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To determine how physical stress gradients, regional species pool size, and native plant diversity regulate exotic plant richness across and within different grassland habitats.

May 27, 2007Journal of Ecology

Habitat stress, species pool size and biotic resistance influence exotic plant richness in the Flooding Pampa grasslands

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To determine how physical stress gradients, regional species pool size, and native plant diversity regulate exotic plant richness across and within different grassland habitats.
Evaluated native and exotic plant species richness across multiple grassland types (halophyte steppes, lowland meadows, humid prairies, and mesophyte prairies) in the Flooding Pampas of Argentina.
Analyzed correlations between exotic species richness, landscape species pool size, native species richness, and soil environmental gradients including salinity, soil depth, and organic carbon.
Native and exotic richness correlated positively across habitats, increasing from stressful halophyte steppes to mesophyte prairies alongside larger landscape species pools.
Both native and exotic species numbers declined with higher soil salinity and shallower soil depth, while showing a unimodal response to soil organic carbon.
Biotic resistance emerged selectively in humid prairies, where exotic richness and cover of annual cool-season forbs declined as the richness of native warm-season grasses increased.

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Observational study reveals that physical stress and specific native functional groups regulate exotic plant richness in grasslands, indicating biotic resistance operates primarily at intermediate...

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Perelman et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a71edaafebe604dd70a59d2 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01255.x

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Observational study reveals that physical stress and specific native functional groups regulate exotic plant richness in grasslands, indicating biotic resistance operates primarily at intermediate...

Habitat stress, species pool size and biotic resistance influence exotic plant richness in the Flooding Pampa grasslands

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