ArticleFrontiers in plant science2018
Is the Success of Plant Invasions the Result of Rapid Adaptive Evolution in Seed Traits? Evidence from a Latitudinal Rainfall Gradient.
Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed.
- The endomicrobiome and weed invasiveness in Mediterranean ecosystems worldwide.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Latitudinal clines in the phenology of floral display associated with adaptive evolution during a biological invasion.American journal of botany · 2025Article
- An Established Plant Invader May Still Benefit From Increasing Genetic Diversity-Insights From Artificial Populations in a Common Garden Experiment.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Seed Traits and Germination of Invasive PlantPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Role of Genetic Factors in the Differential Invasion Success of TwoFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Unraveling the Effects of Cold Stratification and Temperature on the Seed Germination of InvasiveFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Seed size, endosperm and germination variation in sexual and apomicticFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Geographic patterns of seed trait variation in an invasive species: how much can close populations differ?Oecologia · 2021Article
- Empirical support for the biogeochemical niche hypothesis in forest trees.Nature ecology & evolution · 2021Article
- Nutrient History Affects the Response and Resilience of the Tropical SeagrassFrontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Latitudinal and Longitudinal Trends of Seed Traits Indicate Adaptive Strategies of an Invasive Plant.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Home climate and habitat drive ecotypic stress response differences in an invasive grass.AoB PLANTS · 2020Article
- Seed morphology and sculpture of invasivePeerJ · 2020Article
- Editorial: Multiple Roles of Alien Plants in Aquatic Ecosystems: From Processes to Modelling.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Article
- Salt-tolerant native plants have greater responses to other environments when compared to salt-tolerant invasive plants.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Rapid changes in seed dispersal traits may modify plant responses to global change.AoB PLANTS · 2019Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
It has been widely suggested that invasion success along broad environmental gradients may be partially due to phenotypic plasticity, but rapid evolution could also be a relevant factor for invasions. Seed and fruit traits can be relevant for plant invasiveness since they are related to dispersal, germination, and fitness. Some seed traits vary along environmental gradients and can be heritable, with the potential to evolve by means of natural selection. Utilizing cross-latitude and reciprocal-transplant experiments, we evaluated the adaptive value of seed thickness as assessed by survival and biomass accumulation in
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.