Seed source regions drive fitness differences in invasive macrophytes.

ABSTRACT: PREMISE:Worldwide, ecosystems are threatened by global changes, including biological invasions. Invasive species arriving in novel environments experience new climatic conditions that can affect their successful establishment. Determining the response of functional traits and fitness components of invasive populations from contrasting environments can provide a useful framework to assess species responses to climate change and the variability of these responses among source populations. Much research on macrophytes has focused on establishment from clonal fragments; however, colonization from sexual propagules has rarely been studied. Our objective was to compare trait responses of plants generated from sexual propagules sourced from three climatic regions but grown under common environmen

SUBMITTER: Gillard MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7384113 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature