Aspects of Invasiveness of Ludwigia and Nelumbo in Shallow Temperate Fluvial Lakes.

ABSTRACT: The relationship between invasive plant functional traits and their invasiveness is still the subject of scientific investigation, and the backgrounds of transition from non-native to invasive species in ecosystems are therefore poorly understood. Furthermore, our current knowledge on species invasiveness is heavily biased toward terrestrial species; we know much less about the influence of allochthonous plant traits on their invasiveness in aquatic ecosystems. In this paper, we present the results of a study on physiological and ecological traits of two introduced and three native macrophyte species in the Mantua lakes system (northern Italy). We compared their photophysiology, pigment content, leaf reflectance, and phenology in order to assess how the invasive Nelumbo nucifera and

SUBMITTER: Toth VR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6531864 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature