Favorable Climate Change Response Explains Non-Native Species' Success in Thoreau's Woods

Charles G. Willis; Brad R. Ruhfel; Richard B. Primack; Abraham J. Miller-Rushing; Jonathan B. Losos; Charles C. Davis

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008878

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Favorable Climate Change Response Explains Non-Native Species' Success in Thoreau's Woods

Charles G. Willis,

Affiliations Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Brad R. Ruhfel,

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Richard B. Primack,

Affiliation Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Abraham J. Miller-Rushing,

Affiliations USA National Phenology Network, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Jonathan B. Losos,

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Charles C. Davis

* E-mail: cdavis@oeb.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Favorable Climate Change Response Explains Non-Native Species' Success in Thoreau's Woods

Charles G. Willis,
Brad R. Ruhfel,
Richard B. Primack,
Abraham J. Miller-Rushing,
Jonathan B. Losos,
Charles C. Davis

Published: January 26, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008878

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