From introduction to nuisance growth: a review of traits of alien aquatic plants which contribute to their invasiveness

A Hussner, P Heidbüchel, J Coetzee, EM Gross - Hydrobiologia, 2021 - Springer
Invasive alien aquatic plant species (IAAPs) cause serious ecological and economic impact
and are a major driver of changes in aquatic plant communities. Their invasive success is …

A review of the causes and consequences of geographical variability in weed biological control successes

NE Harms, JT Cronin, R Diaz, RL Winston - Biological Control, 2020 - Elsevier
The impacts of different biotic and abiotic limiting factors on introduced biological control
agents and their weed targets may result in geographically variable control, with implications …

Contrasting effects of specialist and generalist herbivores on resistance evolution in invasive plants

Z Zhang, X Pan, D Blumenthal, M Van Kleunen… - Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive alien plants are likely to be released from specialist herbivores and at the same
time encounter biotic resistance from resident generalist herbivores in their new ranges. The …

Rapid evolution of latitudinal clines in growth and defence of an invasive weed

Y Yang, M Liu, Y Pan, H Huang, X Pan, A Sosa… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Re‐establishment of heritable latitudinal clines in growth‐related traits has been recognised
as evidence for adaptive evolution in invasive plants. However, less information is known …

Biogenic fabrication of iron nanoadsorbents from mixed waste biomass for aqueous phase removal of alizarin red S and tartrazine: kinetics, isotherm, and …

PK Gautam, PM Shivapriya, S Banerjee… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Present work deals with the facile and ecologically viable production of iron nanoadsorbents
by utilizing different waste plant biomass, orange peel, flower waste, and environmentally …

Abiotic and Biotic Determinants of Plant Diversity in Aquatic Communities Invaded by Water Hyacinth [Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms]

H Wu, J Ding - Frontiers in plant science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Rapid global environmental changes could exacerbate the impacts of invasive plants on
indigenous plant diversity, especially for freshwater ecosystems characterized by relatively …

Plant invasion alters latitudinal pattern of plant‐defense syndromes

M Liu, Y Pan, X Pan, A Sosa, DM Blumenthal… - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between herbivory and latitude may differ between native and introduced
populations of invasive plants, which can generate latitudinal heterogeneity in the strength …

Defence mechanisms of Ficus: pyramiding strategies to cope with pests and pathogens

C Villard, R Larbat, R Munakata, A Hehn - Planta, 2019 - Springer
Ficus species have adapted to diverse environments and pests by developing physical or
chemical protection strategies. Physical defences are based on the accumulation of …

Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals ecological adaption of cold tolerance in northward invasion of Alternanthera philoxeroides

L Luo, X Kong, Z Gao, Y Zheng, Y Yang, X Li, D Yang… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Alternanthera philoxeroides (alligator weed) is a highly invasive alien plant that
has continuously and successfully expanded from the tropical to the temperate regions of …

Testing the shifting defense hypothesis for constitutive and induced resistance and tolerance

M Liu, X Pan, Z Zhang, M van Kleunen, B Li - Journal of Pest Science, 2020 - Springer
Biogeographical variation in herbivore communities may drive invasive plants to evolve
lower defense against specialist herbivores but higher defense against generalist …