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Since the introduction of agriculture to Central Europe ca. 7,000 years ago, man-accompanying (synanthropic) plants have increasingly expanded in this area. Both native and introduced species were involved, most of them having a ‘general purpose’ genotype which seems to result from the ‘r’ type of selection. At present, permanently established aliens constitute 10–20% of the local floras in Central Europe. In this paper, groups of aliens of various immigration ages and degrees of naturalization are defined and illustrated with case histories. Four stages are distinguished in the process of naturalization of alien plants: (1) introduction of propagules and emergence of first individuals, (2) establishment in heavily disturbed sites, (3) colonization of less disturbed sites, (4) invasion into undisturbed sites, each subsequent stage being more difficult to achieve than the previous one. Consequently, most of the aliens occur only in man-made ruderal and/or segetal plant communities, and very few of them were able to penetrate into undisturbed natural vegetation.
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Kornaś, J. (1990). Plant invasions in Central Europe: historical and ecological aspects. In: di Castri, F., Hansen, A.J., Debussche, M. (eds) Biological Invasions in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 65. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1876-4_2
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