Is there evidence for the post‐invasion evolution of increased size among invasive plant species?

By A. Willis, J. Memmott, R. Forrester. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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THE EVOLUTION OF AN INVASIVE PLANT: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY WITH SILENE LATIFOLIA (2004, background): “Willis et al. (2000) found no differences in four plant species sampled from their native and introduced habitats.”
A biogeographical approach to plant invasions: the importance of studying exotics in their introduced and native range (2005, background): “other hand, Willis et al. (2000) grew four species of plants”
Do vigour of introduced populations and escape from specialist herbivores contribute to invasiveness? (2005, background): “These factors may produce a plastic response to a novel habitat (as suggested by Willis et al. 2000; but see Willis & Blossey 1999).”
Host range of Tetramesa romana Walker (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae), a potential biological control of giant reed, Arundo donax L. in North America (2009, background): “…weed are not completely understood (Muller and Steinger, 2004; Pratt and Black, 2006), adaptation to climatic conditions (Rice and Mack, 1991; Willis et al., 2000), land and water management practices that facilitate invasion (Lite and Stromberg, 2005), and lack of coevolved herbivores…”
Cultivar selection prior to introduction may increase invasiveness: evidence from Ardisia crenata (2006, background): “However, many other invasive plants fail to show such ecotypic differences between the native and introduced ranges (Willis et al. 2000; Thebaud and Simberloff 2001; van Kleunen and Schmid 2003; Vila et al. 2003; Bossdorf et al. 2004).”
NO EVIDENCE FOR AN EVOLUTIONARY INCREASED COMPETITIVE ABILITY IN AN INVASIVE PLANT (2003, result): “Our results and the ones of a study on Carduus nutans, Digitalis purpurea, Senecio jacobaea, and Echium vulgare (Willis et al. 2000), however, show that the EICA-hypothesis does not generally hold.”
Rethinking the common garden in invasion research. (2009, result): “2B; e.g., Willis et al., 2000; van Kleunen and Schmid, 2003) and findings contradicting the hypothesis (Garden A in Fig.”
Comparison of native and invasive Rhododendron ponticum populations: Growth, reproduction and morpho (2004, background): “Ultimately, this matter can only be answered by reciprocal transplant experiments (Bruelheide 1999; Willis et al. 2000).”
Rapid Evolutionary Change and the Coexistence of Species (2011, background): “As biodiversity declines at both the species (Pimm & Raven 2000, Wilson et al. 2007) and genetic levels (Geburek & Konrad 2008, Ledig 1992, Ouborg et al. 2006), understanding the mechanisms that promote diversity becomes increasingly important.”
Rethinking plant community theory (2004, background): “We may turn to trophic levels for explanations, and certainly the release from natural enemies is a crucial component of invasive plant success as illustrated by the success of some biocontrol herbivores (Blossey and Notzold 1995, Adler 1999, Willis et al. 2000, Maron and Vila 2001).”