[PCA] NEWS: Climate Change Opens New Avenue For Spread Of Invasive Plants

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081119161125.htm

Climate Change Opens New Avenue For Spread Of Invasive Plants

ScienceDaily (Nov. 19, 2008) -- Plants that range northward because of 
climate change may be better at defending themselves against local enemies 
than native plants.

So concludes a team of scientists including a University of Florida 
geneticist. The team's findings, reported online in the journal Nature, 
suggest that certain plants could become invasive if they spread to places 
that were previously too cold for them.

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