Plant modularity-related traits are important ecological determinants of vegetation
composition, dynamics, and resilience. While simple changes in plant biomass resulting …

This report synthesizes all aspects of the taxonomy, distribution, history of introduction and
spread, ecological constrains (including preferred climate, substratum and habitats) …

Biological invasions represent one of the most important threats to biodiversity conservation
at a global scale. What makes a plant to be a successful invader is a question not completely …

Plants with clonal growth can produce multiple potentially independent units, termed ramets.
Clonal growth can have important ecological and evolutionary consequences, such as by …

Clonal plants can make up a disproportionately high number of the introduced, invasive
plant species in a region. Physiological integration of connected ramets within clones is a …

Aims One of the key traits associated with clonal growth in plants is the capacity for
physiological integration, which allows resource sharing between connected ramets within a …

The anthropogenic displacement of species around the world results in new environmental
situations where native and exotic species coexist. Exotic plants have to face native …

Identifying the mechanism underlying plant invasiveness is a fast‐moving research topic in
current ecology. Phenotypic plasticity has been pointed out as a trait that can contribute to …

Aims Clonal growth is associated with invasiveness in introduced plant species, but few
studies have compared invasive and noninvasive introduced clonal species to investigate …

Two key hypotheses in invasion biology are that certain traits underlie invasiveness in
introduced species, and that these traits are selected for during or after introduction. We …