<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Raf Aerts</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Michael Ewald</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Manuel Nicolas</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jérôme Piat</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sandra Skowronek</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jonathan Lenoir</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tarek Hattab</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carol X Garzón-López</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hannes Feilhauer</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sebastian Schmidtlein</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Duccio Rocchini</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Guillaume Decocq</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ben Somers</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ruben Van De Kerchove</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Karolien Denef</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Olivier Honnay</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Invasion by the Alien Tree Alters Ecosystem Functions in a Temperate Deciduous Forest</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Front Plant Sci</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">American black cherry</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">biogeochemical cycles</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">biological invasion</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">canopy foliar nutrients</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">exotic species</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">heterotrophic respiration</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">invasive species</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">litter</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Alien invasive species can affect large areas, often with wide-ranging impacts on ecosystem structure, function, and services.is a widespread invader of European temperate forests, where it tends to form homogeneous stands and limits recruitment of indigenous trees. We hypotesized that invasion bywould be reflected in the nutrient contents of the native species&amp;#39; leaves and in the respiration of invaded plots as efficient resource uptake and changes in nutrient cycling byprobably underly its aggressive invasiveness. We combined data from 48 field plots in the forest of Compi&amp;egrave;gne, France, and data from an experiment using 96 microcosms derived from those field plots. We used general linear models to separate effects of invasion byon heterotrophic soil and litter respiration rates and on canopy foliar nutrient content from effects of soil chemical properties, litter quantity, litter species composition, and tree species composition. In invaded stands, average respiration rates were 5.6% higher for soil (without litter) and 32% higher for soil and litter combined. Compared to indigenous tree species,exhibited higher foliar N (+24.0%), foliar P (+50.7%), and lower foliar C:N (-22.4%) and N:P (-10.1%) ratios.affected foliar nutrient contents of co-occuring indigenous tree species leading to decreased foliar N (-8.7 %) and increased C:N ratio (+9.5%) in, decreased foliar N:P ratio in(-13.5%) and(-11.8%), and increased foliar P in(+12.3%) in invaded vs. uninvaded stands. Our results suggest thatis changing nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon cycles to its own advantage, hereby increasing carbon turnover via labile litter, affecting the relative nutrient contents in the overstory leaves, and potentially altering the photosynthetic capacity of the long-lived indigenous broadleaved species. Uncontrolled invasion of European temperate forests bymay affect the climate change mitigation potential of these forests in the long term, through additive effects on local nutrient cycles.&lt;/p&gt;
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