%0 Journal Article
%T Warming Increases the Spread of an Invasive Thistle
%A Rui Zhang
%A Eelke Jongejans
%A Katriona Shea
%J PLOS ONE
%D 2012
%I Public Library of Science (PLoS)
%R 10.1371/journal.pone.0021725
%X Global warming and shifted precipitation regimes increasingly affect species abundances and distributions worldwide. Despite a large literature on species' physiological, phenological, growth, and reproductive responses to such climate change, dispersal is rarely examined. Our study aims to test whether the dispersal ability of a non-native, wind-dispersed plant species is affected by climate change, and to quantify the ramifications for future invasion spread rates.
%U http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0021725