Alien plant
Functional similarity and dissimilarity facilitate alien plant invasiveness along biotic and abiotic gradients in an arid protected area
... For alien plant species, we measured three key functional traits (plant height from the ground (cm), specific leaf area [SLA, (cm 2 /g) and the above-ground biomass (kg)] directly from the field for ...
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Alien plant species along watercourses in the Natura 2000 network
... Exotic species Number of sites Linear proportion of river bank (%) Picea abies 76/187 17.1 Impatiens glandulifera 45/187 16.6 Epilobium ciliatum 33/187 4.1 Fallopia spp.. Results: most [r] ...
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Climatic differentiation of the invasive alien plant Senecio inaequidens (Asteraceae) during invasion
... In the present study, we address the following questions: Can plant populations develop adaptative differentiations in relation to climate (e.g. temperature) ? Is the timescale of this potential ...
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Alien invasive plants in Belgian Limestone quarries
... of alien plant invasion in limestone quarries, but with a high ...of alien invasive plants did not significantly differ based on quarry ...of plant invasion and highlights the continuation of ...
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Endemic and alien vascular plant diversity in the small Mediterranean islands of Sardinia: Drivers and implications for their conservation
... vs. alien species richness and compositional dissimilarity The overall risk-ranking method prioritised islands using endemic ...and alien compo- ...and alien plant species richness (α-Endemic ...
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Early detection of alien plants in xeric Natura 2000 sites in Southern Belgium
... naturalized alien plant species were observed in xeric habitats of the Natura 2000 network in Southern Belgium Generally, alien species populations were still limited Xeric habitats of high ...
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The importance of assessing positive and beneficial impacts of alien species
... ward alien species can be simultaneously favourable and unfavourable (Novoa et ...few alien taxa such as pine trees (Pinus ...an alien plant that is highly toxic to livestock, has generated ...
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Functional – structural plant models: a growing paradigm for plant studies
... L-studio, Prusinkiewicz, 2004a ; GroIMP, Hemmerling et al., 2008 ; OpenAlea, Pradal et al., 2008 ; L-Py, Boudon et al., 2012 ; AMAPstudio, Griffon and Coligny, 2014 ). They offer powerful tools to specify (for example) ...
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Plant DNA Polymerases
... All plant replicative polymerases were also reported to play an important role during meiosis, providing further evidence for their probable contribution to DSB repair; AtPOL2A mutation (abo4-2) and ...
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Do settlement dynamics influence competitive interactions between an alien tunicate and its native congener?
... Throughout the study, the same trend observed for juveniles was observed between adults of the two species sampled in 2014 in the three marinas where both species were present[r] ...
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Preference and Prey Switching in a Generalist Predator Attacking Local and Invasive Alien Pests
... We studied the predation behavior of the generalist mirid bug Macrolophus pygmaeus Rambur (Heteroptera: Miridae) feeding on two prey species, the local tomato pest Bemisia tabaci biotype Q (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: ...
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Plant Volatiles Analysis
... In the first chapter, the methodological ap- proaches developed for the detailed investigation of the qualitative and quantitative changes in the release of odoriferous volatiles by the plant under particular ...
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Reshaping Plant Biology: Qualitative and Quantitative Descriptors for Plant Morphology
... of plant architecture has been Lindenmayer (L)- systems ( Lindenmayer, 1968 ; Prusinkiewicz, 1986 ...(i.e., plant component) transforms over ...of plant architecture data at different spatial and ...
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Patterns of hybridization and hybrid survival in the invasive alien Fallopia complex (Polygonaceae)
... Aims -- The present study examined landscape scale patterns of interspecific hybridization within the alien invasive Fallopia complex, and tested whether cold winter might act as selective agent for hybrid ...
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Tracking Invasive Alien Species (TrIAS): Building a data-driven framework to inform policy
... TASK 3.2 - Development of indicators for biological invasions in Belgium Once the relevant indicators for invasion have been defined, TrIAS will develop threshold values for each, allowing us to detect important changes ...
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Functional-Structural Plant modelling
... Gene sequences identified through large-scale EST sequencing, using targeted cDNA discovery methods such as suppressive subtractive hybridization (SSH), or based upon the poplar genome sequence, are now being used in ...
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Root-emitted volatile organic compounds: can they mediate belowground plant-plant interactions?
... siblings (Biedrzycki et al. 2010). In a greenhouse exper- iment designed to mimic soil natural conditions (compo- sition, microbial activity and exudate concentration), Semchenko et al. (2014) found that root exudates ...
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Morphological Plant Modeling: Unleashing Geometric and Topological Potential within the Plant Sciences
... To illustrate the challenges of multi-scale modeling, we highlight an example that encompasses molecular and cellular scales. At the molecular scale, models can treat some biomolecules as diffusive, but others, such as ...
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Virus epidemics, plant-controlled population bottlenecks and the durability of plant resistance
... even without combining it with a quantitative resistance, as it typically requires the virus to accumulate numerous mutations associated with high fitness costs in S plants [24]. Such highly durable qualitative ...
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Plant biology in space
... Kordyum (2014) provides a short overview on the effects of real and simulated microgravity on cell components, including statolith positioning, mitochondria, tubulin and the endoplas- mic reticulum. Although significant ...
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