Running bamboo species pose a greater invasion risk than clumping bamboo species in the continental United States

Lieurance, Deah; Cooper, Aimee L.; Young, Austin L; Gordon, Doria R.; Flory, S. Luke

doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2018.02.012

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“…Species in this genus are “runners,” that is, they send underground rhizomes to produce shoots several meters from parent plants. This growth form enables them to spread more rapidly than other species, such as those with a clumping growth form (Lieurance, Cooper, Young, Gordon, & Flory, ). The overrepresentation of this genus in studies reporting impacts in bamboos suggests that impacts are common and dramatic, and that further impacts are very likely in new areas where Phyllostachys species are introduced and planted.…”

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Does origin determine environmental impacts? Not for bamboos

Canavan

Kumschick

Roux

et al. 2019

Plants People Planet

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Societal Impact Statement Non‐native species can cause considerable negative impacts in natural ecosystems. Such impacts often are directly due to the fact that these species occur in habitats where they did not evolve. We explored this for bamboos and found that, contrary to the situation in many other plant groups, biogeographic origin was not a strong predictor of the type and severity of environmental impacts caused. We argue that impacts from bamboos are a response to land transformation and disturbance of forest habitats by humans. Therefore, the threats posed by bamboos to highly disturbed forest systems should be the same wherever bamboos are present or planted, and management should adopt similar approaches. Summary Negative environmental impacts can result from the human‐mediated breakdown of biogeographic boundaries that historically shaped species distributions leading to rapid population expansions, that is, from biological invasions. However, the alteration of natural ecosystems by humans has created opportunities for both native and non‐native species to become weedy. We assessed whether origin status (native or non‐native) matters for the type and magnitude of environmental impacts caused by bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae). We used a systematic global literature search and the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Environmental Impact Classification of Alien Taxa (EICAT) scheme as the basis for scoring impacts of bamboo species. We found that the type and severity of recorded impacts were similar in the native and non‐native ranges of weedy bamboos, and that the habitats in which impacts are most often reported (i.e., temperate and tropical forests) were also the same. Origin was not a strong predictor of environmental impacts for bamboos. Rather, impacts are likely to be a response to human‐mediated land transformation and disturbance of forests. Further research on the mechanisms whereby bamboos impact other species is needed to guide management strategies in their native ranges and as input to risk assessments for new introductions and plantings.

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Does origin determine environmental impacts? Not for bamboos

Canavan

Kumschick

Roux

et al. 2019

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“…The bamboo leaves at the middle altitude (400 m) had the lowest LDMC and highest SLA, indicating a strengthening of their ability to capture light and produce dry matter ( Long et al, 2011 ; Zhang et al, 2015 ). Bamboos are clonal plants with strong horizontal clonal growth and expansion ability ( Dong, 2011 ; Lieurance et al, 2018 ). P. amarus is one of the most important amphipodial bamboos, and the buds along rhizomes or at culm bases all have the potential to grow into new bamboo plants.…”

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Altitudinal Patterns of Leaf Traits and Leaf Allometry in Bamboo Pleioblastus amarus

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Lin²,

Chen

et al. 2018

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Awareness of local-scale variation in leaf traits for a single species and the relationships between these traits and their dependence on altitude might be essential for extrapolating ecophysiological processes from the leaf to the ecosystem level. While altitudinal patterns of leaf traits have been extensively studied in a number of species, little is known about such patterns in bamboos. We analyzed leaf functional traits and leaf allometric relationships of Pleioblastus amarus at three different altitudes (200, 400, and 800 m). With increasing altitude, most functional traits, including leaf length, width, perimeter, area, dry weight, and water content, decreased significantly, while the leaf length:width ratio exhibited a marked increase, resulting in a tendency toward narrow leaves. Specific leaf area first increased, and then decreased, while the change in leaf dry matter content showed the opposite trend. Leaf area was positively correlated with leaf length, leaf width and leaf perimeter, but negatively correlated with the leaf length:width ratio. With increasing altitude, the slopes of these relationships for leaf area first increased, and then decreased. Leaf biomass was positively correlated with leaf length, width, perimeter, and area, with the slopes of the relationships being the same at all altitudes. Thus, the leaves of this bamboo species at middle altitude have the highest specific leaf area and lowest leaf dry matter content. Our findings suggest that this bamboo species has a big potential of growth and morphological plasticity.

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“…Thus, plants damaged by the treatments likely received assimilation products from ramets outside the blocks, facilitating their recovery. Furthermore, it is likely that quadrats were colonized by Sasa ramets growing adjacent to study plots via rapid rhizome expansion (Kudo et al 2011;Lieurance et al 2018). This process likely promoted the prompt recovery of Sasa plants both prior to and after clear-cutting.…”

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“…species of Sasa, Pleioblastus, and Sasaella, according to the nomenclature of Yonekura and Kajita (2003), which we use in the following text) are more common than thos:e with short rhizomes and clumped culms (Konno 1977). Species with long rhizomes spread rapidly (Lieurance et al 2018) and form large genets as long as several hundred meters (Suyama et al 2000). Rhizomes often survive when aboveground organs are removed, subsequently producing new culms (Kawahara 1978;Morisawa et al 2010); even when damaged, they may receive assimilation products from distant live culms in the same genet (Saitoh et al 2000(Saitoh et al , 2002 that may promote their survival.…”

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confidence: 99%