Acknowledgements
This research was supported by the
U.S. Department of Energy; Office of Science, and Office of Biological
and Environmental Research award number DE-FG02-07ER644456; Minnesota
Agricultural Experiment Station MN-42-030 and MN-42-060; the Minnesota
Department of Natural Resources; College of Food, Agricultural, and
Natural Resources Sciences and Wilderness Research Foundation,
University of Minnesota; the NSF Biological Integration Institute
program (NSF-DBI 2021898); and funding provided by the Minnesota
Invasive Terrestrial Plants and Pests Center through the Minnesota
Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. Assistance with
experimental operation and data collection was provided by Karen
Rice-David, Kerrie Sendall and numerous interns who worked at the
project throughout the years. We also want to thank two anonymous
reviewers and editor for their expertise, which helped us to improve our
manuscript.Author Contribution
PBR, RAM and AS designed the study, RB and AS collected data, EEB and AS
modeled the data, PBR, RAM, EEB, and AS analyzed the data and drafted
the manuscript. All authors discussed and interpreted the results and
substantially contributed to the final manuscript.