Université de Fribourg

Determinants of plant establishment success in a multispecies introduction experiment with native and alien species

Kempel, Anne ; Chrobock, Thomas ; Fischer, Markus ; Rohr, Rudolf Philippe ; Kleunen, Mark van

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013, vol. 110, no. 31, p. 12727–12732

Determinants of plant establishment and invasion are a key issue in ecology and evolution. Although establishment success varies substantially among species, the importance of species traits and extrinsic factors as determinants of establishment in existing communities has remained difficult to prove in observational studies because they can be confounded and mask each other. Therefore, we...