【🎉Latest accepted article】
Latitudinal variation in clonal #TraitCovariances underlies local adaptation of the invasive Spartina alterniflora at low latitudes in China

#BiologicalInvasion | #ClonalGrowth | #CommonGarden | #LatitudinalGradient | #Life_historyStrategies

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtag028

Huiyuan Cheng et al.
Latitudinal pattern of plant invasion driven by species diversity over phylogenetic distance

#BioticResistance | #DiversityResistance | #EnvironmentalFiltering | #InvasionEcology | #LatitudinalGradient

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf098

🔎 The changes of #CommunityInvasibility (CI) along #LatitudinalGradient and its key driving factors

Results:
1️⃣latitude⬆️, CI⬆️
2️⃣Climate ➡️ native species diversity ➡️ CI

#BioticResistance | #DiversityResistance | #EnvironmentalFiltering | #InvasionEcology

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf098

Yangping Guo et al. explored the latitudinal variation in #LeafFunctionalTraits of an invasive salt-marsh plant ( #Spartinaalterniflora ) and its relationship with #Growth performance.

#AdaptiveMechanism | #CommonGarden | #LatitudinalGradient

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf008

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Latitudinal pattern of plant invasion driven by species diversity over phylogenetic distance

#BioticResistance | #DiversityResistance | #EnvironmentalFiltering | #InvasionEcology | #LatitudinalGradient

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf098

Now available open access ahead of print!
Bracewell et al. find a latitudinal gradient in successional dynamics: tropics are highly stochastic, and temperate zones show clearer progression influenced by early colonizers. This reveals biogeographic variation in community development.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731905

#latitudinalGradient #successionalDynamics #tropics #temperate #biogeographicVariation

Excellent new paper from Kyle David finding evidence for a latitudinal gradient of polyploidy in animals. This is similar to what has been observed in plants for many years! Really wonderful! Also good to see our recently published Animal Chromosome Count Database used for the analyses!

#Polyploidy #Animals #Chromosomes #LatitudinalGradient

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214070119

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jeb.13884