Habitat change and alteration of plant and invertebrate communities in waterbodies dominated by the invasive alien macrophyte Lemna minuta Kunth

Ceschin, Simona; Ferrante, G.; Mariani, Flaminia; Traversetti, Lorenzo; Ellwood, Neil Thomas William

doi:10.1007/s10530-019-02185-5

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“…Some studies focused on the impact of Lemna minuta on freshwater ecosystems. The results highlighted substantial negative effects on water quality and on aquatic plant and animal communities (Ceschin et al, 2019(Ceschin et al, , 2020, showing that L. minuta causes severe alterations to the local vegetation, often replacing native species, such as the congeneric L. minor. Indeed L. minuta assimilates available nutrients faster than the native species and shows a higher relative growth rate (Ceschin et al, 2016a(Ceschin et al, , 2016b, characteristics that make this species Table 2 Matrices of correlation between the number of N2000 habitats (Habitats), number of macro-categories of N2000 habitats (Macro-habitats) and number of invaded administrative regions (Regions), for each introduction period.…”

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Impact of invasive alien plants on native plant communities and Natura 2000 habitats: State of the art, gap analysis and perspectives in Italy

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Journal of Environmental Management

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Invasive alien plants are a major threat to biodiversity and they contribute to the unfavourable conservation status of habitats of interest to the European Community. In order to favour implementation of European Union Regulation no. 1143/2014 on invasive alien species, the Italian Society of Vegetation Science carried out a large survey led by a task force of 49 contributors with expertise in vegetation across all the Italian administrative regions. The survey summed up the knowledge on impact mechanisms of invasive alien plants in Italy and their outcomes on plant communities and the EU habitats of Community Interest, in accordance with Directive no. 92/ 43/EEC. The survey covered 241 alien plant species reported as having deleterious ecological impacts. The data collected illustrate the current state of the art, highlight the main gaps in knowledge, and suggest topics to be further investigated. In particular, the survey underlined competition as being the main mechanism of ecological impact on plant communities and Natura 2000 habitats. Of the 241 species, only Ailanthus altissima was found to exert an ecological impact on plant communities and Natura 2000 habitats in all Italian regions; while a further 20 species impact up to ten out of the 20 Italian administrative regions. Our data indicate that 84 out of 132 Natura 2000 Habitats (64%) are subjected to some degree of impact by invasive alien plants. Freshwater habitats and natural and semi-natural grassland formations were impacted by the highest number of alien species, followed by coastal sand dunes and inland dunes, and forests. Although not exhaustive, this research is the first example of nationwide evaluation of the ecological impacts of invasive alien plants on plant communities and Natura 2000 Habitats.

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Impact of invasive alien plants on native plant communities and Natura 2000 habitats: State of the art, gap analysis and perspectives in Italy

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“…In fact, García-Girón et al (2020c) recently discovered that potential biotic interactions among pond plant species clearly overrode the environmental effects in explaining variation in Mediterranean pond communities. This finding may be very important considering not only the high ecological relevance of plants in the freshwater realm (O'Hare et al, 2018;Law et al, 2019), but also the degradative nature of certain invasive aquatic macrophyte species (Hussner, 2012;Ceschin et al, 2020). However, further evaluations in different regions and different types of inland ecosystems are certainly needed.…”

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Macroecology of macrophytes in the freshwater realm: Patterns, mechanisms and implications

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Broad-scale studies of species distributions and diversity have contributed to the emergence of general macroecological rules. These rules are typically founded on research using well-known terrestrial taxa as models and it is thus uncertain whether aquatic macrophytes follow these macroecological rules. Our purpose is to draw together available information from broad-scale research on aquatic macrophytes growing in lakes, ponds, wetlands, rivers and streams. We summarize how different macroecological rules fit the patterns shown by freshwater plants at various spatial scales. Finally, we outline future actions which should be taken to advance macroecological research on freshwater plants. Our review suggested that some macroecological patterns are relatively well-evidenced for aquatic macrophytes, whereas little information exists for others. We found, for example, that the species richness-latitude relationship follows a unimodal pattern, and species turnover prevails over species nestedness, whereas higher nestedness-related richness differences are found in low beta diversity regions. Contrary to terrestrial plants, climate or history seem not to be dominant determinants explaining these broad-scale patterns; instead local explanatory variables (e.g., water quality, such as alkalinity and nutrients, and hydromorphology) are often important for freshwater plants. We identified several knowledge gaps related, for example, to a smaller number of studies in lotic habitats, compared with lentic habitats, lack of spatiallyadequate aquatic plant studies, deficiency of comprehensive species traits databases for aquatic macrophytes, and absence of a true phylogeny comprising most freshwater plant lineages. We hope this review will encourage the undertaking of additional macroecological investigations on freshwater plants across broad spatial and temporal scales.

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“…Lemna mats are, however, likely to have a detrimental impact on underwater ecosystems, blocking light and creating anaerobic conditions, and these effects should be further examined on a community-scale (but see e.g. Ceschin et al, 2019Ceschin et al, , 2020.…”

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Aquatic plant extracts and coverage mediate larval mosquito survivorship and development

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Habitat change and alteration of plant and invertebrate communities in waterbodies dominated by the invasive alien macrophyte Lemna minuta Kunth

Cited by 31 publications

References 49 publications

Impact of invasive alien plants on native plant communities and Natura 2000 habitats: State of the art, gap analysis and perspectives in Italy

Impact of invasive alien plants on native plant communities and Natura 2000 habitats: State of the art, gap analysis and perspectives in Italy

Macroecology of macrophytes in the freshwater realm: Patterns, mechanisms and implications

Aquatic plant extracts and coverage mediate larval mosquito survivorship and development

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