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NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
卷 7, 期 8, 页码 577-580出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE3337
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- Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy) within ACE-SAP project
- Kone Foundation
Climate change is expected to trigger an upward expansion of plants in mountain regions(1,2) and, although there is strong evidence that many native species have already shifted their distributions to higher elevations(1,3-6), little is known regarding how fast non-native species might respond to climate change. By analysing 131,394 occurrence records of 1,334 plant species collected over 20 years in the European Alps, we found that non-natives are spreading upwards approximately twice as fast as natives. Whereas the spread of natives was enhanced by traits favouring longer dispersal distances, this was not the case for non-natives. This was due to the non-native species pool already being strongly biased towards species that had traits facilitating spread. A large proportion of native and non-native species seemed to be able to spread upwards faster than the current velocity of climate change. In particular, long-distance dispersal events and proximity to roads proved to be key drivers for the observed rapid spread. Our findings highlight that invasionsby non-native species intonative alpine communities are a potentially significant additional pressure on these vulnerable ecosystems that are already likely to suffer dramatic vegetation changes with ongoing warming and increasing human activity in mountain regions.
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