Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Demographic amplification is a predictor of invasiveness among plants

  • Kim Jelbert,
  • Danielle Buss,
  • Jenni McDonald,
  • Stuart Townley,
  • Miguel Franco,
  • Iain Stott,
  • Owen Jones,
  • Roberto Salguero-Gómez,
  • Yvonne Buckley,
  • Tiffany Knight,
  • Matthew Silk,
  • Francesca Sargent,
  • Simon Rolph,
  • Phil Wilson,
  • Dave Hodgson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13556-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Prior studies have examined fixed traits that correlate with plant invasiveness. Here the authors use a database of population matrices to compare demographic traits of invasive species in their native and invaded ranges, finding that demographic amplification is an important predictor of invasiveness.