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by Stuart Blackman

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

How invasive plants get that way

Email: Stuart Blackman - stuart.blackman@talk21.com
News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040220-01

20 February 2004

While most introduced species never become established, some “have just gone crazy [and] changed, from being nice guys—good citizens coexisting with other species—into these competitive monsters,” according to University of Montana plant ecologist Ragan Callaway. One secret to invasive species' success is a knack for manipulating soil organisms in their adoptive habitat to their own advantage, according to a paper by Callaway and colleagues in the February 19 Nature (Nature, 427:731-733, February 19, 2004).


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