Dr Wayne Dawson's Outputs (7)

Role of diversification rates and evolutionary history as a driver of plant naturalization success (2020)
Journal Article
Lenzner, B., Magallón, S., Dawson, W., Kreft, H., König, C., Pergl, J., …Essl, F. (2021). Role of diversification rates and evolutionary history as a driver of plant naturalization success. New Phytologist, 229(5), 2998 - 3008. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17014

Human introductions of species beyond their natural ranges and subsequent establishment are defining features of global environmental change. However, naturalized plants are not uniformly distributed across phylogenetic lineages, with some families c... Read More about Role of diversification rates and evolutionary history as a driver of plant naturalization success.

Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050 (2020)
Journal Article
Seebens, H., Bacher, S., Blackburn, T. M., Capinha, C., Dawson, W., Dullinger, S., …Essl, F. (2021). Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050. Global Change Biology, 27(5), 970-982. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15333

Biological invasions have steadily increased over recent centuries. However, we still lack a clear expectation about future trends in alien species numbers. In particular, we do not know whether alien species will continue to accumulate in regional f... Read More about Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050.

Source pools and disharmony of the world's island floras (2020)
Journal Article
König, C., Weigelt, P., Taylor, A., Stein, A., Dawson, W., Essl, F., …Kreft, H. (2020). Source pools and disharmony of the world's island floras. Ecography, 44(1), 44-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05174

Island disharmony refers to the biased representation of higher taxa on islands compared to their mainland source regions and represents a central concept in island biology. Here, we develop a generalizable framework for approximating these source re... Read More about Source pools and disharmony of the world's island floras.

Scientists' warning on invasive alien species (2020)
Journal Article
Pyšek, P., Hulme, P. E., Simberloff, D., Bacher, S., Blackburn, T. M., Carlton, J. T., …Richardson, D. M. (2020). Scientists' warning on invasive alien species. Biological Reviews, 95(6), 1511-1534. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12627

Biological invasions are a global consequence of an increasingly connected world and the rise in human population size. The numbers of invasive alien species – the subset of alien species that spread widely in areas where they are not native, affecti... Read More about Scientists' warning on invasive alien species.

Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success (2020)
Journal Article
van Kleunen, M., Xu, X., Yang, Q., Maurel, N., Zhang, Z., Dawson, W., …Fristoe, T. S. (2020). Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 3201. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16982-3

Humans cultivate thousands of economic plants (i.e. plants with economic value) outside their native ranges. To analyze how this contributes to naturalization success, we combine global databases on economic uses and naturalization success of the wor... Read More about Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success.

Towards Unraveling Macroecological Patterns in Rhizosphere Microbiomes (2020)
Journal Article
Brunel, C., Pouteau, R., Dawson, W., Pester, M., Ramirez, K. S., & van Kleunen, M. (2020). Towards Unraveling Macroecological Patterns in Rhizosphere Microbiomes. Trends in Plant Science, 25(10), 1017-1029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2020.04.015

The processes shaping rhizosphere microbial communities are currently unclear because of both a lack of knowledge about biogeographical patterns and the disconnection between plant and microbial scales.

Sequence databases have now collected a suff... Read More about Towards Unraveling Macroecological Patterns in Rhizosphere Microbiomes.

Invasive non‐native species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in the Antarctic Peninsula region (2020)
Journal Article
Hughes, K. A., Pescott, O. L., Peyton, J., Adriaens, T., Cottier‐Cook, E. J., Key, G., …Roy, H. E. (2020). Invasive non‐native species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Global Change Biology, 26(4), 2702-2716. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14938

The Antarctic is considered to be a pristine environment relative to other regions of the Earth, but it is increasingly vulnerable to invasions by marine, freshwater and terrestrial non‐native species. The Antarctic Peninsula region (APR), which enco... Read More about Invasive non‐native species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in the Antarctic Peninsula region.