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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |