Benefits and costs of controlling three allergenic alien species under climate change and dispersal scenarios in Central Europe

Plank, Leonhard; Zak, Denise; Getzner, Michael; Follak, Swen; Essl, Franz; Dullinger, Stefan; Kleinbauer, Ingrid; Moser, Dietmar; Gattringer, Andreas

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2015.10.006

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“…It rapidly expanded and has become a weed of great importance in cultivated lands, mainly soybean, sunflower, maize, and sugar beet [23,24,25]. Common ragweed is also known for its high allergenicity, with several socio-economic consequences [26,27], and considerable effort has been dedicated to its control or even eradication [28,29,30,31,32,33].…”

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Investigating the Current and Future Co-Occurrence of Ambrosia artemisiifolia and Ophraella communa in Europe through Ecological Modelling and Remote Sensing Data Analysis

Iannella

Simone

D’Alessandro

et al. 2019

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The common ragweed Ambrosia artemisiifolia has spread throughout Europe since the 1800s, infesting croplands and causing severe allergic reactions. Recently, the ragweed leaf beetle Ophraella communa was found in Italy and Switzerland; considering that it feeds primarily on A. artemisiifolia in its invaded ranges, some projects started biological control of this invasive plant through the adventive beetle. In this context of a ‘double’ invasion, we assessed the influence of climate change on the spread of these alien species through ecological niche modelling. Considering that A. artemisiifolia mainly lives in agricultural and urbanized areas, we refined the models using satellite remote-sensing data; we also assessed the co-occurrence of the two species in these patches. A. artemisiifolia is predicted to expand more than O. communa in the future, with the medium and high classes of suitability of the former increasing more than the latter, resulting in lower efficacy for O. communa to potentially control A. artemisiifolia in agricultural and urbanized patches. Although a future assessment was performed through the 2018 land-cover data, the predictions we propose are intended to be a starting point for future assessments, considering that the possibility of a shrinkage of target patches is unlikely to occur.

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Investigating the Current and Future Co-Occurrence of Ambrosia artemisiifolia and Ophraella communa in Europe through Ecological Modelling and Remote Sensing Data Analysis

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Simone

D’Alessandro

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“…A typical example is Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. and A . trifida L. which pollens induce respiratory diseases, and management costs to avoid allergy outbreaks are very high 9 .…”

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“…Considering that climate change is likely to exacerbate the negative effects of invasive alien species, as it will foster their further spread especially in the most fertile areas 9 , the economic resources and human energy demanded for managing invasive plants are expected to increase. The engagement of the citizen and other stakeholders to improve actions aimed at controlling the invaders creates societal challenges that policy makers are asked to prioritize 16 .…”

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Bioprospecting on invasive plant species to prevent seed dispersal

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Galimberti

Bruni

et al. 2017

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AbsractThe most anthropized regions of the world are characterized by an impressive abundance of invasive plants, which alter local biodiversity and ecosystem services. An alternative strategy to manage these species could be based on the exploitation of their fruits in a framework of bioprospecting to obtain high-added value compounds or phytocomplexes that are useful for humans. Here we tested this hypothesis on three invasive plants (Lonicera japonica Thunb., Phytolacca americana L., and Prunus serotina Ehrh.) in the Po plain (northern Italy) which bear fruits that are highly consumed by frugivorous birds and therefore dispersed over large distances. Our biochemical analyses revealed that unripe fruit shows high antioxidant properties due to the presence of several classes of polyphenols, which have a high benchmark value on the market. Fruit collection for phytochemical extraction could really prevent seed dispersal mediated by frugivorous animals and produce economic gains to support local management actions.

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“…These results suggest that warming may not facilitate the success of these invasive plant species due to the opposing impacts of warming in winter and summer. Although in many modelling studies of invasive alien plants and expansion under simulated temperature changes, native plants are not used as controls ( Kleinbauer et al 2010 ; Plank et al 2016 ), climate warming sometimes has different effects on alien plant species compared with their closely related native counterparts ( Verlinden and Nijs 2010 ). Therefore, we compared the impacts of symmetric and asymmetric warming between the invasives and the natives to evaluate the effects of warming on plant invasion.…”

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Differential responses of invasive and native plants to warming with simulated changes in diurnal temperature ranges

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We tested the impacts of unequal night-and-day warming on seed germination and seedling growth of invasive and native plants. Most warming treatments facilitated native seed germination but not that of invasives. The invaders performed better than the natives, and they allocated greater biomass to stems than the natives under all warming treatments. Compared with symmetric warming, both an increase and decrease in the asymmetric summer warming inhibited the growth of the invaders but not the natives, whereas the decrease in asymmetric winter warming inhibited the growth of both invasive and native plants. These findings highlight the importance of asymmetric warming in influencing plant invasion.

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Benefits and costs of controlling three allergenic alien species under climate change and dispersal scenarios in Central Europe

Cited by 9 publications

References 52 publications

Investigating the Current and Future Co-Occurrence of Ambrosia artemisiifolia and Ophraella communa in Europe through Ecological Modelling and Remote Sensing Data Analysis

Investigating the Current and Future Co-Occurrence of Ambrosia artemisiifolia and Ophraella communa in Europe through Ecological Modelling and Remote Sensing Data Analysis

Bioprospecting on invasive plant species to prevent seed dispersal

Differential responses of invasive and native plants to warming with simulated changes in diurnal temperature ranges

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