Social-ecological drivers and impacts of invasion-related regime shifts: consequences for ecosystem services and human wellbeing
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Many invasive alien plants modify ecosystems in ways that enhance their own persistence and suppress native species through reinforcing feedbacks, causing regime shifts.
“Many invasive alien plants modify ecosystems in ways that enhance their own persistence and suppress native species through reinforcing feedbacks, causing regime shifts (altered states of ecosystem structure and function that are difficult or impossible to reverse).”
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The Introduction describes how an introduced species can alter self-reinforcing feedbacks and, if it becomes dominant, precipitate a regime shift. But section 6.1 directly contradicts the claim’s “many”: it says only a small proportion of invasive alien species are likely to cause regime shifts. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredInvasive trees and shrubs in forests and herbaceous invaders in wetlands impact soil-nutrient cycling by modifying the composition of soil seed banks and changing fire regimes.
“Examples include impacts on soil‐nutrient cycling caused by invasive trees and shrubs in forests and by herbaceous invaders in wetlands, through modifying the composition of soil seed banks and changed fire regimes (Gaertner et al., 2014; Gioria, Jarošík, & Pyšek, 2014; Shackleton et al., 2018)”
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Section 2.1 reports that invasive wattles increase soil nitrogen, alter soil chemistry, and intensify fires; the Discussion also describes invasive shrubs changing forest soil properties and fire regimes. But the paper does not establish that these changes affect soil-nutrient cycling through altered soil seed-bank composition, or describe that mechanism for herbaceous wetland invaders. Its aquatic-plant case study (§5.1) concerns water chemistry and nutrients, not wetland soils. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Shackleton, R. T., Biggs, R., Richardson, D. M., & Larson, B. M. H.
- Affiliations
- University of Waterloo (CA)
- Stockholm Resilience Centre (SE)
- Stellenbosch University (ZA)
- Corresponding author
- Shackleton, Ross T.
- Venue
- Environmental Science & Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-11
- Volume
- 89
- Pages
- 300-314
- ISSN
- 1462-9011 (ISSN-L)
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- en
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- Environmental Science & Policy (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- DST-NRF Centre for Invasion Biology
- National Research Foundation of South Africa (85417)
- Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies at Stellenbosch University
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
- South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) of the Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation of South Africa (98766)
- Swedish International Development Agency (Sida)
- Young Researchers
- Vetenskapsrådet in Sweden (621-2014-5137)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Keywords
- biological invasions, tipping points, ecosystem services, human well-being, social-ecological systems, ecological thresholds, causal loop diagrams, adaptive governance, invasive species management, Acacia, fynbos, Nile perch, Lake Victoria, chestnut blight, Salvinia molesta, water hyacinth, floating macrophytes, social-ecological resilience, global change
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