Science and Technology Production
Article
Authorship
Rahmanian, Soroor
;
Eisenhauer, Nico
;
et al.
;
GONZALEZ, SOFIA LAURA
;
Maestre, Fernando T.
Date
2026
Publishing House and Editing Place
springer nature
Magazine
Nature Ecology & Evolution,
vol. 10
(pp. 523-535)
springer nature
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Drivers of non-native plant success in drylands are poorly understood. Herewe identify functional differences between dryland native and non-nativeperennial plants and assess how biotic, abiotic and anthropogenic factorsshape the success of the latter. On the basis of plant community andfunctional trait data from 98 sites across 25 countries, we report a total of 41non-native plant species at 31 sites. Non-natives tend towards faster growthstrategies than natives. Non-native plant richness is h...
Drivers of non-native plant success in drylands are poorly understood. Herewe identify functional differences between dryland native and non-nativeperennial plants and assess how biotic, abiotic and anthropogenic factorsshape the success of the latter. On the basis of plant community andfunctional trait data from 98 sites across 25 countries, we report a total of 41non-native plant species at 31 sites. Non-natives tend towards faster growthstrategies than natives. Non-native plant richness is higher at sites withgreater grazing pressure and under environmental conditions associatedwith higher soil fertility, decomposition and fungal richness—conditionsthat tend to occur in less arid regions—and lower where native plant andherbivore richness are greater. Non-native plant cover correlates positivelywith grazing pressure and negatively with native plant richness. Takentogether, our results suggest that non-native plant success in drylands isfacilitated when high grazing pressure coincides with elevated resourceavailability. Such context-dependence of non-native plant success andlinkages with native plant and herbivore diversity highlight the need formanaging grazing and conserving biodiversity across the world’s drylands.
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Key Words
DRYLANDSEXOTIC SPECIESSOIL FERTILITYBIODIVERSITYGRAZING