Plants That Evolved Under High Phylogenetic Diversity Have Higher Invasion Success, Particularly in Undisturbed Communities

We show that species from phylogenetically diverse home ranges can colonise even undisturbed sites, highlighting evolutionary imbalance as a potentially influential driver of asymmetric invasion patt...

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Dynamics of biotic resistance to plant invasions

Biotic resistance, the reduction in invasion success caused by native communities, plays an important role in the long-term dynamics of biological invasions. A large body of empirical research on bio...

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Plant neighbours, not consumers, drive intraspecific phytochemical changes of two grassland species in a field experiment

Plants use chemicals to respond to consumers, competitors, and the wider environment. Most work has focused on consumers in driving the diversity of these

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Evidence for environmental filtering and limiting similarity depends on spatial scale and dissimilarity metrics

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides two seemingly contradictory hypotheses for explaining the success of biological invasions: (1) the pre-adaptation hypothesis posits that introduced speci....

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A global meta‐analysis of ecological functions and regulating ecosystem services of freshwater bivalves

Freshwater bivalves are globally distributed, diverse, and common in benthic communities. Many taxa, particularly in the most species-rich order, Unionida, are declining due to anthropogenic stressor...

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Lost in Space: When Spatial Scale Terms Blur Actual Study Size in Plant Community Ecology

Scale terms, which include both ecological (e.g., ‘local’, ‘regional’) and methodological (e.g., ‘plot’, ‘quadrat’) characteristics are frequently used in plant community ecology. We show that the ar...

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Multiple transitions to high l‐DOPA 4,5‐dioxygenase activity reveal molecular pathways to convergent betalain pigmentation in Caryophyllales

Many specialized metabolic pathways have evolved convergently in plants, but distinguishing multiple origins from alternative evolutionary scenarios can be difficult. Here, we explore the evolution .....

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Hawaiian caterpillar patrols spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts

Lepidoptera is the most herbivorous of all the insect orders, with predatory caterpillars globally comprising less than 0.13% of the nearly 200,000 moth and butterfly species. Here, we report a specie...

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Joshua Brian: Release from aboveground enemies increases seedling survival in grasslands

2024 HARPER PRIZE SHORTLIST: For the next two weeks, we are featuring the articles shortlisted for the 2024 Harper Prize. The Harper Prize is an annual award for the best early …

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A mechanistic framework of enemy release

The enemy release hypothesis as an explanation for (a) increased exotic performance is the product of (b) three factors, which are modulated by (c) seven contexts. Three factors: 1) the difference in...

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Pre‐ and postinfection priority effects have contrasting outcomes for parasite prevalence in host populations

Parasite species frequently co-occur more or less than expected by chance. These nonrandom co-occurrence patterns can be driven by pre- or postinfection priority effects: parasites are more or less l...

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Sampling mass mortality events to enable diagnoses: A protocol using freshwater mussels

Many taxa around the globe are threatened by often unexplained mass mortality events (MMEs), which can decimate populations and compromise key ecosystem functions. One example of a highly threaten...

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