Abstract
Invasive non-native plants are changing ecosystems and native biodiversity, and modifying soil microbial feedback. The invasive species Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) D.C. (mesquite) has been introduced into several ecosystems, especially in tropical and subtropical regions, causing economic, ecological and health problems. This article reviews P. juliflora ecophysiological and reproductive attributes, such as phenology, vegetative, seed germination and dispersal, allelopathy and invasion mechanisms. We found that P. juliflora invasion has negative impacts on native biodiversity, ecosystem structure and function, bulk soil, seed bank, and hydrological cycle. We discuss P. juliflora as a ruminant food and for human use, and new management techniques. The easy naturalization P. juliflora in tropical regions has been explained by allelopathy, repeated flowering, vegetative propagation, production and dispersal of huge viable seeds. In particular, P. juliflora produces allelochemicals that are not produced in close relatives. Such chemicals have facilitative effects on associated vegetation in the native range, but have detrimental effects in the introduced range. Management strategies are presented to control P. juliflora invasion.
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