Expansion of the Invasive Plant Species Reynoutria japonica Houtt in the Upper Bistrița Mountain River Basin with a Calculus on the Productive Potential of a Mountain Meadow

Bogdan-Mihai Negrea, Valeriu Stoilov-Linu, Cristian-Emilian Pop, György Deák, Nicolae Crăciun and Marius Mirodon Făgăraș
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Bogdan-Mihai Negrea: CE-MONT, Mountain Economy Center of the “Costin C. Kiritescu”, National Institute of Economic Research—INCE, Romanian Academy, 49 Petreni Street, 725700 Vatra Dornei, Romania
Valeriu Stoilov-Linu: CE-MONT, Mountain Economy Center of the “Costin C. Kiritescu”, National Institute of Economic Research—INCE, Romanian Academy, 49 Petreni Street, 725700 Vatra Dornei, Romania
Cristian-Emilian Pop: Non-Governmental Research Organization Biologic, 14 Schitului Str., 032044 Bucharest, Romania
György Deák: National Institute for Research & Development in Environmental Protection, 060031 Bucharest, Romania
Nicolae Crăciun: Zoology Section, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 91-95 Splaiul Independenței Str., 050095 Bucharest, Romania
Marius Mirodon Făgăraș: Doctoral School of Applied Sciences (Biology), Ovidius University of Constanta, 58 Ion Voda Street, 900525 Constanta, Romania

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 9, 1-13

Abstract: Many invasive plant species use interactions with their anthropic environment as a propagation factor and benefit from climate changes, which have become accentuated in the last decade. The way such species interact with climate changes, as well as their high specific ecological plasticity, gives them a consistent advantage over native plant species. This work aims to demonstrate through a simple calculation the quantification of the productive potential of a wet meadow on which populations of an invasive plant species grew. The loss of productive potential induced by Reynoutria japonica Houtt on a mountain meadow in Ciocănești village, Romania, was the main objective. In the case of the productive potential of the meadows, a method for the general calculation of such losses was shown. The degree of anthropization of the studied area was also evaluated, correlating the degree of anthropization with the invasive species’ potential for spreading and affecting the mountain area.

Keywords: losses quantification; Bistrița River; meadows; non-native species; riparian habitats; Reynoutria japonica Houtt; meadow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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