文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Eradicating invasive Spartina alterniflora with alien Sonneratia apetala and its implications for invasion controls

作者：Chen, Huai[1,3,4] Liao, Baowen[2] Liu, Bin'er[2] Peng, Changhui[1,5] Zhang, Yao[1,6] Guan, Wei[2] Zhu, Qiu'an[1] Yang, Gang[1]

第一作者：Chen, Huai

通信作者：Chen, H[1]

机构：[1]Northwest A&F Univ, Coll Forestry, State Key Lab Soil Eros & Dryland Farming, Yangling 712100, Peoples R China;[2]Chinese Acad Forestry, Res Inst Trop Forestry, Guangzhou 510520, Guangdong, Peoples R China;[3]Chinese Acad Sci, Chengdu Inst Biol, Key Lab Mt Ecol Restorat & Bioresource Utilizat, Chengdu 610041, Peoples R China;[4]Chinese Acad Sci, Chengdu Inst Biol, Ecol Restorat Biodivers Conservat Key Lab Sichuan, Chengdu 610041, Peoples R China;[5]Univ Quebec Montreal UQAM, Inst Environm Sci, Montreal, PQ H2X 3Y7, Canada;[6]Univ Oklahoma, Ctr Spatial Anal, Dept Microbiol & Plant Biol, Norman, OK 73019 USA

年份：2014

卷号：73

起止页码：367-372

外文期刊名：ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

收录：;WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000347018400048)】；

基金：This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41176084, 40876062) 100 Talents Program of The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-12-0477), and China's QianRen program. The authors give special thanks to Ms. Wan Xiong for her editing and valuable comments on the manuscript.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Coastal ecosystems; Biocontrol; Biodiversity; Mangroves; Biological invasions

摘要：The smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) has invaded coastal areas throughout the world, including China, in the past decades. Scientists of China and other countries are trying all means to control its invasion, including physical removal, chemicals, and biological control by herbivores. The present research chose a small island (the Qi'ao Island) to study biocontrol of S.alterniflora with mangroves. In 1999, we began to introduce fast-growing mangroves (mainly an alien species, Sonneratia apetala) to control S. alterniflora invasion. In 2011, we eventually eradicated S. alterniflora (only 0.63 ha remained for experimental purpose) through expanding mangroves up to 300 ha. The dozen-year monitoring showed that S. apetala did not invade in native mangroves. The isolated island in the present study makes an experiment platform for scientists to find a strategy to check one invasive plant with another alien plant but not introducing new invasions. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.