Climate change and weed adaptation: Can evolution of invasive plants lead to greater range expansion than forecasted?

Weed Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 227-240

  Clements, David ^a   Ditommaso, A ^b  

^a TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Evolution; Invasive species; Life history trait; Modelling; Phenotypic plasticity; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH; RANGE EXPANSION; TOLERANCE; WEED;

EID: 79955528691     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2011.00850.x     Document Type: Article

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