<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Paper presents a systematic global review of <italic>Acer negundo</italic>, <italic>Fraxinus pennsylvanica</italic>, <italic>Ailanthus altissima</italic>, <italic>Robinia pseudoacacia</italic> invasions focusing on the Scopus and Web of Science databases. We examined the data on papers, study areas, habitat studied, topic discussed. We hypothesized that these species were studied evenly throughout their invaded ranges and, as such, indexed by international databases. We asked whether four selected species are presented evenly in publications related to their invaded ranges, and whether both selected databases cover well a content of these papers. We found 48 papers for <italic>A. negundo</italic>, 14 – for <italic>F. pennsylvanica</italic>, 83 – for <italic>A. altissima</italic>, 96 – for <italic>R. pseudoacacia</italic>. A high percentage of the studies were conducted in Central Europe and USA (for <italic>A. altissima</italic>), while Eastern Europe, Russia, Western United States were poorly represented. Most studies were conducted in forests, and focused on impacts or distribution of aliens in invaded range, and their control and management. We encountered habitat types invaded by trees, factors influencing tree invasions, consequences of invaders’ impact on ecosystems, counteracting measures. We concluded that the use only Web of Science and Scopus is not sufficient to obtain the complete data about the invasion biology.</p></abstract>

Paper presents a systematic global review of Acer negundo, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Ailanthus altissima, Robinia pseudoacacia invasions focusing on the Scopus and Web of Science databases. We examined the data on papers, study areas, habitat studied, topic discussed. We hypothesized that these species were studied evenly throughout their invaded ranges and, as such, indexed by international databases. We asked whether four selected species are presented evenly in publications related to their invaded ranges, and whether both selected databases cover well a content of these papers. We found 48 papers for A. negundo, 14 – for F. pennsylvanica, 83 – for A. altissima, 96 – for R. pseudoacacia. A high percentage of the studies were conducted in Central Europe and USA (for A. altissima), while Eastern Europe, Russia, Western United States were poorly represented. Most studies were conducted in forests, and focused on impacts or distribution of aliens in invaded range, and their control and management. We encountered habitat types invaded by trees, factors influencing tree invasions, consequences of invaders’ impact on ecosystems, counteracting measures. We concluded that the use only Web of Science and Scopus is not sufficient to obtain the complete data about the invasion biology.

A global systematic review of publications concerning the invasion biology of four tree species

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Paper presents a systematic global review of Acer negundo, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Ailanthus altissima, Robinia pseudoacacia invasions focusing on the Scopus...

A global systematic review of publications concerning the invasion biology of four tree species

Published Online: Jul 20, 2019

Page range: 233 - 270

Received: Jan 04, 2019

Accepted: May 10, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hacq-2019-0005

Keywords
Alien plant species, Biological invasion,

© 2019 Anatoliy Khapugin, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

A global systematic review of publications concerning the invasion biology of four tree species

Published Online: Jul 20, 2019

Page range: 233 - 270

Received: Jan 04, 2019

Accepted: May 10, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hacq-2019-0005

KeywordsAlien plant species, Biological invasion,

© 2019 Anatoliy Khapugin, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Alien plant species, Biological invasion,