Authors
Anne Kempel, Patrick Nater, Markus Fischer, Mark Van Kleunen
Publication date
2013/4
Journal
Functional Ecology
Volume
27
Issue
2
Pages
498-508
Description
- Plants interact with many organisms, such as microbes and herbivores, and these interactions are likely to affect the establishment and spread of plants. In the context of plant invasions, mycorrhizal fungi and constitutive and induced resistance of plants against herbivores have received attention independently of each other. However, plants are frequently involved in complex multi‐trophic interactions, which might differ between invasive and non‐invasive alien plants.
- In a multi‐species comparative experiment, we aimed to improve our understanding of plant traits associated with invasiveness. We tested whether eight invasive alien plant species use the mycorrhizal symbiosis in a more beneficial way, and have higher levels of constitutive or induced resistance against two generalist bioassay herbivores, than nine non‐invasive alien species. We further assessed whether the presence of mycorrhizal fungi …
Scholar articles
A Kempel, P Nater, M Fischer, M van Kleunen - Functional Ecology, 2013