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

Eight questions about invasions and ecosystem functioning

(2012) David L. Strayer   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Context dependence in foraging behaviour of Achillea millefolium

(2012) Justine D. Karst et al.   OECOLOGIA

Seasonality and phenology alter functional leaf traits

(2012) Athena D. McKown et al.   OECOLOGIA

Temperature and functional traits influence differences in nitrogen uptake capacity between native and invasive grasses

(2012) A. Joshua Leffler et al.   OECOLOGIA

Phylogenetically Poor Plant Communities Receive More Alien Species, Which More Easily Coexist with Natives

(2011) Pille Gerhold et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis

(2011) David J. Eldridge 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

Nitrogen acquisition by annual and perennial grass seedlings: testing the roles of performance and plasticity to explain plant invasion

(2011) A. J. Leffler et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Why research on traits of invasive plants tells us very little

(2011) Ken Thompson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

In their native range, invasive plants are held in check by negative soil-feedbacks

(2011) D. Zuppinger-Dingley et al.   Ecosphere

Functional differences between native and alien species: a global-scale comparison

(2010) Alejandro Ordonez et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Growing season ecosystem and leaf-level gas exchange of an exotic and native semiarid bunchgrass

(2010) Erik P. Hamerlynck et al.   OECOLOGIA

Nutrient enrichment enhances hidden differences in phenotype to drive a cryptic plant invasion

(2010) Christine Holdredge et al.   OIKOS

Nutrient amendments in a temperate grassland have greater negative impacts on early season and exotic plant species

(2010) Jean J. Pan et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Principles for Ecologically Based Invasive Plant Management

(2010) Jeremy J. James et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

Physiological responses to short-term water and light stress in native and invasive plant species in southern California

(2009) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Biological invasions and the neutral theory

(2009) Pedro Daleo 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

Native and exotic invasive plants have fundamentally similar carbon capture strategies

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

Measuring the importance of competition: a new formulation of the problem

(2009) Christian Damgaard et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Differential effects of functional traits on aboveground biomass in semi-natural grasslands

(2009) Jens Schumacher et al.   OIKOS

Variation in resource acquisition and utilization traits between native and invasive perennial forbs

(2008) R. E. Drenovsky et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Factors Associated with Alien Plants Transitioning from Casual, to Naturalized, to Invasive

(2008) ANN MILBAU et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Plant-soil feedbacks: a meta-analytical review

(2008) Andrew Kulmatiski et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Leaf nitrogen productivity as a mechanism driving the success of invasive annual grasses under low and high nitrogen supply

(2008) J.J. James   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

(2008) Karel Mokany et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Restoration through reassembly: plant traits and invasion resistance

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