Soils Suppressing and Promoting Non-native Plant Invasions

摘要: Non-native invasive plants are an increasing concern and found on every continent the globe, including Antarctica. While non-native invasives sometimes provide benefits to humans or wildlife, they often impair ecosystem services, crowding out native plant species, pre-empting scarce water nutrients, creating novel communities that can disrupt animal herbivore pollinator communities. Many of these impacts have economic consequences for as well. Therefore, understanding predicting invasions their has become a major challenge ecologists. This chapter reviews ways in which soils influence establishment spread plants. I focus first abiotic biotic attributes, interactions, initial stage invasion, is heuristically defined before been present long enough densities high substantially alter soil properties. Then describe properties discuss potential feedback effects invasion rate result from invasion-induced changes. also suggest some areas where further research could be useful improve our when how suppress promote