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 …

Alien plant invasions are a major component of global change, and can severely threaten
local floras and global biodiversity. A striking pattern of invasive floras is that many of the …

Global environmental change not only includes changes in mean environmental conditions
but also in temporal environmental fluctuations. Because it is frequently suggested that …

Phenotypic plasticity has been proposed as an important adaptive strategy for clonal plants
in heterogeneous habitats. Increased phenotypic plasticity can be especially beneficial for …

A worth noticing pattern in current invasive biology is the clonal ability of many of the world's
worst invasive plants. Selective placement of ramets (ie foraging behavior) can intensify …

(1) Background: A central subject in clonal plant ecology is to elucidate the mechanism by
which clones forage resources in heterogeneous environments. Compared with studies …

Contamination of soils by microplastics can have profound ecological impacts on terrestrial
ecosystems and has received increasing attention. However, few studies have considered …

Soil resource heterogeneity can affect plant growth and competitive ability. However, little is
known about how soil resource heterogeneity affects competitive interactions between …

Phenotypic plasticity is thought to be important for plants in variable environments. The
climatic variability hypothesis poses that populations at higher latitudes, due to the stronger …

Many of the most invasive plant species in the world can propagate clonally, suggesting
clonality offers advantages that facilitate invasion. Gaining insights into the clonal growth …