Do invasive plants have special strategies?

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Subir Bandyopadhyay

You can contact Dr Inderjit Singh

He works on invasive alien species of plants.

Arvind Singh

Dear Dr. Salem,

Please have a look at these PDF attachments.

Good luck

Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman

It's mostly growth rate and range. See: Invasive plants and their ecological strategies: prediction and explanation of woody plant invasion in New England, Diversity and Distributions, (Diversity Distrib.) (2007) 13, 633–644, DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00381.xbyDOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00381x

Salem Elshatshat

Subir, Arvind and Andrew...thanks a lot for these nice and helpful information.

Salem