Threatened Or Invasive? Species' Fates Identified
Friday, June 13, 2008 - 09:35
in Biology & Nature
A new ecological study should help identify species prone to extinction under environmental change, and species that are likely to become a pest. The researchers analysed life-history and ecological traits in more than 8900 species of the legume, or the Fabaceae plant family, and found a correlation between evolved species' traits and a particular susceptibility to a species becoming threatened or invasive.