Flowering of bamboos is rare, it tends to be sporadic when some culms flower or gregarious, when all the individuals in the population flower at the same time and in different areas. Some species of woody bamboos die after flowering while others do not. Chusquea scandens Kunth is a woody bamboo...

In Italy, alien acacias have been introduced for ornamental and reforestation purposes, and some species became invasive occupying patches of the Mediterranean landscape. On the Island of Elba (Central Italy), Acacia dealbata and A. pycnantha form dense stands at short distance, showing an...

Resource allocation patterns and trade-off between sexual and clonal reproduction in clonal plants have been extensively studied, but little is known about effects of organ removal on the trade-offs in clonal plants. To examine the effects, we conducted an experiment with the stoloniferous herb ...

Understanding which plant traits confer invasiveness has been a central question in biological invasions research. Heterotheca subaxillaris (camphor-weed), an American plant, is an important invader of coastal sand dunes in Israel. Nevertheless, there has been no comprehensive comparative analysis...

This paper presents the results of a study conducted to determine if flower colour polymorphism and multi-seasonal flowering have any role in invasiveness in plants. In the proposed hypothesis, an idea is put forward that plant species with these traits have a higher potential for bioinvasion...

Methods were developed and tested for mapping the distribution of Scotch broom, an invasive shrub species expanding its range and disrupting native species and habitats in several parts of the world. During spring, the Scotch broom produces yellow flowers. Landsat imagery during the flower bloom...

In the subalpine zone on Mt. Hakusan, Japan, Plantago asiatica, an alien plant, and Plantago hakusanensis, a native alpine species, grow sympatrically along with their putative hybrids. Here, their flowering behavior, which affects the frequency of hybridization and the colonizing ability of P....

Through competition for pollinators, invasive plants may suppress native flora. Community-level studies provide an integrative assessment of invasion impacts and insights into factors that influence the vulnerability of different native species. We investigated effects of the nonnative herb Lythrum ...

Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers. is the most aggressive grass weed of the world resulting from an efficient system of its reproduction and propagation through a combination of vegetative and sexual means. However, reproductive biology of the species is not understood in sufficient details and had...

Land degradation results in declining biodiversity and the disruption of ecosystem functioning worldwide, particularly in the tropics. Vegetation restoration is a common tool used to mitigate these impacts and increasingly aims to restore ecosystem functions rather than species diversity. However,...