[APWG] NEWS: Will climate change hasten the spread of invasive plants?
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Wed Jan 5 07:58:23 CST 2011
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.
See the link above for the full article text.
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