Sentence examples for invasive legacy from inspiring English sources
A new hybrid species of tumbleweed is living up to the invasive legacy of its forebears as it spreads rapidly throughout California, Science News reports.
Although the belowground legacies of invasive nitrogen (N -fixing plaN -fixingell documented (e.g. Vitousek et al. 1987; Liao et al. 2008), the implantsce of legarees involving other major soil symbioses is poorly understood (Nuñez and Dickie 2014).
Dickens, Allen, Santiago and Crowley showed that the removal of invasives in grasslands leaves legacy effects by changing soil microbial and nitrogen cycling characteristics that make soils prone to invasion by exotic annuals.
Management of invasive plants may further augment some of these legacies, at least in the short term, for example through large pulses of organic matter inputs or disruption of plant soil feedbacks (e.g. Symstad 2004; Martin et al. 2010).
Such legacy effects may also be pronounced for invasive species, where current shipping intensity (and associated ballast water release and hull fouling) does not reflect past exposure and establishment of invasive species.
In addition, the relatively low representation of invasive species in the seed bank despite high aboveground frequencies suggests a legacy of native species maintaining populations in the seed bank.
Our findings demonstrate that multi-trophic belowground legacies are an important but hitherto largely unconsidered factor in plant community reassembly following invasive plant removal.
Management of invasive trees typically involves removal of trees, but with little or no consideration given to how belowground legacies influence the regeneration of native vegetation, with the notable exception of N-fixing trees (e.g. Heneghan et al. 2006).
