NMSU researcher leads team studying invasive plants
A New Mexico State University researcher led a team of scientists from around the world in a study aimed at understanding the impacts of invasive plant species.
The results of the study were recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Magda Garbowski, an assistant professor of restoration ecology in NMSU’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, completed the study as part of a USGS John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis working group. The group sought to clarify the missing link between plant invasions and associated changes in ecosystem functions by assessing how invasive species alter the functional traits of plant communities.
