Publications
Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions
Delavaux, Camille S.; Crowther, Thomas W.; Zohner, Constantin M.; Robmann, Niamh M.; Lauber, Thomas; van den Hoogen, Johan; Kuebbing, Sara; Liang, Jingjing; de-Miguel, Sergio; Nabuurs, Gert Jan; Reich, Peter B.; Abegg, Meinrad; Adou Yao, Yves C.; Alberti, Giorgio; Almeyda Zambrano, Angelica M.; Alvarado, Braulio Vilchez; Alvarez-Dávila, Esteban; Alvarez-Loayza, Patricia; Alves, Luciana F.; Ammer, Christian; Antón-Fernández, Clara; Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro; Arroyo, Luzmila; Avitabile, Valerio; Aymard, Gerardo A.; Baker, Timothy R.; Bałazy, Radomir; Banki, Olaf; Barroso, Jorcely G.; Bastian, Meredith L.; Bastin, Jean Francois; Birigazzi, Luca; Birnbaum, Philippe; Bitariho, Robert; Boeckx, Pascal; Bongers, Frans; Bouriaud, Olivier; Brancalion, Pedro H.S.; Brandl, Susanne; Brienen, Roel; Broadbent, Eben N.; Bruelheide, Helge; Bussotti, Filippo; Gatti, Roberto Cazzolla; César, Ricardo G.; Cesljar, Goran; Chazdon, Robin; Chen, Han Y.H.; Chisholm, Chelsea; Cho, Hyunkook; Cienciala, Emil; Clark, Connie; Clark, David; Colletta, Gabriel D.; Coomes, David A.; Cornejo Valverde, Fernando; Corral-Rivas, José J.; Crim, Philip M.; Cumming, Jonathan R.; Dayanandan, Selvadurai; de Gasper, André L.; Decuyper, Mathieu; Derroire, Géraldine; DeVries, Ben; Djordjevic, Ilija; Dolezal, Jiri; Dourdain, Aurélie; Engone Obiang, Nestor Laurier; Enquist, Brian J.; Eyre, Teresa J.; Fandohan, Adandé Belarmain; Fayle, Tom M.; Feldpausch, Ted R.; Ferreira, Leandro V.; Fischer, Markus; Fletcher, Christine; Frizzera, Lorenzo; Gamarra, Javier G.P.; Gianelle, Damiano; Glick, Henry B.; Harris, David J.; Hector, Andrew; Hemp, Andreas; Hengeveld, Geerten; Hérault, Bruno; Herbohn, John L.; Herold, Martin; Hillers, Annika; Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N.; Hui, Cang; Ibanez, Thomas T.; Amaral, Iêda; Imai, Nobuo; Jagodziński, Andrzej M.; Jaroszewicz, Bogdan; Johannsen, Vivian Kvist; Joly, Carlos A.; Jucker, Tommaso; Jung, Ilbin; Karminov, Viktor; Kartawinata, Kuswata; Kearsley, Elizabeth; Kenfack, David; Kennard, Deborah K.; Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian; Keppel, Gunnar; Khan, Mohammed Latif; Killeen, Timothy J.; Kim, Hyun Seok; Kitayama, Kanehiro; Köhl, Michael; Korjus, Henn; Kraxner, Florian; Laarmann, Diana; Lang, Mait; Lewis, Simon L.; Lu, Huicui; Lukina, Natalia V.; Maitner, Brian S.; Malhi, Yadvinder; Marcon, Eric; Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes; Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur; Marshall, Andrew R.; Martin, Emanuel H.; Martynenko, Olga; Meave, Jorge A.; Melo-Cruz, Omar; Mendoza, Casimiro; Merow, Cory; Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo; Moreno, Vanessa S.; Mukul, Sharif A.; Mundhenk, Philip; Nava-Miranda, María Guadalupe; Neill, David; Neldner, Victor J.; Nevenic, Radovan V.; Ngugi, Michael R.; Niklaus, Pascal A.; Oleksyn, Jacek; Ontikov, Petr; Ortiz-Malavasi, Edgar; Pan, Yude; Paquette, Alain; Parada-Gutierrez, Alexander; Parfenova, Elena I.; Park, Minjee; Parren, Marc; Parthasarathy, Narayanaswamy; Peri, Pablo L.; Pfautsch, Sebastian; Phillips, Oliver L.; Picard, Nicolas; Piedade, Maria Teresa T.F.; Piotto, Daniel; Pitman, Nigel C.A.; Polo, Irina; Poorter, Lourens; Poulsen, Axel D.; Pretzsch, Hans; Ramirez Arevalo, Freddy; Restrepo-Correa, Zorayda; Rodeghiero, Mirco; Rolim, Samir G.; Roopsind, Anand; Rovero, Francesco; Rutishauser, Ervan; Saikia, Purabi; Salas-Eljatib, Christian; Saner, Philippe; Schall, Peter; Schepaschenko, Dmitry; Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael; Schmid, Bernhard; Schöngart, Jochen; Searle, Eric B.; Seben, Vladimír; Serra-Diaz, Josep M.; Sheil, Douglas; Shvidenko, Anatoly Z.; Silva-Espejo, Javier E.; Silveira, Marcos; Singh, James; Sist, Plinio; Slik, Ferry; Sonké, Bonaventure; Souza, Alexandre F.; Stanislaw, Miscicki; Stereńczak, Krzysztof J.; Svenning, Jens Christian; Svoboda, Miroslav; Swanepoel, Ben; Targhetta, Natalia; Tchebakova, Nadja; ter Steege, Hans; Thomas, Raquel; Tikhonova, Elena; Umunay, Peter M.; Usoltsev, Vladimir A.; Valencia, Renato; Valladares, Fernando; van der Plas, Fons; Do, Tran Van; van Nuland, Michael E.; Vasquez, Rodolfo M.; Verbeeck, Hans; Viana, Helder; Vibrans, Alexander C.; Vieira, Simone; von Gadow, Klaus; Wang, Hua Feng; Watson, James V.; Werner, Gijsbert D.A.; Wiser, Susan K.; Wittmann, Florian; Woell, Hannsjoerg; Wortel, Verginia; Zagt, Roderik; Zawiła-Niedźwiecki, Tomasz; Zhang, Chunyu; Zhao, Xiuhai; Zhou, Mo; Zhu, Zhi Xin; Zo-Bi, Irie C.; Maynard, Daniel S.
Summary
Determining the drivers of non-native plant invasions is critical for managing native ecosystems and limiting the spread of invasive species1,2. Tree invasions in particular have been relatively overlooked, even though they have the potential to transform ecosystems and economies3,4. Here, leveraging global tree databases5–7, we explore how the phylogenetic and functional diversity of native tree communities, human pressure and the environment influence the establishment of non-native tree species and the subsequent invasion severity. We find that anthropogenic factors are key to predicting whether a location is invaded, but that invasion severity is underpinned by native diversity, with higher diversity predicting lower invasion severity. Temperature and precipitation emerge as strong predictors of invasion strategy, with non-native species invading successfully when they are similar to the native community in cold or dry extremes. Yet, despite the influence of these ecological forces in determining invasion strategy, we find evidence that these patterns can be obscured by human activity, with lower ecological signal in areas with higher proximity to shipping ports. Our global perspective of non-native tree invasion highlights that human drivers influence non-native tree presence, and that native phylogenetic and functional diversity have a critical role in the establishment and spread of subsequent invasions.