Non‐Native, Non‐Naturalised Plants Suffer Less Herbivory Than Native Plants Across European Botanical Gardens

• DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13938
• Publication Date: 2024-10-30T13:56:55Z
• Authors: Katy Ivison; Mark van Kleunen; James D. M. Speed; Vibekke Vange; Sonia Pujara; Steffen Boch; Dirk Enters; Quentin Groom; Zdeněk Janovský; Jonathan M. Jeschke; Jasmin Joshi; Annette Kolb; Johannes Kollmann; Tomáš Koubek; Tristan Lemke; Diethart Matthies; Jana Raabová; Katja Tielbörger; Wayne Dawson
• Keywords: Native plant

ABSTRACT Aim The enemy release hypothesis states that the invasion success of non‐native species is partly due to their escape from natural enemies, e.g., herbivores. Large‐scale studies herbivory using multiple across sites are needed test generality in plants. Location Europe. Methods We carried out leaf‐herbivory surveys 2007 2021 15 botanical gardens ranging latitude 47°N (Switzerland) 63°N (Norway) investigate how levels differed between (i) native and species, (ii) non‐naturalised or naturalised species. Results Overall, we found were lower on than In addition, plants suffered less natives showed similar Main Conclusions find broad support for plant compared natives. However, stronger reduction suggests herbivore may be transient pronounced have become abundant integrated into resident communities. This has implications management plants, which performing well ranges despite suffering comparable