Answer to Question #262622 in Ecology for merewalesi

Question

To what extent is biotic invasion and native species loss creating ecosystems with altered properties?

Answer 1

In addition to affecting linkages between aboveground and belowground organisms and processes, invasive plants can also modify ecosystems through altering abiotic processes, like hydrology and disturbance regime (Levine et al. In forested ecosystems, these effects are most obvious in relation to fire