A functional trait perspective on plant invasion

Ecophysiological traits associated with the competitive ability of invasive Australian acacias

(2011) Taryn L. Morris et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Impacts of invasive Australian acacias: implications for management and restoration

(2011) David C. Le Maitre et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Do invasive species show higher phenotypic plasticity than native species and, if so, is it adaptive? A meta-analysis

(2011) Amy Michelle Davidson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Emergent insights from the synthesis of conceptual frameworks for biological invasions

(2011) J. Gurevitch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analysis of their effects on species, communities and ecosystems

(2011) Montserrat Vilà et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate forcing due to optimization of maximal leaf conductance in subtropical vegetation under rising CO2

(2011) H. J. de Boer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecosystem Consequences of Biological Invasions

(2010) Joan G. Ehrenfeld   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

What Role Does Heritable Epigenetic Variation Play in Phenotypic Evolution?

(2010) Christina L. Richards et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Loss of foundation species increases population growth of exotic forbs in sagebrush steppe

(2010) Janet S. Prevéy et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Can resource-use traits predict native vs. exotic plant success in carbon amended soils?

(2010) Robert J. Steers et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Managing soil nitrogen to restore annual grass-infested plant communities: effective strategy or incomplete framework?

(2010) J. J. James et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Positive effects of native shrubs on Bromus tectorum demography

(2010) Alden B. Griffith   ECOLOGY

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Competitive seedlings and inherited traits: a test of rapid evolution of Elymus multisetus (big squirreltail) in response to cheatgrass invasion

(2010) Courtney L. J. Rowe et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Experimental alteration of DNA methylation affects the phenotypic plasticity of ecologically relevant traits in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2010) Oliver Bossdorf et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Disruption of an exotic mutualism can improve management of an invasive plant: varroa mite, honeybees and biological control of Scotch broomCytisus scopariusin New Zealand

(2010) Quentin Paynter et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Assessing potential invasiveness of woody horticultural plant species using seedling growth rate traits

(2010) Eva Grotkopp et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Plant functional traits in Australian subtropical rain forest: partitioning within-community from cross-landscape variation

(2010) Robert Kooyman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intraspecific variability and trait-based community assembly

(2010) Vincent Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Genetic uniformity characterizes the invasive spread of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), a clonal aquatic plant

(2010) YUAN-YE ZHANG et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Invasive forbs differ functionally from native graminoids, but are similar to native forbs

(2010) Deborah Scharfy et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Understanding natural epigenetic variation

(2010) Christina L. Richards et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant phenotypic plasticity in a changing climate

(2010) A.B. Nicotra et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Epigenetic regulation of stress responses in plants

(2009) Viswanathan Chinnusamy et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

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

(2009) Mark van Kleunen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A Continent‐Wide Clone: Population Genetic Variation of the Invasive Plant Hieracium aurantiacum (Orange Hawkweed; Asteraceae) in North America

(2009) Eli S. Loomis et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Which demographic traits determine population growth in the invasive brown seaweedSargassum muticum?

(2009) Aschwin Engelen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Native and exotic invasive plants have fundamentally similar carbon capture strategies

(2009) Michelle R. Leishman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional traits of alien plants across contrasting climatic and land-use regimes: do aliens join the locals or try harder than them?

(2009) Paula A. Tecco et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Stress-induced DNA methylation changes and their heritability in asexual dandelions

(2009) Koen J. F. Verhoeven et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Managing Complex Problems in Rangeland Ecosystems

(2009) Chad S. Boyd et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Altering Light Availability to Restore Invaded Forest: The Predictive Role of Plant Traits

(2009) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Assessing the Impact of Transgenerational Epigenetic Variation on Complex Traits

(2009) Frank Johannes et al.   PLoS Genetics

Plasticity in salt tolerance traits allows for invasion of novel habitat by Japanese knotweed s. l. (Fallopia japonica and F.xbohemica, Polygonaceae)

(2008) C. L. Richards et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Transient sensitivities of non-indigenous shrub species indicate complicated invasion dynamics

(2008) Sean M. McMahon et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Population epigenetics

(2008) Eric J Richards   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Invading populations of an ornamental shrub show rapid life history evolution despite genetic bottlenecks

(2008) Katrina M. Dlugosch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

History, chance and adaptation during biological invasion: separating stochastic phenotypic evolution from response to selection

(2008) Stephen R. Keller et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The impact of an invasive African bunchgrass (Pennisetum setaceum) on water availability and productivity of canopy trees within a tropical dry forest in Hawaii

(2008) S. Cordell et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

(2008) KATHARINE N. SUDING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Linking nitrogen partitioning and species abundance to invasion resistance in the Great Basin

(2008) J. J. James et al.   OECOLOGIA

California native and exotic perennial grasses differ in their response to soil nitrogen, exotic annual grass density, and order of emergence

(2008) Joel K. Abraham et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Restoration through reassembly: plant traits and invasion resistance

(2008) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Adaptive evolution in invasive species

(2008) Peter J. Prentis et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

The Invasive Species Assessment Protocol: A Tool for Creating Regional and National Lists of Invasive Nonnative Plants that Negatively Impact Biodiversity

(2008) John M. Randall et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

Founding events in species invasions: genetic variation, adaptive evolution, and the role of multiple introductions

(2007) K. M. DLUGOSCH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Altered ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycles by plant invasion: a meta-analysis

(2007) Chengzhang Liao et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Dispersal, demography and spatial population models for conservation and control management

(2007) Eelke Jongejans et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS