Processes affecting altitudinal distribution of invasive Ageratina adenophora in western Himalaya: The role of local adaptation and the importance of different life-cycle stages

• Arunava Datta ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: arunava.datta@ufz.de

  Affiliation Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Theodor-Lieser-Straβe 4, Halle, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3134-491X

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• Ingolf Kühn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Theodor-Lieser-Straβe 4, Halle, Germany, Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Am Kirchtor 1, Halle, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, Leipzig, Germany

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• Mustaqeem Ahmad,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation High Altitude Biology, CSIR—Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur-, Himachal Pradesh, India

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• Stefan Michalski,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Theodor-Lieser-Straβe 4, Halle, Germany

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• Harald Auge

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Theodor-Lieser-Straβe 4, Halle, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, Leipzig, Germany

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