title: Conyza canadensis suppresses plant diversity in its nonnative ranges but not at home: a transcontinental comparison.
abstract: The impact of invasive species across their native and nonnative ranges is poorly quantified and this impedes a complete understanding of biological invasions. We compared the impact of the native North American plant, Conyza canadensis, which is invasive to Eurasia, on species richness at home and in a number of introduced regions through well replicated transcontinental field studies, glasshouse experiments and individual-based models. Our results demonstrated mostly negative relationships between C. canadensis abundance and native species richness in nonnative ranges, but either positive or no relationships in its native North American range. In glasshouse experiments, the total biomass of Conyza was suppressed more by species from its native range than by species from regions where it is nonnative, but the effects of Conyza on other species did not show a consistent biogeographical pattern. Finally, individual-based models led to the exclusion of Conyza from North American scenarios but to high abundances in scenarios with species from the nonnative ranges of Conyza. We illustrate biogeographical differences in the impact of an invader across regional scales and suggest that inherent differences in one specific aspect of competitive ability, tolerance to the effects of other species, may play some role in these differences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, 190 006, Jammu & Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Manzoor A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.affiliation: Division of Biological Sciences and the Institute on Ecosystems, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812, USA.
authors.forename: Ragan M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Callaway
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, 190 006, Jammu & Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Tabasum
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA.
authors.forename: Gregory R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Houseman
authors.affiliation: Division of Biological Sciences and the Institute on Ecosystems, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812, USA.|Faculty of Sciences, University of Pecs, Ifjusagu, 6, H-7624, Pecs, Hungary.
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Pal
authors.affiliation: Division of Biological Sciences and the Institute on Ecosystems, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812, USA.|Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations (Ministry of Education), School of Life Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Sa
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, 130024, China.
authors.forename: Wenbo
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, D-06108, Halle/Saale, Germany.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rosche
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, 190 006, Jammu & Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Zafar A
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Reshi
authors.affiliation: Centre for Forest Research and Institute for Systems and Integrative Biology, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, GIV0A6, Canada.
authors.forename: Damase P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Khasa
authors.affiliation: Division of Biological Sciences and the Institute on Ecosystems, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812, USA.|Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations (Ministry of Education), School of Life Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Shuyan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D018533:Biomass; D035401:Conyza / Q000502:physiology*; D004463:Ecology; D017753:Ecosystem; D058865:Introduced Species; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D058974:Phylogeography
keywords: Conyza canadensis; biogeography; competition; cross-continental experiment; impact; invasion ecology; plant community; species diversity