Identifying Critical Thresholds in the Impacts of Invasive Alien Plants and Dune Paths on Native Coastal Dune Vegetation

• Published in: Land (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 1; p. 135
• Main Authors: de Francesco, Maria Carla, Tozzi, Francesco Pio, Buffa, Gabriella, Fantinato, Edy, Innangi, Michele, Stanisci, Angela
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.01.2023
• Subjects: Abundance; Adriatic coast; Anthropogenic factors; Biodiversity; Coasts; Community composition; Conservation status; Diagnostic systems; Dunes; Ecological effects; ecological guilds; Ecosystems; Flowers & plants; Guilds; Habitats; Heterogeneity; Human influences; invasive alien plants; Invasive plants; Oenothera stucchii; Plant communities; Plant reproduction; Plants (botany); Population decline; Random sampling; Regression models; Seeds; shifting dunes; Species classification; Statistical sampling; Thresholds; transition dunes; Vegetation

Invasive alien plants (IAP) pose a major threat to biodiversity and have a negative impact on the integrity and conservation status of plant communities. Mediterranean dunes are widely exposed to IAP, due to their environmental heterogeneity and the anthropogenic pressures to which they are subjecte...