China's Booming Economy Is Sparking and Accelerating Biological Invasions

Ding, Jianqing; Mack, Richard N.; Lu, Ping; Ren, Ming‐Xun; Huang, Hongwen

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“…Anoxic conditions in these same reservoirs, however, are likely to increase the contributions of inland waters to outgassing of methane, a greenhouse gas that is about 25 times more potent than CO 2 . Anthropogenic impoundments are altering the landscape with other important consequences: they are 2.4-300 times more likely to harbor invasive species and they are accelerating the spread of invasive species by decreasing the distance to the nearest stepping-stone of water (Ding et al 2008;Johnson et al 2008;Rahel and Olden 2008).…”

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Lakes and reservoirs as sentinels, integrators, and regulators of climate change

Williamson

Saros

Vincent

et al. 2009

Limnology & Oceanography

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Climate change is generating complex responses in both natural and human ecosystems that vary in their geographic distribution, magnitude, and timing across the global landscape. One of the major issues that scientists and policy makers now confront is how to assess such massive changes over multiple scales of space and time. Lakes and reservoirs comprise a geographically distributed network of the lowest points in the surrounding landscape that make them important sentinels of climate change. Their physical, chemical, and biological responses to climate provide a variety of information-rich signals. Their sediments archive and integrate these signals, enabling paleolimnologists to document changes over years to millennia. Lakes are also hot spots of carbon cycling in the landscape and as such are important regulators of climate change, processing terrestrial and atmospheric as well as aquatic carbon. We provide an overview of this concept of lakes and reservoirs as sentinels, integrators, and regulators of climate change, as well as of the need for scaling and modeling these responses in the context of global climate change. We conclude by providing a brief look to the future and the creation of globally networked sensors in lakes and reservoirs around the world.

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confidence: 99%

Lakes and reservoirs as sentinels, integrators, and regulators of climate change

Williamson

Saros

Vincent

et al. 2009

Limnology & Oceanography

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“…While these data reflect greater efforts to detect invasions (but see Lin et al 2007), increasing invasions should also be attributed to the unprecedented economic development of China (Ding et al 2008). In addition, the domestic boom of industrial and transportation infrastructures, coupled with unparalleled rates of urbanization and rampant ecological degradation, have fostered alien species establishment and spread throughout China (Lin et al 2007;Ding et al, 2008;.…”

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Biological invasions in rapidly urbanizing areas: a case study of Beijing, China

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Urbanization is widely recognized as a major factor promoting biological invasions worldwide. In this article, we provide insights into the patterns of biological invasions in Beijing, one of the largest and quickly urbanizing cities of the world, by developing a comprehensive list of naturalized and invasive flora and their associate traits (e.g., distribution, life form, habitat, or geographic origin). One hundred and twelve naturalized (including 48 invasive) plants have been identified within the Beijing Municipality. Most of the naturalized and invasive plants belong to four families (Asteraceae, Poaceae, Amaranthaceae, and Euphorbiaceae) and are annual herbs that preferentially grow in disturbed sites. North and South America are the main contributors to the naturalized and invasive flora of Beijing. As expected, those Beijing districts that have recently experienced the highest human population growth, urban expansion, and the largest economic growth are also those with the highest number of naturalized and invasive species. Urban expansion is predicted to continue in the near term making additional invasions likely that will significantly increase the proportion of introduced species in Beijing's flora. An integrated management strategy for the whole municipality is urgently needed that includes comprehensive scientific research that documents the extent of invasions and their effects on Beijing's economy and environment.

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“…Where it is not native, Spartina is now mostly considered to be a bane. The tendencies of elevating shorelines to the point of transforming salt marsh into terrestrial habitat, of overgrowing native plants, threatening native animals, and of hybridizing with native Spartina species are what makes these (Sloop et al 2009;Ding et al 2008;Nordby et al 2009). …”

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Lateral spread of invasive Spartina alterniflora in uncrowded environments

Dennis

Civille²,

Strong

2010

Biol Invasions

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We present a stochastic model of clonal growth in uncrowded environments and use it to study data of 7,536 clones from the invasion of Willapa Bay, Washington by the Atlantic cordgrass Spartina alterniflora. The model incorporates effects on clone growth of covariates, spatial autocorrelation, and temporal trends. The deterministic component of the model assumes that growth rate of a clone's area is proportional to its perimeter, resulting in constant radial growth of the clone. The full stochastic model is built assuming that the fluctuations of radial growth increments (differences of square root-transformed areas) are normally distributed with constant variance. Graphical fit analysis with the density probability plot technique indicates that the stochastic model provides an excellent description of the S. alterniflora invasion. Variation in Spartina growth was significantly but weakly (5%) related to intertidal elevation, substrate type, year of survey, and the twoway interactions between these variables, suggesting that factors intrinsic to Spartina, along with localized high frequency noise, dominate the effects of larger scale abiotic factors on clone growth. Our model of clonal growth is potentially applicable to other systems with approximately circular plants or lichens.

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China's Booming Economy Is Sparking and Accelerating Biological Invasions

Abstract: China has undergone enormous economic growth in the last

Cited by 164 publications

References 22 publications

Lakes and reservoirs as sentinels, integrators, and regulators of climate change

Lakes and reservoirs as sentinels, integrators, and regulators of climate change

Biological invasions in rapidly urbanizing areas: a case study of Beijing, China

Lateral spread of invasive Spartina alterniflora in uncrowded environments

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