A global synthesis of naturalised and invasive plants in aquatic habitats

Kortz, Alessandra; Hejda, Martin; Čuda, Jan; Pattison, Zarah; Brůna, Josef; Novoa, Ana; Pergl, Jan; Pipek, Pavel; Štajerov&#225;, Kateřina; Anastasiu, Paulina; Ansong, Michael; Arianoutsou, Margarita; Barcelona, Julie F; Bhatta, Suneeta; Bordbar, Farzaneh; Borokini, Israel; Celesti-Grapow, Laura; Chac&#243;n-Madrigal, Eduardo; Dawson, Wayne; Dorjee; Essl, Franz; Ferrufino-Acosta, Lilian; Figueiredo, Estrela; Flores, Rodolfo; Fried, Guillaume; Fuentes Parada, Nicol E.; Gal&#225;n, Pablo; Gilli, Christian; Glaser, Michael; Grande Allende, Jos&#233; Ram&#243;n.; Gudžinskas, Zigmantas; Holmes, Rachael; Hulme, Philip; Inderjit,; Kang, Eun Su; Kreft, Holger; Krix, Dan W.; K&#252;hn, Ingolf; Lopez, Omar; Macvean, Analu; Makhkamov, Trobjon; Marchante, Elizabete; Marchante, H&#233;lia; Maroyi, Alfred; Meddour, Rachid; Meerts, Pierre J.; Mukul, Sharif A.; Murray, Brad; Murray, Megan L.; Nickrent, Daniel; Norman, Prince E.; Omer, Ali; Patzelt, Annette; Pelser, Pieter B; Pino, Joan; Riera, Marc; Rodr&#237;guez Delcid, Dagoberto; Rojas-Sandoval, Julissa; Rotch&#233;s-Ribalta, Roser; Ruiz-Cruz, Jos&#233; Yader Sageth; Senator, Stepan; Sennikov, Alexander; Shrestha, Bharat Babu; Smith, Gideon; Sohrabi, Sima; Tokarska-Guzik, Barbara; Kleunen, Mark van,; Vil&#224;, Montserrat; Wagner, Viktoria; Weigelt, Patrick; Winter, Marten; Yazlık, Ayşe; Zykova, Elena; Pyšek, Petr

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Article: A global synthesis of naturalised and invasive plants in aquatic habitats

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A global synthesis of naturalised and invasive plants in aquatic habitats

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Kortz, Alessandra Hejda, Martin Čuda, Jan Pattison, Zarah Brůna, Josef Novoa, Ana Pergl, Jan Pipek, Pavel Štajerová, Kateřina Anastasiu, Paulina Ansong, Michael Arianoutsou, Margarita Barcelona, Julie F Bhatta, Suneeta Bordbar, Farzaneh Borokini, Israel Celesti-Grapow, Laura Chacón-Madrigal, Dawson, Wayne Dorjee Essl, Franz Ferrufino-Acosta, Lilian Figueiredo, Estrela Flores, Rodolfo Fried, Guillaume Fuentes Parada, Nicol E. Galán, Pablo Gilli, Christian Glaser, Michael Grande Gudžinskas, Zigmantas Holmes, Rachael Hulme, Philip Inderjit, Kang, Eun Su Kreft, Holger Krix, Dan W. Kühn, Ingolf Lopez, Omar Macvean, Analu Makhkamov, Trobjon Marchante, Elizabete Marchante, Hélia Maroyi, Alfred Meddour, Rachid Meerts, Pierre J. Mukul, Sharif A. Murray, Brad Murray, Megan L. Nickrent, Daniel Norman, Prince E. Omer, Ali Patzelt, Annette Pelser, Pieter B Pino, Joan Riera, Marc Rodríguez Rojas-Sandoval, Julissa Rotchés-Ribalta, Roser Ruiz-Cruz, Senator, Stepan Sennikov, Alexander Shrestha, Bharat Babu Smith, Gideon Sohrabi, Sima Tokarska-Guzik, Barbara Kleunen, Mark van, Vilà, Montserrat Wagner, Viktoria Weigelt, Patrick Winter, Marten Yazlık, Ayşe Zykova, Elena Pyšek, Petr

Eduardo

Allende, José Ramón.

1963-

Delcid, Dagoberto

José Yader Sageth

1973-

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Article

Date of Publication

2025-10-7

Original Publication

NeoBiota : advancing research on alien species and biological invasions

Volume

102

Pages

473--494

Subjects

Macrophyte invasion , plant invasion patterns , SynHab database

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Pensoft Publishers

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English

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Sophia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.102.151156

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Global databases have contributed to our understanding of alien, naturalised and invasive plant species distributions. Still, the role of species invasions in habitats, specifically in aquatic habitats, remains underexplored at the global scale. Accordingly, a comprehensive global synthesis of the status of plant invasions in aquatic habitats has been missing. Here, we focus on macroecological patterns of naturalised non-invasive and invasive plants in aquatic habitats using the recently built SynHab database. Amongst all the plant records compiled in SynHab, 592 are assigned to aquatic habitats, of which 183 are unique plant taxa (further termed ‘species’) belonging to 49 families. Of the total number of records, 462 refer to taxa with naturalised non-invasive occurrences and 130 to invasive occurrences. The species pool analysed here refers to 78 regions distributed across all botanical continents as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. The number of naturalised non-invasive aquatic species is similar across different continents and biomes, but Tropical Asia had more and the Mediterranean zonobiome had fewer invasive species than expected. Tropical Asia, Temperate Asia and Africa have the highest proportions of naturalised species that have become invasive, while across continents, invasive proportions were highest for tropical and subtropical zonobiomes. New Zealand, Italy and California contained disproportionately more naturalised species than expected, given the area covered by aquatic habitat in those regions, whereas South Sudan, Papua New Guinea and Kyrgyzstan had disproportionately fewer species. In pairwise dissimilarity comparisons, all continents had distinct species compositions (from 0.73 to 0.92 of the Jaccard dissimilarity index) and so did zonobiomes (0.69 to 1.00). The high proportion of invasive species in Tropical Asia in comparison with terrestrial invasions in this region, indicates a greater susceptibility of warmer regions to aquatic plant invasions. This may be exacerbated by further naturalisations in the future, as data from temperate regions suggest a larger pool of available species.