An Evolutionary Approach to Understanding the Biology of Invasions: Local Adaptation and General‐Purpose Genotypes in the Weed Verbascum thapsus

By I. Parker, Josephine J. Rodriguez, M. Loik. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Latitudinal trends in growth and phenology of the invasive alien plant Impatiens glandulifera (Balsaminaceae) (2004, background): “Obviously, such experiments are prohibitive in invasive plants as they may hybridize and spread if not done in common gardens (Parker et al., 2003).”
Phenotypic plasticity rather than locally adapted ecotypes allows the invasive alligator weed to colonize a wide range of habitats (2007, positive): “Parker et al. (2003) suggested that both invasion process (e.g., number of introductions) and species characteristics (e.g., breeding systems) might influence the relative importance of the two strategies in a certain invasive species.”
Introduced species policy, management, and future research needs (2005, background): “Although some aspects of evolution, such as mutation, are basically random, others could potentially be predictable, for example the relationship between propagule number, genetic variability, and rate of evolution in response to selection (Parker et al. 2003).”
Quantitative estimation of phenotypic plasticity: bridging the gap between the evolutionary concept and its ecological applications (2006, background): “…to colonize environmentally diverse areas, a topic explored for more than three decades (e.g. Marshall & Jain 1968) and attracting increasingly more recent attention (Williams et al. 1995; Sexton et al. 2002; Niinemets et al. 2003; Parker et al. 2003; Peperkorn et al. 2005; Sharma et al. 2005).”
Quantifying plasticity in vessel grouping – added value from the image analysis tool ROXAS (2013, background): “Verbascum thapsus is considered a problematic invasive species (Kueffer et al. 2010), and it is known to show very high plasticity in aboveground growth patterns in response to environmental variability (Parker et al. 2003; Seipel et al. 2013).”
Invasion dynamics and potential spread of the invasive alien plant species Ageratina adenophora (Asteraceae) in China (2006, background): “The 1940–60 period can be classified as the arrival and establishment phase, i.e. lag phase (Kowarik, 1995; Crooks & Soulé, 1999; Parker et al., 2003).”
HOW INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION INFLUENCE CONTEMPORARY INVASION DYNAMICS (2004, background): “Parker et al. (2003) provide a possible example of the early stages of this process in their study of Verbascum thapsus along an elevation gradient in California.”
Saving camels from straws: how propagule pressure-based prevention policies can reduce the risk of biological invasion (2008, background): “range, it is possible that the genetic diversity of the introduced population will enable wider range occupation and/or greater range expansion (Parker et al. 2003).”
Invasive plants do not display greater phenotypic plasticity than their native or non-invasive counterparts: a meta-analysis (2011, neutral): “233, p 0.27), which indicates that the phylogenetic correction was homogeneous and hence it did not introduce confounding eff ects in the analysis. Finally, because a signifi cant proportion of the data was obtained from Godoy (2009) (Table 1) and it could introduce a bias in the outcome of the meta”
ADAPTATION VS. PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN THE SUCCESS OF A CLONAL INVADER (2005, background): “However, such a study does not necessarily demonstrate that plasticity vs. adaptation facilitates invasions (Parker et al. 2003).”
Understanding the establishment success of non-indigenous fishes: lessons from population genetics (2007, background): “studies on invasive species did not take evolutionary processes into consideration (Parker et al., 2003).”
The spatial spread of invasions: new developments in theory and evidence (2004, background): “However, Californian populations of Verbascum thapsus have expanded across a wide elevational gradient almost exclusively by phenotypic plasticity with little local adaptation (Parker et al. 2003).”
Predicting species distribution and abundance responses to climate change: why it is essential to include biotic interactions across trophic levels (2010, background): “The moving of the invasive weed Verbascum thapsus to higher elevations in the Sierra Nevada was probably due to ready-for-purpose genotypes rather than to rapid evolution (Parker et al. 2003).”
Ecological Genetics of Plant Invasion: What Do We Know? (2008, background): “In another example, Parker et al. (2003) used common-garden experiments to evaluate fitness traits in invasive populations of mullein (Verbascum thapsus) collected from different elevations.”