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Functional traits of alien plants across contrasting climatic and land-use regimes: do aliens join the locals or try harder than them

2010-01-01

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1 Two main views have been put forward to explain whether coexisting alien and resident plant species should show converging or diverging functional attributes. According to the 'try-harder' hypothesis, successful aliens should differ from resident species with traits that allow them to deal better with the local conditions than resident species. On the other hand, the 'join-the-locals' hypothesis stresses the imp...

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Literature Corpus work: b1290d57-e284-53fc-925a-80e2cccebc4e
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01592.x

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