Understanding the responses of invasive and native populations to environmental change is crucial for reliable predictions of invasions in the face of global change. While comparisons of responses across invasive species with different life histories have been performed before, comparing functional ...

Carthamus tinctorius L. (safflower) is an oilseeds plant and high potential crop because of multipurpose utilization. However, this plant has not been cultivated in the Republic of Moldova until now. The purpose was the evaluation of the biological and production potential of safflower in the...

Spartina alterniflora is one of the most serious invasive species in the coastal saltmarshes of China. Seeds are generally considered to be the main method for this species to colonise new habitat, but little is known quantitatively about the seed dispersal capacity and post-dispersal fate (i.e.,...

Potentially invasive species can be identified before they start to spread by comparing their traits with those of successful invaders. A powerful tool for delimiting the traits associated with invasiveness are analyses of a number of species of the same genus, where it is more likely to detect...

Five Romanian and eight Serbian cultivars were evaluated in the conditions of South Bulgaria for nine agronomic traits. Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) permitted to group the cultivars in two main clusters divided each one in three sub-clusters. The most distant, according to the complex of...

We identified plant attributes associated with naturalization and invasiveness using century-old ornamental plant catalogs from Québec (Canada). We tested the hypothesis that naturalization is determined by fewer factors than invasiveness, as the latter also requires dispersal, which introduces...

Bidens frondosa L. populations are studied in the Republic of Mordovia. The density of individuals of invasive species is high and it fluctuates on average from 78 to 202 individuals per 1 m². A comparison of the seed mass, the number of seeds per calathidium, the seed germination, and the area of...

For understanding local and regional seed dispersal and plant establishment processes and for considering the ecotypes and other forms of specific variability, hard data of locally or regionally measured traits are necessary. We provided newly measured seed weight data of 193 taxa, out of which 24...

Invasive exotic plants often grow fast, reproduce rapidly and display considerable phenotypic plasticity in their invasive range, which may be essential characteristics for successful invasion. However, it remains unclear whether these characteristics are already present in native populations...

Cucumis melo L. subsp. agrestis (Naudin) Pangalo is a weedy and feral form of cultivated melon (Cucumis melo L.) and has a widespread occurrence in Africa, Asia and Australian continents. In the present paper, an attempt has been made to study the in situ diversity of fruit and seed characteristics ...