Increased Soil Moisture Aggravated the Competitive Effects of the Invasive Tree Rhus Typhina on the Native Tree Cotinus Coggygria

Overview

Journal BMC Ecol

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Environmental Health

Date 2020 Apr 2

PMID 32228576

Citations 3

Authors

Xiao Guo

Zhen-Wei Xu

Ming-Yan Li

Xiao-Huang Ren

Jian Liu

Wei-Hua Guo

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

Background: Invasive exotic species have caused significant problems, and the effects of extreme precipitation and drought, which might occur more frequently under the global climate change scenarios, on interspecific relationship between invasive and native species remain unclear.

Results: We conducted a greenhouse experiment with three soil water levels (30-40%, 50-60%, and 70-80% of field capacity) and two cultivation treatments (monoculture pots, one seedling of either species and mixture pots, one seedling of each species) to investigate soil water content effects on the relationship between invasive Rhus typhina and native Cotinus coggygria. Rhus typhina had lower height but bigger crown area than C. coggygria in the monoculture treatment. Rhus typhina had higher height, bigger crown area and total biomass than C. coggygria in the mixture treatment. Drought decreased the growth parameters, total chlorophyll concentration, and leaf biomass, but did not change gas exchange and other biomass parameters in R. typhina. The growth parameters, leaf area index, biomass parameters, total chlorophyll concentration, and net photosynthetic rate of C. coggygria decreased under drought conditions. The log response ratio (lnRR), calculated as ln (total biomass of a target plant grown in monoculture/total biomass of a target plant grown in mixed culture), of R. typhina was lower than that of C. coggygria. The lnRR of R. typhina and C. coggygria decreased and increased with increase in soil water content, respectively.

Conclusions: Rhus typhina has greater capacity to relatively stable growth to the drought condition than C. coggygria and has strong competition advantages in the mixture with C. coggygria, especially in the drought condition. Our study will help understand the causes of invasiveness and wide distribution of R. typhina under various moisture conditions and predict its expansion under climate change scenarios.

Citing Articles

Does L. Affect Carbon and Nitrogen Contents, Enzymatic Activities, and Bacterial Communities in Soil Treated with Different Forms of Nitrogen Deposition?.

Liu Y, Du Y, Li Y, Li C, Zhong S, Xu Z Microorganisms. 2024; 12(8).

PMID: 39203466 PMC: 11356382. DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms12081624.

Competition mode and soil nutrient status shape the role of soil microbes in the diversity-invasibility relationship.

Li H, Hu X, Geng X, Xiao B, Miao W, Xu Z Ecol Evol. 2024; 14(5):e11425.

PMID: 38746546 PMC: 11091549. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11425.

Effects of salt stress on interspecific competition between an invasive alien plant and three native species.

Guo X, Ma J, Liu L, Li M, Wang H, Sun Y Front Plant Sci. 2023; 14:1144511.

PMID: 37025129 PMC: 10070839. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1144511.

References

Scharfy D, Funk A, Olde Venterink H, Gusewell S . Invasive forbs differ functionally from native graminoids, but are similar to native forbs. New Phytol. 2010; 189(3):818-828. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03531.x. View

Funk J, Vitousek P . Resource-use efficiency and plant invasion in low-resource systems. Nature. 2007; 446(7139):1079-81. DOI: 10.1038/nature05719. View

Drenovsky R, Khasanova A, James J . Trait convergence and plasticity among native and invasive species in resource-poor environments. Am J Bot. 2012; 99(4):629-39. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1100417. View

Zhang Z, Jiang C, Zhang J, Zhang H, Shi L . Ecophysiological evaluation of the potential invasiveness of Rhus typhina in its non-native habitats. Tree Physiol. 2009; 29(11):1307-16. DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpp065. View

Wang W, Li Z, Li Y . Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers for Cotinus coggygria Scop. (Anacardiaceae) by 454 pyrosequencing. Molecules. 2014; 19(3):3813-9. PMC: 6271902. DOI: 10.3390/molecules19033813. View

Vila M, Gomez A, Maron J . Are alien plants more competitive than their native conspecifics? A test using Hypericum perforatum L. Oecologia. 2003; 137(2):211-5. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1342-0. View

Te Beest M, Elschot K, Olff H, Etienne R . Invasion success in a marginal habitat: an experimental test of competitive ability and drought tolerance in Chromolaena odorata. PLoS One. 2013; 8(8):e68274. PMC: 3731300. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068274. View

Isbell F, Craven D, Connolly J, Loreau M, Schmid B, Beierkuhnlein C . Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes. Nature. 2015; 526(7574):574-7. DOI: 10.1038/nature15374. View

Blackman C, Brodribb T, Jordan G . Leaf hydraulics and drought stress: response, recovery and survivorship in four woody temperate plant species. Plant Cell Environ. 2009; 32(11):1584-95. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.02023.x. View

10.

Ciais P, Reichstein M, Viovy N, Granier A, Ogee J, Allard V . Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003. Nature. 2005; 437(7058):529-33. DOI: 10.1038/nature03972. View

11.

Wang G, Jiang G, Yu S, Li Y, Liu H . Invasion possibility and potential effects of Rhus typhina on Beijing municipality. J Integr Plant Biol. 2008; 50(5):522-30. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2008.00660.x. View

12.

Bradford M, Schumacher H, Catovsky S, Eggers T, Newingtion J, Tordoff G . Impacts of invasive plant species on riparian plant assemblages: interactions with elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide and nitrogen deposition. Oecologia. 2007; 152(4):791-803. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0697-z. View

13.

Wang W, Tian C, Li Y, Li Y . Molecular data and ecological niche modelling reveal the phylogeographic pattern of Cotinus coggygria (Anacardiaceae) in China's warm-temperate zone. Plant Biol (Stuttg). 2014; 16(6):1114-20. DOI: 10.1111/plb.12157. View

14.

Davidson A, Jennions M, Nicotra A . Do invasive species show higher phenotypic plasticity than native species and, if so, is it adaptive? A meta-analysis. Ecol Lett. 2011; 14(4):419-31. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01596.x. View

15.

Dostal P . Plant competitive interactions and invasiveness: searching for the effects of phylogenetic relatedness and origin on competition intensity. Am Nat. 2011; 177(5):655-67. DOI: 10.1086/659060. View

16.

McDowell N, Pockman W, Allen C, Breshears D, Cobb N, Kolb T . Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?. New Phytol. 2008; 178(4):719-739. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02436.x. View

17.

van Kleunen M, Weber E, Fischer M . A meta-analysis of trait differences between invasive and non-invasive plant species. Ecol Lett. 2009; 13(2):235-45. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01418.x. View

18.

P Duncan R, Williams P . Ecology: Darwin's naturalization hypothesis challenged. Nature. 2002; 417(6889):608-9. DOI: 10.1038/417608a. View

19.

Hommel R, Siegwolf R, Zavadlav S, Arend M, Schaub M, Galiano L . Impact of interspecific competition and drought on the allocation of new assimilates in trees. Plant Biol (Stuttg). 2016; 18(5):785-96. DOI: 10.1111/plb.12461. View

20.

Vila M, Espinar J, Hejda M, Hulme P, Jarosik V, Maron J . Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analysis of their effects on species, communities and ecosystems. Ecol Lett. 2011; 14(7):702-8. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01628.x. View