Publications by authors named "Jan Clavel"
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- Climate change is causing plant species in mountains worldwide to shift their elevational ranges, complicating efforts to monitor these changes due to varying sampling methods.
- The Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) developed a standardized protocol to assess native and non-native plant distributions along elevation gradients over time, using surveys conducted every five years at specific sites.
- Initial results show unique elevational patterns for native plant richness and a global decline in non-native species, highlighting disturbed areas like road edges as hotspots for plant invasions, emphasizing the need for more global studies to guide conservation efforts.
Plant associated mutualists can mediate invasion success by affecting the ecological niche of nonnative plant species. Anthropogenic disturbance is also key in facilitating invasion success through changes in biotic and abiotic conditions, but the combined effect of these two factors in natural environments is understudied. To better understand this interaction, we investigated how disturbance and its interaction with mycorrhizas could impact range dynamics of nonnative plant species in the mountains of Norway.
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