Restraints on Mikania micrantha by Cuscuta campestris facilitates restoration of the disturbed ecosystems

REFERENCES

• Allen , S. E. 1989 . Chemical Analysis of Ecological Materials , Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Publications .
   Google Scholar
• Alpert , P. 2006 . The Advantages and Disadvantages of being Introduced . Biological Invasions , 8 : 1523 – 1534 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Alpert , P. , Bone , E. and Holzapfel , C. 2000 . Invasiveness, Invasibility, and the Role of Environmental Stress in Preventing the Spread of Non-Native Plants . Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics , 3 : 52 – 66 .
   Google Scholar
• Bardgett , R. D. , Bowman , W. D. , Kaufmann , R. and Schmidt , S. K. 2005 . A Temporal Approach to Linking Above-ground and Below-ground Ecology . Trends in Ecology and Evolution , 20 : 634 – 641 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blank , R. R. and Young , J. A. 2004 . Influence of Three Weed Species on Soil Nutrient Dynamics . Soil Science , 169 : 385 – 397 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blumenthal , D. M. 2006 . Interactions between Resource Availability and Enemy Release in Plant Invasion . Ecology Letters , 9 : 887 – 895 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bremner , J. M. and Mulvaney , C. S. 1982 . “ Nitrogen-Total ” . In Methods of Soil Analysis , Edited by: Page , A. L. 595 – 624 . Madison, Wisconsin : America Society of Agronomy . Part 2
   Google Scholar
• Brooker , R. W. 2006 . Plant-Plant Interactions and Environmental Change . New Phytologist , 171 : 271 – 284 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Callaway , R. M. 1995 . Positive Interactions among Plants . Botanical Review , 61 : 306 – 349 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cassidy , T. M. , Fownes , J. H. and Harrington , R. A. 2004 . Nitrogen Limits an Invasive Perennial Shrub in Forest Understory . Biological Invasions , 6 : 113 – 121 .
   Google Scholar
• Daehler , C. C. 2003 . Performance Comparisons of Co-occurring Native and Alien Invasive Plants: Implications for Conservation and Restoration . Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics , 34 : 183 – 211 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Davis , M. A. , Grime , J. P. and Thompson , K. 2000 . Fluctuating Resources in Plant Communities: A General Theory of Invasibility . Journal of Ecology , 88 : 528 – 534 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Doak , D. F. , Bigger , D. , Harding , E. K. , Marvier , M. A. , O'Malley , R. E. and Thomson , D. 1998 . The Statistical Inevitability of Stability-Diversity Relationships in Community Ecology . American Naturalist , 151 : 264 – 276 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ehrenfeld , J. G. 2003 . Effects of Exotic Plant Invasions on Soil Nutrient Cycling Processes . Ecosystems , 6 : 503 – 523 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Funk , J. L. and Vitousek , P. M. 2007 . Resource-Use Efficiency and Plant Invasion in Low-Resource Systems . Nature , 446 : 1079 – 1081 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harris , M. R. and Facelli , J. M. 2003 . Competition and Resource Availability in an Annual Plant Community Dominated by an Invasive Species, Carrichtera annua, in South Australia . Plant Ecology , 167 : 19 – 29 .
   Google Scholar
• Hector , A. , Dobson , K. , Minns , A. , Bazeley-White , E. and Lawton , J. H. 2001 . Community Diversity and Invasion Resistance: An Experimental Test in a Grassland Ecosystem and a Review of Comparable Studies . Ecological Research , 16 : 819 – 831 .
   Google Scholar
• Henderson , S. , Dawson , T. P. and Whittaker , R. J. 2006 . Progress in Invasive Plants Research . Progress in Physical Geography , 30 : 25 – 46 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Herron , P. M. , Martine , C. T. , Latimer , A. M. and Leicht-Young , S. A. 2007 . Invasive Plants and Their Ecological Strategies: Prediction and Explanation of Woody Plant Invasion in New England . Diversity and Distributions , 13 : 633 – 644 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hierro , J. L. , Villarreal , D. , Eren , O. , Graham , J. M. and Callaway , R. M. 2006 . Disturbance Facilitates Invasion: The Effects Are Stronger Abroad Than at Home . American Naturalist , 168 : 144 – 156 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kolb , A. , Alpert , P. , Enters , D. and Holzapfel , C. 2002 . Patterns of Invasion within a Grassland Community . Journal of Ecology , 90 : 871 – 881 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Koskela , T. , Puustinen , S. , Salonen , V. and Mutikainen , P. 2002 . Resistance and Tolerance in a Host Plant-Holoparasitic Plant Interaction: Genetic Variation and Costs . Evolution , 56 : 899 – 908 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Lake , J. C. and Leishman , M. R. 2004 . Invasion Success of Exotic in Natural Ecosystems: The Role of Disturbance, Plant Attributes and Freedom from Herbivores . Biological Conservation , 117 : 215 – 226 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Li , M. G. , Zhang , W. Y. and Liao , W. B. 2000 . The History and Status of the Study on Mikania micrantha . Ecological science , 19 : 41 – 45 .
   Google Scholar
• Li , W. H. , Zhang , C. B. , Jiang , H. B. , Xin , G. R. and Yang , Z. Y. 2006 . Changes in Soil Microbial Community Associated with Invasion of the Exotic Weed, Mikania micrantha H.B.K . Plant and Soil , 281 : 309 – 324 .
   Google Scholar
• Liu , J. , Dong , M. , Miao , S. L. , Li , Z. Y. , Song , M. H. and Wang , R. Q. 2006 . Invasive Alien Plants in China: Role of Clonality and Geographical Origin . Biological Invasions , 8 : 1461 – 1470 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lowe , S. , Browne , M. , Boudjelas , S. and Poorter , M. D. 2001 . 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species. A Selection from the Global Invasive Species Database , Auckland, , New Zealand : IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISG) .
   Google Scholar
• Mack , M. C. and D'Antonio , C. M. 2003 . Exotic Grasses Alter Controls over Soil Nitrogen Dynamics in a Hawaiian Woodland . Ecological Applications , 13 : 154 – 166 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mack , R. N. , Simberloff , D. , Lonsdale , W. M. , Evans , H. , Clout , M. and Bazzaz , F. A. 2000 . Biotic Invasions: Causes, Epidemiology, Global Consequences, and Control . Ecological Applications , 10 : 689 – 710 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Messing , R. H. and Wright , M. G. 2006 . Biological Control of Invasive Species: Solution or Pollution? . Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment , 4 : 132 – 140 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Michelsen , A. , Graglia , E. , Schmidt , I. K. , Jonasson , S. , Sleep , D. and Quarmby , C. 1999 . Differential Responses of Grass and a Dwarf Shrub to Long-Term Changes in Soil Microbial Biomass C, N and P, Following Factorial Addition of NPK Fertilizer, Fungicide and Labile Carbon to a Heath . New Phytologist , 143 : 523 – 538 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nelson , D. W. and Sommers , L. E. 1982 . “ Total Carbon, Organic Carbon, and Organic Matter ” . In Methods of Soil Analysis , Edited by: Page , A. L. 539 – 580 . Madison, Wisconsin : America Society of Agronomy . Part 2
   Google Scholar
• Olsen , S. R. and Sommers , L. E. 1982 . “ Phosphorus ” . In Methods of Soil Analysis , Edited by: Page , A. L. 403 – 430 . Madison, Wisconsin : America Society of Agronomy . Part 2
   Google Scholar
• Parker , J. D. , Burkepile , D. E. and Hay , M. E. 2006 . Opposing Effects of Native and Exotic Herbivores on Plant Invasions . Science , 311 : 1459 – 1461 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Press , M. C. and Phoenix , G. K. 2005 . Impacts of Parasitic Plants on Natural Communities . New Phytologist , 166 : 737 – 751 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pugnaire , F. I. , Armas , C. and Valladares , F. 2004 . Soil as a Mediator in Plant-Plant Interactions in a Semi-Arid Community . Journal of Vegetation Science , 15 : 85 – 92 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Richardson , D. M. , Holmes , P. M. , Esler , K. J. , Galatowitsch , S. M. , Stromberg , J. C. , Kirkman , S. P. , Pysek , P. and Hobbs , R. J. 2007 . Riparian Vegetation: Degradation, Alien Plant Invasions, and Restoration Prospects . Diversity and Distributions , 13 : 126 – 139 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rickey , M. A. and Anderson , R. C. 2004 . Effects of Nitrogen Addition on the Invasive Grass Phragmites australis and a Native Competitor Spartina pectinata . Journal of Applied Ecology , 41 : 888 – 896 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Seabloom , E. W. , Harpole , W. S. , Reichman , O. J. and Tilman , D. 2003 . Invasion, Competitive Dominance, and Resource Use by Exotic and Native California Grassland Species . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 100 : 13384 – 13389 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shen , H. , Ye , W. H. , Hong , L. , Cao , H. L. and Wang , Z. M. 2005 . Influence of the Obligate Parasite Cuscuta campestris on Growth and Biomass Allocation of Its Host Mikania micrantha . Journal of Experimental Botany , 56 : 1277 – 1284 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Simmons , M. T. 2005 . Bullying the Bullies: The Selective Control of an Exotic, Invasive Annual (Rapistrum rugosum) by Oversowing with a Competitive Native Species (Gaillardia pulchella . Restoration Ecology , 13 : 609 – 615 .
   Google Scholar
• Suding , K. N. , Gross , K. L. and Houseman , G. R. 2004a . Alternative States and Positive Feedbacks in Restoration Ecology . Trends in Ecology and Evolution , 19 : 46 – 53 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Suding , K. N. , LeJeune , K. D. and Seastedt , T. R. 2004b . Competitive Impacts and Responses of an Invasive Weed: Dependencies on Nitrogen and Phosphorus Availability . Oecologia , 141 : 526 – 535 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Swary , P. S. and Ramakrishnan , P. S. 1987 . Effect of Fire on Population Dynamics of Mikania micrantha H.B.K. During Early Succession after Slash-and-Burn Agriculture in Northeast India . Weed Research , 27 : 397 – 404 .
   Google Scholar
• Wang , B. S. , Wang , Y. J. , Liao , W. B. , Zan , Q. J. , Li , M. G. , Peng , S. L. , Han , A. C. , Zhang , W. Y. and Chen , D. P. 2004 . The Invasion Ecology and Management of Alien Weed Mikania micrantha H.B.K. , Beijing : Science Press .
   Google Scholar
• Weis , A. E. and Hochberg , M. E. 2000 . The Diverse Effects of Intraspecific Competition on the Selective Advantage to Resistance: A Model and Its Predictions . American Naturalist , 156 : 276 – 292 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Woitke , M. and Dietz , H. 2002 . Shifts in Dominance of Native and Invasive Plants in Experimental Patches of Vegetation . Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics , 5 : 165 – 184 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yu , H. , He , W. M. , Liu , J. , Miao , S. L. and Dong , M. 2009 . Native Cuscuta campestris Restrains Exotic Mikania micrantha and Enhances Soil Resources Beneficial to Natives in the Invaded Communities . Biological Invasions , 11 : 835 – 844 .
   Google Scholar
• Zan , Q. J. , Wang , Y. J. , Liang , Q. Y. , Wang , B. S. and Liao , W. B. 2001 . Effectiveness of Four Herbicides on the Harmful Weeds Mikania micrantha . Ecological Science , 20 : 32 – 36 .
   Google Scholar