In the arid plains of northern Chile, exotic halophytes leverage soil salinity as a weapon to outcompete native plants, setting the stage for an ecological invasion.
Tag - invasive plants
Dale Maylea
A parasitic plant can cause an invasive plant’s allies to switch sides
Scaldweed, Cuscuta grovonii, can prevent an invasive plant from using soil microbes to help invade territory - and the parasite can even become more vicious by using those same microbes against its invasive host.
Alun Salt
When invasive plants move in, where do native pollinators go?
Invasive plants change the opportunities for pollinators, helping some but harming others.
Ready and prepared: climate change may favour the expansion of the invasive species Carpobrotus edulis
Rising temperatures and decreasing levels of precipitation can magnify the invasive potential of this South African plant that has already taken over temperate coasts around the world.
Margarita Lema
Impacts of land use on the stress responses of an invasive grass
Can ecotypic origin (i.e. agricultural vs. non-agricultural) and environmental selection pressures predict biomass accumulation in Johnsongrass?
William Salter
Agent Based Models in Plant Science
Agent-based modelling models systems as an interaction between different units, or agents. An example would be something like SimCity. In a review in Annals of Botany Zhang and DeAngelis review Agent Based Modelling in...
Fi Gennu
Trait responses of invasive aquatic macrophyte congeners: colonizing diploid outperforms polyploidy
Polyploidy (multiple copies of whole genomes) is over-represented in invasive plants and thought to promote their success in novel environments. Understanding functional traits supporting colonization can provide a...
AoBPLANTS
Range expansion of invasive shrubs: implication for crown fire risk in forestlands of the southern United States
Non-native plant invasions and changing management activities have altered the structure and composition of forests. Invasive shrubs and fire suppression have led to increased densification and biomass accumulation in...
Genetic diversity and floral width variation in introduced and native populations of a long-lived woody perennial
Populations of introduced species in their new environments are expected to differ from native populations, due to processes such as genetic drift, founder effects, and local adaptation, which can often result in rapid...
Hitting the right target: taxonomic challenges for, and of, plant invasions
Taxonomic resources are essential for the effective management of invasive plants because biosecurity strategies, legislation dealing with invasive species, quarantine, weed surveillance and monitoring all depend on...
Phenology and resource allocation in Ruellia
In plants that produce both closed, obligatory self-pollinated (cleistogamous) and open, potentially out-crossed (chasmogamous) flowers, suboptimal conditions typically favour production of cleistogamous flowers...
botanyone
Invasion strategies in clonal aquatic plants
Invasion strategies in clonal aquatic plants The successful spread of invasive plants is often linked to a diverse gene pool that facilitates local adaptation to variable environmental conditions: but what about clonal...
