Effects of the invasive plant Xanthium strumarium on diversity of native plant species: A competitive analysis approach in North and Northeast China

• Mazher Farid Iqbal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mazher Farid Iqbal, Ming-Chao Liu, Aafia Iram

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Liaoning Key Laboratory for Biological Invasions and Global Changes, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0662-4634

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• Ming-Chao Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mazher Farid Iqbal, Ming-Chao Liu, Aafia Iram

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Liaoning Key Laboratory for Biological Invasions and Global Changes, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China

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• Aafia Iram ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mazher Farid Iqbal, Ming-Chao Liu, Aafia Iram

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Government of the Punjab Education Department, Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan

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• Yu-Long Feng

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

  * E-mail: fyl@syau.edu.cn

  Affiliation Liaoning Key Laboratory for Biological Invasions and Global Changes, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China

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