High tolerance to salinity and herbivory stresses may explain the expansion of Ipomoea cairica to salt marshes.

Invasive plants are often confronted with heterogeneous environments and various stress factors during their secondary phase of invasion into more stressful habitats. A high tolerance to stress factors may allow exotics to successfully invade stressful environments. Ipomoea cairica, a vigorous invad...

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Main Authors: Gang Liu, Qiao-Qiao Huang, Zhen-Guang Lin, Fang-Fang Huang, Hui-Xuan Liao, Shao-Lin Peng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3499518?pdf=render