Warming climate may negatively affect native forest understory plant richness and composition by increasing invasions of non-native plants

Martin Dovciak1, Jay Ward Wason III2, Jacqueline Frair1, Mark Lesser3 and Jeremy Hurst4, (1)SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States, (2)Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States, (3)Shepherd University, Department of Biology, Shepherdstown, WV, United States, (4)New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY, United States