Scientists discovered that some invasive seaweed can travel from rocky shorelines out into seagrass beds by hitching rides on the backs of foraging limpets, helping the seaweed spread into new habitats and competing...
Tag - invasion
Renata Cantoro
Embracing the variability within a single plant species: how and why we need to study it
Scientists present 28 recommendations for studying plant intraspecific trait variation.
Juniper Kiss
Invasive earthworms, invasive plants and their effects on native species
How do invasive species interact to influence the abundance and physiology of native plants?
William Salter
Biotic interactions of native and non-native species under future warming
How do abiotic and biotic factors influence range expansion of closely related native and non-native Eugenia shrub species?
Polyploid plants take a leaf out from the invasive species book
The extent to which propagule pressure limits the establishment of local polyploid populations remains to be determined, because we know so little.
Invaders and Natives show different variability in Hawaii
Native and invading plants vary differently in leaf shape in response to climate. Curiously, sometimes the native plants are more acquisitive than the invaders.
Alex Assiry
How do plant hybrids aid invasions?
There’s a common belief that hybridization of plants can aid invasions through adaptive introgression. This is where a hybrid breeds with one of its parent species, so that the parent species eventually adopts a new...
Fi Gennu
Geographic population structure in an outcrossing plant invasion after centuries of cultivation and recent founding events
Population structure and genetic diversity of plant invasions are the result of evolutionary processes such as natural selection, drift and founding events. Some invasions are also molded by specific human activities...
Constraints on coastal dune invasion for a notorious plant invader
Although most biological invasions are not successful, relatively few studies have examined otherwise notorious invaders in systems where they are not highly problematic. The annual grass Bromus tectorum is a dominant...
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