Scale‐dependent variation in leaf functional traits clarifies mechanisms of invasion

Ecography, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 1, 2025

Comparing the functional traits of co‐occurring native and invasive plant species can offer insight regarding mechanisms invasion. Previous studies have failed to reach a consensus, indicating that extent trait differences between invasives might depend on environmental context spatial grain analysis. Here we evaluate scale‐dependency native–invader comparisons within Hawaiian Archipelago, globally important region high endemicity invasibility. We evaluated (e.g. gas exchange, leaf nutrient concentration, specific area) locally regionally (i.e. across islands) found while are more resource acquisitive at regional scale, highly idiosyncratic localized scales, varying both in direction magnitude islands. Our findings clarify how region‐wide may fail characterize interactions happening local thereby misleading or obscuring underlying

Language: Английский

Past, present, and future of mountain and island systems

Journal of Systematics and Evolution, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 62(2), P. 195 - 200

Published: March 1, 2024

Language: Английский