Invasion success on European coastal dunes

Many invasive plants are threatening the already highly vulnerable habitats of coastal dunes in Europe. Setting priority target species to control is mandatory for an effective planning invasion management strategies at European level. This can be possible after identifying that currently have greater success, consideration their ecological traits and origin. We quantified three main components success extra-European alien found on dunes: local abundance, regional distribution niche breadth, related them life forms origins. form was a better predictor success. In particular, geophytes therophytes were with greatest Quite surprisingly, from Africa appeared as group slightly higher mean although this result no statistically significant. also highlighted deserving special attention. Among these, Xanthium orientale , Erigeron canadensis Oenothera gr. biennis showed widest levels breadth distribution, had overall but other high one