[APWG] NEWS: Will climate change hasten the spread of invasive plants?

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.grist.org/article/2011-01-04-will-climate-change-hasten-the-spread-of-invasive-plants

Will climate change hasten the spread of invasive plants?
by Seth Shulman
4 Jan 2011 11:43 AM

When Bethany Bradley describes her research as probing the link between 
global warming and "alien invaders," as she did in a recent journal 
article, the reader may be understandably disconcerted, especially since 
Bradley's early graduate work involved mapping the surface of Mars. But 
rest assured: The alien invaders she studies today as a climate scientist 
and biogeographer at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, are 
nonnative plant species such as kudzu (Pueraria lobata), endemic through 
the southern U.S., and purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), which now 
clogs many of the nation's waterways and canals.

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