Stressful environments such as salinity, drought, and high temperature (heat) cause
alterations in a wide range of physiological, biochemical, and molecular processes in plants …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 419–431 Abstract Do invasive plant species have greater
phenotypic plasticity than non‐invasive species? And, if so, how does this affect their fitness …

Extreme climatic events (ECEs)–such as unusual heat waves, hurricanes, floods, and
droughts–can dramatically affect ecological and evolutionary processes, and these events …

While invasive plant species primarily occur in disturbed, high-resource environments, many
species have invaded ecosystems characterized by low nutrient, water, and light availability …

Even before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, the perception of evolutionary
change has been a tree-like pattern of diversification-with divergent branches spreading …

Aim The study of biological invasions has long considered species invasiveness and
community invasibility as separate questions. Only recently, there is an increasing …

Plastic responses to spatiotemporal environmental variation strongly influence species
distribution, with widespread species expected to have high phenotypic plasticity …

Phenotypic plasticity is commonly considered as a trait associated with invasiveness in alien
plants because it may enhance the ability of plants to occupy a wide range of environments …

Abstract Background and Aims Extreme climatic events such as severe droughts are
expected to increase with climate change and to limit grassland perennity. The present study …

The emergence of new techniques in plant science, including molecular and phenomic
tools, presents a novel opportunity to re-evaluate the way we examine the phenotype. Our …