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Impacts of Solidago gigantea on other species at home and away

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Much attention has been paid to the ecological impacts of invasive plants in their non-native ranges, but few studies have compared these impacts to those in the native ranges of invaders. This is important because biogeographical differences in species interactions suggest that evolutionary history might affect community assembly and thus contribute to our understanding of invasion. We correlated stem densities of Solidago gigantea, native to North America but highly invasive in Europe, with associated plant species richness in plots measured over large areas of the northwestern USA and Hungary. We also compared the effects of Solidago root extracts on the growth of plant species native to Europe and North America and that were common in our field sampling in each region. Increasing stem density of Solidago correlated with significant decreases in total species diversity and native species diversity in Europe, but not in North America. Extracts made from Solidago roots suppressed the root and shoot growth of a suite of species native to Europe and co-occurring with Solidago, more than co-occurring North American species as a group. Our results are consistent with a growing body of literature demonstrating a strong biogeographic context to exotic plant invasions. This body of work indicates that the biogeographic origin of species can affect community organization and that communities with a common evolutionary history might function differently than those that do not share such a history.

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Acknowledgments

The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under REA grant agreement number 300639 (R.W.P.). This research was also supported by the Fulbright Commission (R.W.P.), NSF EPSCoR Track-1 EPS-1101342 (INSTEP 3) (R.M.C), the Provost’s Office of The University of Montana (R.M.C.; R.W.P.), the U.S. National Science Foundation DEB 0614406 (R.M.C.), the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant Numbers 31230014, 31470492 (S.C.), the Central University Special Fund, Grant Numbers lzujbky-2014-k09, lzujbky-2014-200 (S.C.).

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  1. Faculty of Sciences, Institute of Biology, University of Pecs, Ifjusag u. 6, Pecs, 7624, Hungary

    Robert W. Pal & David U. Nagy

  2. Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Agroecology, School of Life Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, People’s Republic of China

    Shuyan Chen

  3. Division of Biological Sciences and the Institute on Ecosystems, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812, USA

    Robert W. Pal, Shuyan Chen & Ragan M. Callaway

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Pal, R.W., Chen, S., Nagy, D.U. et al. Impacts of Solidago gigantea on other species at home and away. Biol Invasions 17, 3317–3325 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-0955-7

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