Invasion Success by Plant Breeding: Evolutionary Changes as a Critical Factor for the Invasion of the Ornamental Plant Mahonia aquifolium - Softcover

Ross, Christel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3834807923 ISBN 13: 9783834807922

Verlag: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, 2009

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Invasive species are a major threat to global biodiversity and cause significant economic costs. Studying biological invasions is both essential for preventing future invasions and is also useful in order to understand basic ecological processes. Christel Ross investigates whether evolutionary changes by plant breeding are a relevant factor for the invasion success of Mahonia aquifolium in Germany. Her findings show that invasive populations differ from native populations in quantitative-genetic traits and molecular markers, whereas their genetic diversity is similar. She postulates that these evolutionary changes are rather a result of plant breeding, which includes inter-specific hybridization, than the result of genetic bottleneck of the releases from specialist herbivores.

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Dr. Christel Anne Ross completed her doctoral thesis at the Department of Community Ecology at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Halle, Germany. She now works as a junior editor in a specialist publishing house.

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Invasive species are a major threat to global biodiversity and cause significant economic costs. Studying biological invasions is both essential for preventing future invasions and is also useful in order to understand basic ecological processes.

Christel Ross investigates whether evolutionary changes by plant breeding are a relevant factor for the invasion success of Mahonia aquifolium in Germany. Her findings show that invasive populations differ from native populations in quantitative-genetic traits and molecular markers, whereas their genetic diversity is similar. She postulates that these evolutionary changes are rather a result of plant breeding, which includes interspecific hybridisation, than the result of a genetic bottleneck or the releases from specialist herbivores.

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• Verlag: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3834807923
• ISBN 13: 9783834807922
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 124
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