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Genetic and Ecological Characterization of the Invasive Wetland Grasses Arundo donax and Phragmites australis in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin

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Plant Diversity and Ecology in the Chihuahuan Desert

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Arundo donax and Phragmites australis are two of the most aggressive invasive grasses worldwide, both are associated with wetlands and can be very abundant, becoming dominant in these ecosystems. These two species are common in northern Mexico. Genetic and ecological characterization of A. donax in two populations from the state of Coahuila (North of Mexico) indicate that they are less clonal and more variable, as well as with a higher genetic diversity compared to populations in other parts of the world and suggest that their genotypes are adapted to different environmental conditions and may represent independent introductions. On the other hand, genealogical analyses show that two independent lineages of P. australis are present in Mexico, the Gulf Coast subspecies, P. australis ssp. berlandieri, found across Mexico, including the state of Coahuila, and the endemic native subspecies, P. australis ssp. americanus, found in a population from Cuatro Ciénegas Basin (CCB) (Coahuila, Mexico). Here, we conduct a review of the genetic and ecological characteristics of both species in the Chihuahuan Desert, mainly focusing in CCB. The aim is to provide a better understanding in the evolutionary ecology of these two closely related and ecologically similar species and determine if these species of grasses represent a risk for the ecosystem and the valley’s biota.

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Acknowledgments

The manuscript was written during a sabbatical leave of LEE in the University of Minnesota, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, in the laboratory of Peter Tiffin, with support of the program PASPA- DGAPA, UNAM. We deeply acknowledge the detailed reviews of the manuscript by Irene Pisanty and by Erika Aguirre Planter. Ricardo Colin Nuñez was a doctoral student from Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and received fellowship 215751 from CONACyT. We thank the Programa de Posgrado de Doctorado en Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Laboratorio de Evolución Molecular y Experimental, Instituto de Ecología, UNAM.

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    Ricardo Colin & Luis E. Eguiarte

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Colin, R., Eguiarte, L.E. (2020). Genetic and Ecological Characterization of the Invasive Wetland Grasses Arundo donax and Phragmites australis in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin. In: Mandujano, M., Pisanty, I., Eguiarte, L. (eds) Plant Diversity and Ecology in the Chihuahuan Desert. Cuatro Ciénegas Basin: An Endangered Hyperdiverse Oasis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44963-6_15

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