Influences of environment, human activity, and climate on the invasion of Ageratina adenophora (Spreng.) in Southwest China

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Plant Biology

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Study area

Field data

Predictor variables

Statistical analysis

Results

Effects of environment, human activity and climatic factors on the A. adenophora abundance

Relative contributions of predictor variables to influence the A. adenophora abundance

The variation partitioning in the A. adenophora abundance

Discussion

Effects of environment variables on the invasive alien plant

Effects of human activity disturbance on the invasive alien plant

Effects of climate variables on the invasive alien plant

Conclusion

Supplemental Information

Raw data and code

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14902/supp-1

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Xiaojuan Zhang conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Guoyan Wang conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Peihao Peng conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Yongxiu Zhou performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Zhuo Chen analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Yu Feng analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Yanru Wang performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Songlin Shi conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Jingji Li conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw measurements are available as a Supplementary File.

Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31860123, 31560153), Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA26010101), the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) program (2019QZKK0301). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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