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Heracleum mantegazzianum in the Czech Republic: Dynamics of spreading from the historical perspective

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The spread ofHeracleum mantegazzianum in the Czech Republic has been reconstructed on the basis of floristic data. The species has spread from several spatially independent localities which have originated from the West Bohemian population introduced in the 19th century. Its expansion first followed the courses of great rivers. An exponential increase in the number of localities reported in particular years and in the cummulative number of localities was found. The species abundance decreases from the region of original introduction, which is located in the westernmost part of the country, to the east. The rate of spread in the last sixty years was the same in the Czech Republic and in Great Britain. The species is, however, more widespread in the North of Europe presumably because of the more favourable climate. It is found most frequently in habitats that encourage the greatest movement of diaspores. Floristic data can be used to infer retrospectively the dynamics of invasion, of a species in a given area provided that there is a sufficient amount of floristic research over time.

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Pyšek, P. Heracleum mantegazzianum in the Czech Republic: Dynamics of spreading from the historical perspective. Folia geobot. phytotax. 26, 439–454 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02912779

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