Although R. ponticum is very long-lived, it was introduced 200 250 years ago, and there has been time for post-introduction evolutionary change.
As individuals from some of those field surveys were included in this common garden, it seems likely that these patterns are driven by environmental field conditions rather than post-introduction evolutionary change.
This may be a result of the phenotypic plasticity of the species (Chun 2011; Godoy et al. 2011), propagule pressure (the number of individuals released and the number of release events; Lockwood et al. 2005, but see Nuñez et al. 2011) and post-introduction evolutionary processes like inbreeding, drift, hybridization and response to novel selection pressures (Lee 2002; Prentis et al. 2008).
Evidence on the evolution of invasiveness in plants is still limited (Barrett et al. 2008; Prentis et al. 2008), but the consensus is that invasiveness in exotic species introduced outside their range can sometimes result from post-introduction evolutionary change (Schierenbeck and Ellstrand 2009).
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