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Invasive plants: the process within wetland ecosystems

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Invasive Plants: Ecological and Agricultural Aspects

Conclusions

Scientific understanding of the competitive capacities of invasive species is critical to effecting prevention, detection and rapid management responses to invasive species introductions. Many of the changes being imposed upon indigenous communities by invasive species offer direct evidence for the capacities of these advantaged plants to compete with native species. In some cases, anthropogenic alterations of environmental parameters, such as changes in atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and related climatic and hydrological changes, have both direct and indirect effects on facilitation of biological invasions [113–117]. Truly effective management skills emerge, however, when the underlying physiological and genetic control mechanisms are understood. In many cases, the inadvertent invasions of exotic species into natural communities provide useful experiments — their rigorous analyses and interpretations can effectively augment controlled experimental analyses at specific biochemical and genetic levels that are so essential to gain needed understanding.

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