scale vegetation changes in common habitats, but its stratified random design does not provide a comprehensive assessment of the impacts of non-native plant species on native biodiversity.