Finding the factors that explain invasion success of species is a major objective in ecology. The combination of extensive data on fruit heteromorphism in Asteraceae and the largest global plant-naturalization database...
The competition–colonization trade-off in plants is considered to result from variation in resource partitioning. Using different populations of the heterocarpic species Crepis sancta (Asteraceae), Dubois and...
Time from seed dispersal to germination and time from germination to flowering are two key life history traits that determine fitness and coexistence of weeds in arable fields. Toorop et al. characterize these two...