Interrelated Causes of Plant Invasion
- 14 October 2005
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 310 (5746) , 243-244
Abstract
In his or her Perspective, Blumenthal discusses how plants from high-resource habitats are often poorly defended, nutritious, and strongly regulated by enemies. Consequently, these species may benefit the most by entering new habits to escape their natural enemies. This hypothesis predicts that high-resource invasive species may be particularly susceptible to biological control and that increases in resource availability will favor exotic plants.Keywords
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