Many ecosystems are dominated by clonal plants. Among the most distinctive characteristics
of clonal plants is their potential for clonal integration (ie the translocation of resources …

Clonal plants are widespread throughout the plant kingdom and dominate in diverse
habitats. Spatiotemporal heterogeneity of environment is pervasive at multiple scales, even …

What confers invasive alien plants a competitive advantage over native plants remains open
to debate. Many of the world's worst invasive alien plants are clonal and able to share …

Clonal plants play key roles in maintaining community productivity and stability in many
ecosystems. Connected individuals (ramets) of clonal plants can translocate and share, for …

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

Although evolution has been often seen as a gradual process through a Darwinian lens, far
more rapid evolutionary change has been observed in recent times. Recent examples …

Functional traits are frequently proposed to determine the invasiveness of alien species.
However, few empirical studies have directly manipulated functional traits and tested their …

Questions Many studies report a decrease of native species richness in communities after
plant invasion by exotic taxa, but the implications of species losses on community functional …

Coastal dune ecosystems are highly threatened, and one of the strongest pressures is
invasive alien plants (IAPs). Mitigating the negative effects of IAPs requires development of …

Many notorious invasive plants are clonal, however, little is known about the different roles
of clonal integration effects between invasive and native plants. Here, we hypothesize that …