Plant invasions, a byproduct of globalization, are increasing worldwide. Because of their
ecological and economic impacts, considerable efforts have been made to understand and …

Invasions by alien plants provide a unique opportunity to examine competitive interactions
among plants. While resource competition has long been regarded as a major mechanism …

Biological invasions present a global problem underlain by an ecological paradox that
thwarts explanation: how do some exotic species, evolutionarily naïve to their new …

Concerns over the ecological impacts of invasive alien plant species have generated great
research interest in understanding the mechanisms that underlie the capacity of such plants …

While invasive plant species primarily occur in disturbed, high-resource environments, many
species have invaded ecosystems characterized by low nutrient, water, and light availability …

Many ecosystems are dominated by clonal plants. Among the most distinctive characteristics
of clonal plants is their potential for clonal integration (ie the translocation of resources …

Background and Aims It is frequently assumed that phenotypic plasticity can be very
advantageous for plants, because it may increase environmental tolerance (fitness …

A high ability of alien plant species to capitalize on increases in resource availability has
been suggested as an explanation for being globally successful. Here, we tested this …

Global environmental change not only includes changes in mean environmental conditions
but also in temporal environmental fluctuations. Because it is frequently suggested that …

The question of why some introduced species become invasive and others do not is the
central puzzle of invasion biology. Two of the principal explanations for this phenomenon …