Abstract Introduced invasive plants are a major environmental problem, but public interest in is generally considered low compared to climate change and threatened flagship species, hindering support for effective management policy. To understand what does drive the US, we investigated Google Trends search data from 2010 2020 209 introduced plant species found continental US. Using phylogenetic...

Invasive plants can alter soil microbial communities and generate positive plant–soil feedbacks that facilitate their performance, but the magnitude direction of may change with novel conditions under climate change. We assessed how potential legacy effects plant invasion simulated drought influenced performance competition in longleaf pine ecosystem. collected from a 4-year factorial (cogongra...

The impact of exotic species on native organisms is widely acknowledged, but poorly understood. Very few studies have empirically investigated how invading plants may alter delicate ecological interactions among resident species in the invaded range. We present novel evidence that antifungal phytochemistry of the invasive plant, Alliaria petiolata, a European invader of North American forests, ...

Weed species Anoda cristata, Ipomoeahederacea,and I. trilobaare reported for the first time for the flora of Iran. Trianthema portulacastrum, andMerremiadissecta, which have been previously reported as a doubtful and an ornamental species respectively from non-agricultural areas, are recorded for the first time from arable and farmlands of the country. Exact localities, crops, distribution, ill...

Herbivory-induced responses in plants can both negatively affect subsequently colonizing herbivores and mitigate the effect of herbivory on the host. However, it is still less known whether plants exhibit specific responses to specialist and generalist herbivores in non-secondary metabolite traits and how specificity to specialists and generalists differs between invasive and native plant popul...

Biological invasion is regarded as one of the greatest environmental problems facilitated by globalization. Some hypotheses about the invasive mechanisms of alien invasive plants consider the plant-herbivore interaction and the role of plant defense in this interaction. For example, the "Shift Defense Hypothesis" (SDH) argues that introduced plants evolve higher levels of qualitative defense ch...

Evidence is increasing that invasive plants can undergo rapid adaptive evolution during the process of range expansion. Here, we argue that evolutionary change during invasions will also affect plant-antagonist interactions and, thus, will have important implications for biological control programmes targeted at invasive plants. We explore how altered selection in the new range might influence ...

Invasive species success may depend on ecophysiological attributes present in their native area or derived from changes that took place in the invaded environment. We studied the growth and photosynthetic capacity of Berberis darwinii shrubs growing under different light conditions (gap, forest edge and below the canopy) in their native area of Patagonia, Argentina. Leaf photosynthesis results ...

The research carried out in Olt County regarding invasive and potentially alogen plant species is a necessary step order to complete the information on their distribution at national level. data obtained will be able used for careful monitoring of these plants adoption management measures eradication or prevention introduction spread.
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