Public opinions and perceptions of peri-urban plant invasion: the role of garden waste disposal in forest fragments

Šipek, Mirjana; Šajna, Nina

doi:10.3391/mbi.2020.11.4.08

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“…People who behave irresponsibly in their home gardens and allotments may even unintentionally increase the range and accelerate the invasion of invasive species. This is the case when, for example, they remove their bio-waste and leave it in nearby forests [ 66 ]. In this way, species can get into favorable habitats and quickly spread outside cities, e.g., in forests surrounding cities.…”

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Invasive Plant Species Distribution Is Structured by Soil and Habitat Type in the City Landscape

Szumańska

Lubińska-Mielińska

Kamiński

et al. 2021

Plants

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Invasive alien species (IAS) is a global problem that largely relates to human activities and human settlements. To prevent the further spread of IAS, we first need to know their pattern of distribution, to determine which constitutes the greatest threat, and understand which habitats and migration pathways they prefer. Our research aimed to identify the main vectors and distribution pattern of IAS of plants in the city environment. We checked the relations between species distribution and such environmental factors as urban soil type and habitat type. We applied data on IAS occurrence (collected in the period 1973–2015) in 515 permanent plots with dimensions of 0.5 × 0.5 km and analyzed by direct ordination methods. In total, we recorded 66 IAS. We found a 27% variance in the IAS distribution pattern, which can be explained by statistically significant soil and habitat types. The most important for species distribution were: river and alluvial soils, forests and related rusty soils, and places of intensive human activities, including areas of urbisols and industriosols. Our results provide details that can inform local efforts for the management and control of invasive species, and they provide evidence of the different associations between natural patterns and human land use.

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Invasive Plant Species Distribution Is Structured by Soil and Habitat Type in the City Landscape

Szumańska

Lubińska-Mielińska

Kamiński

et al. 2021

Plants

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Lowland forest fragment characteristics and anthropogenic disturbances determine alien plant species richness and composition

Šipek,

Šajna

2024

Biol Invasions

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Loss of habitat and biological invasion are the main threats to biodiversity. In intensive agricultural or urban landscapes, forest fragments, even if they are small and isolated represent biodiversity refugia. Environmental variables such as landscape structure, abiotic conditions and anthropogenic disturbance affect the biodiversity of the fragments. In this study, we explored plant species richness in 48 forest fragments embedded in predominantly agricultural landscapes on the alluvial plains of the Mura and Drava rivers in NE Slovenia. We determined several forest fragment characteristics such as perimeter, area, shape complexity, length and proportion of edge shared with adjacent land-cover types and anthropogenic disturbance indicated by the presence of footpaths and waste disposed in fragments. The abiotic condition of these fragments was assessed by Ellenberg indicator values. We built generalized linear models and ordination analyses to assess the importance of environmental variables for the richness and composition of alien plant species and other ecologically meaningful plant groups. Shape complexity had a consistent positive effect on the richness of native and alien plants species. Major drivers of alien plant composition in forest fragments included adjacent land-cover and urbanization level. An increasing proportion of arable land along the forest fragment perimeter negatively affected the richness of alien plants, while the effect of urban areas was positive. Our results confirmed that forest fragments in the rural–urban matrix represent biodiversity refugia and support native plant species; however, they are not resistant to invasions; instead invasion depends on the land-cover type in the surroundings of a given forest fragment.

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Forest plant invasions in the eastern United States: evidence of invasion debt in the wildland-urban interface

Potter,

Riitters,

Iannone

et al. 2024

Landsc Ecol

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Context Non-native invasive plants are a growing threat to forests. Meanwhile, the amount of forest within the wildland-urban interface (WUI) is increasing, with housing-associated disturbances enabling the spread of non-native plants. Objectives We tested whether (1) WUI or non-WUI forests are more invaded, (2) WUI intermix forests (houses mingling with forest) are more invaded than interface forests (housing abutting forest), (3) invasion in WUI forests is delayed (invasion debt) following housing development, and (4) WUI forest invasion is associated with land cover context (a proxy for disturbance and propagule pressure). Methods We conducted statistical comparisons of plant invasion metrics using WUI status information intersected with ~ 45,000 forest inventory plots (collected ca. 2015). We evaluated potential drivers of invasion using an ensemble learning approach and adopted a mixed-effects modeling framework to assess relationships between drivers and invasion. Results Our analyses revealed that the degree of invasion in WUI forest plots was significantly higher. We found evidence for invasion debt, including greater invasion of plots in the WUI longer. WUI interface forests were more invaded than intermix forests. Agricultural and developed land cover at medium to large scales (~ 66 − 5,300 hectares) were most highly associated with WUI forest invasion. Conclusions These findings elucidate dynamic plant invasion patterns and processes occurring within the WUI. They underscore the importance of monitoring and managing forests that have recently entered the WUI, with an emphasis on sources of exotic plant propagules at relatively large scales, before the housing invasion debt comes due.

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Public opinions and perceptions of peri-urban plant invasion: the role of garden waste disposal in forest fragments

Cited by 5 publications

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Invasive Plant Species Distribution Is Structured by Soil and Habitat Type in the City Landscape

Invasive Plant Species Distribution Is Structured by Soil and Habitat Type in the City Landscape

Lowland forest fragment characteristics and anthropogenic disturbances determine alien plant species richness and composition

Forest plant invasions in the eastern United States: evidence of invasion debt in the wildland-urban interface

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