Are Local Filters Blind to Provenance? Ant Seed Predation Suppresses Exotic Plants More than Natives

A new perspective on trait differences between native and invasive exotic plants

(2014) A. Joshua Leffler et al.   ECOLOGY

Staged invasions across disparate grasslands: effects of seed provenance, consumers and disturbance on productivity and species richness

(2014) John L. Maron et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Rodent seed predation as a biotic filter influencing exotic plant abundance and distribution

(2013) D. E. Pearson et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Seed size and provenance mediate the joint effects of disturbance and seed predation on community assembly

(2013) John L. Maron et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biotic resistance: exclusion of native rodent consumers releases populations of a weak invader

(2013) Dean E. Pearson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Niche opportunities and invasion dynamics in a desert annual community

(2012) Ginger R. H. Allington et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Darwin’s naturalization hypothesis up-close: Intermountain grassland invaders differ morphologically and phenologically from native community dominants

(2011) Dean E. Pearson et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Biotic resistance via granivory: establishment by invasive, naturalized, and native asters reflects generalist preference

(2011) Dean E Pearson et al.   ECOLOGY

Emergent insights from the synthesis of conceptual frameworks for biological invasions

(2011) J. Gurevitch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Non-natives: 141 scientists object

(2011) Daniel Simberloff   NATURE

Don't judge species on their origins

(2011) Mark A. Davis et al.   NATURE

Seed predators limit plant recruitment in Neotropical savannas

(2010) Alana Vaz Ferreira et al.   OIKOS

Potential for ants and vertebrate predators to shape seed-dispersal dynamics of the invasive thistles Cirsium arvense and Carduus nutans in their introduced range (North America)

(2010) Christina Alba-Lynn et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Diet of two sympatric Pheidole spp. ants in the central Monte desert: implications for seed–granivore interactions

(2009) G. I. Pirk et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Convergent evolution of seed dispersal by ants, and phylogeny and biogeography in flowering plants: A global survey

(2009) Szabolcs Lengyel et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Seed predation as a barrier to alien conifer invasions

(2008) Martin A. Nuñez et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

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

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