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Predicting the potential distribution of the invasive weed Mikania micrantha and its biological control agent Puccinia spegazzinii under climate change scenarios in China

2025· article· en· W4408919450 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueBiological Control · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicBiological Control of Invasive Species
Canadian institutionsTrinity Western UniversityWestern University
FundersNational Key Research and Development Program of ChinaTen Thousand Talent Plans for Young Top-notch Talents of Yunnan ProvinceNational Office for Philosophy and Social SciencesNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsMikania micranthaBiologyWeedBiological pest controlInvasive speciesWeed controlChinaPucciniaAgronomyEcologyBotanyGeography

Abstract

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Research on the potential distribution of invasive plants and their biological control agents under climate change is critical for informing strategies in invasive species management. The rust fungus Puccinia spegazzinii shows significant potential as a biological control agent for the invasive weed Mikania micrantha . The MaxEnt (Maximum Entropy) model was used to simulate the distribution of M. micrantha and P. spegazzinii under current and future climate scenarios. The models achieved excellent prediction performance, with M. micrantha and P. spegazzinii having area under the curve values of 0.921 and 0.978 respectively, and true skill statistics values of 0.886 and 0.902 respectively. Precipitation is the primary factor influencing the distributions of M. micrantha , while P. spegazzinii is determined by both temperature and precipitation. The suitable areas for the two species are concentrated in southern China, with M. micrantha exhibiting broader adaptability compared to P. spegazzinii . Under future climate scenarios, the suitable areas for M. micrantha in China will expand northward, with a maximum projected growth rate of 84.6 % in the 2070 s, whereas P. spegazzinii exhibits a contracting trend (with a projected reduction of 40.8 % in the 2050 s). Under the current climate scenario, the overlapping suitable areas between the two species account for 25.2 % of the total suitable area for M. micrantha and 100 % of that for P. spegazzinii and both remain relatively stable under future climate scenarios. This work can provide guidance for the application of biological control, and serves as a valuable reference for developing early warning and management response strategies for invasive species in China.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.705
Threshold uncertainty score0.481

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.220
Teacher spread0.193 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it