Preadapted for invasiveness: do species traits or their plastic response to shading differ between invasive and non-invasive plant species in their native range?

The global invasion success of Central European plants is related to distribution characteristics in their native range and species traits

(2009) Petr Pyšek et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

A meta-analysis of trait differences between invasive and non-invasive plant species

(2009) Mark van Kleunen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Introduction history and species characteristics partly explain naturalization success of North American woody species in Europe

(2009) Anna Bucharova et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Comparative response of seedlings of selected native dry tropical and alien invasive species to CO2 enrichment

(2009) P. Raizada et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

A multi-species experiment in their native range indicates pre-adaptation of invasive alien plant species

(2009) Daniel R. Schlaepfer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora

(2009) M. Winter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences

(2008) Fernando Valladares et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Reducing redundancy in invasion ecology by integrating hypotheses into a single theoretical framework

(2008) Jane A. Catford et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework for integrating pathways into policy

(2008) P. E. Hulme et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Differences in plasticity between invasive and native plants from a low resource environment

(2008) Jennifer L. Funk   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Modeling the growth of individuals in crowded plant populations

(2008) C. Damgaard et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology