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Fast-growing and poorly shade-tolerant invasive species may exhibit higher physiological but not morphological plasticity compared with non-invasive species
Phenotypic plasticity is one of the important mechanisms relevant to exotic plant invasions, and high plasticity is likely to influence the potential invasiveness of species. Phenotypic plasticity is broadly d...
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Effects of extreme temperature on seedling establishment of nonnative invasive plants
Climate change and plant invasion are two of the most important ecological issues facing the world today. Extreme events are likely to play an important role in plant invasion. For example, tolerance to temper...
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Do higher resource capture ability and utilization efficiency facilitate the successful invasion of native plants?
The great damage caused by native invasive species on natural ecosystems is prompting increasing concern worldwide. Many studies have focused on exotic invasive species. In general, exotic invasive plants have...
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Inhibition of an invasive plant (Mikania micrantha H.B.K.) by soils of three different forests in lower subtropical China
Biological invasion represents one of the most serious threats to biodiversity, and invasion ecology research has become one of the central issues of contemporary environmental science. However, the relative r...
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Open AccessIdentification and expression profile of a putative basement membrane protein gene in the midgut of Helicoverpa armigera
The midgut undergoes histolysis and remodeling during the larval to adult transition in holometabolous insects, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this process are not well understood.