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Herbaceous plant species invading natural areas tend to have stronger adaptive root foraging than other naturalized species

Although plastic root-foraging responses are thought to be adaptive, as they may optimize nutrient capture of plants, this has rarely been tested. We investigated whether nutrient-foraging responses are adaptive, and whether they pre-adapt alien species to become natural-area invaders. We grew 12 pa...

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Autores principales: Keser, Lidewij H., Visser, Eric J. W., Dawson, Wayne, Song, Yao-Bin, Yu, Fei-Hai, Fischer, Markus, Dong, Ming, van Kleunen, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4410514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25964790
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2015.00273