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Allelopathy of Knotweeds as Invasive Plants [PDF]
Plants, 2021 Perennial herbaceous Fallopia is native to East Asia, and was introduced to Europe and North America in the 19th century as an ornamental plant. Fallopia has been spreading quickly and has naturalized in many countries.
Hisashi Kato-Noguchi
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Plant invasions — the role of mutualisms [PDF]
Biological Reviews, 2000 ABSTRACTMany introduced plant species rely on mutualisms in their new habitats to overcome barriers to establishment and to become naturalized and, in some cases, invasive. Mutualisms involving animalmediated pollination and seed dispersal, and symbioses between plant roots and microbiota often facilitate invasions.
D M, Richardson +4 more
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Plants, 2023 This article belongs to the Special Issue “Plant Invasion Ecology” [...]
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Epigenetics and the success of invasive plants [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2020 Abstract Biological invasions impose ecological and economic problems on a global scale, but also provide extraordinary opportunities for studying contemporary evolution. It is critical to understand the evolutionary processes that underly invasion success in order to successfully manage existing invaders, and to prevent future ...
Mounger, Jeannie +8 more
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Invasive-plant traits, native-plant traits, and their divergences as invasion factors. [PDF]
Ecol EvolAbstractInvasive plants exert significant ecological impacts on native plants, communities, and ecosystems. However, consistent conclusions regarding how traits of invasive plants, native plants, and their divergences affect invasion dynamics are still lacking.
Li Y, Yue M, Wang Y, Mao Z, Lyv J, Li Q.
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Plant invasions and extinction debts [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013 Whether introduced species invasions pose a major threat to biodiversity is hotly debated. Much of this debate is fueled by recent findings that competition from introduced organisms has driven remarkably few plant species to extinction.
Benjamin, Gilbert, Jonathan M, Levine
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Why Are Invasive Plants Successful?
Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2023 Plant invasions, a byproduct of globalization, are increasing worldwide. Because of their ecological and economic impacts, considerable efforts have been made to understand and predict the success of non-native plants. Numerous frameworks, hypotheses, and theories have been advanced to conceptualize the interactions of multiple drivers and context ...
Margherita Gioria +3 more
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Weed leucaena and its significance, implications and control
Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales, 2019 Keynote paper presented at the International Leucaena Conference, 1‒3 November 2018, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala) is widely recognized in many countries as a commercially valuable plant, particularly when used as a ...
Shane Campbell +4 more
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InsectsThe United States Department of Agriculture—Invasive Plant Research Laboratory started limited production of a biological control mite, Floracarus perrepae, in 2008 for release against the invasive fern Lygodium microphyllum.
Jessene Aquino-Thomas +5 more
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 IntroductionAlliaria petiolata (garlic mustard), an invasive forest herb in North America, often alters nutrient availability in its non-native ecosystems, but the mechanisms driving these changes have yet to be determined.
Joseph D. Edwards +5 more
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