TY  - JOUR
A1  - Spafford, Ryan D.
A1  - Lortie, Christopher J.
A1  - Butterfield, Bradley J.
T1  - A systematic review of arthropod community diversity in association with invasive plants
T2  - NeoBiota
N2  - Invasive plants represent a significant financial burden for land managers and also have the potential to severely degrade ecosystems. Arthropods interact strongly with plants, relying on them for food, shelter, and as nurseries for their young. For these reasons, the impacts of plant invasions are likely strongly reflected by arthropod community dynamics including diversity and abundances. A systematic review was conducted to ascertain the state of the literature with respect to plant invaders and their associated arthropod communities. We found that the majority of studies did not biogeographically contrast arthropod community dynamics from both the home and away ranges and that studies were typically narrow in scope, focusing only on the herbivore feeding guild, rather than assessing two or more trophic levels. Importantly, relative arthropod richness was significantly reduced on invasive plant species. Phylogenetic differences between the invasive and local plant community as well as the plant functional group impact arthropod diversity patterns. A framework highlighting some interaction mechanisms between multiple arthropod trophic levels and native and invasive plants is discussed and future research directions relating to these interactions and the findings herein are proposed.
KW  - Arthropod
KW  - invasive plant
KW  - multi-trophic interactions
KW  - biogeographic contrast
KW  - phylogenetic differences
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32376
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-323769
IS  - 16
SP  - 81
EP  - 102
ER  -