Müller-Schärer Heinz, Schaffner Urs, Steinger Thomas
Département de Biologie, Unité Ecologie et Evolution, Université de Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2004 Aug;19(8):417-22. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2004.05.010.
Evidence is increasing that invasive plants can undergo rapid adaptive evolution during the process of range expansion. Here, we argue that evolutionary change during invasions will also affect plant-antagonist interactions and, thus, will have important implications for biological control programmes targeted at invasive plants. We explore how altered selection in the new range might influence the evolution of plant defence (resistance and tolerance) and life history. The degree to which such evolutionary processes might affect biological control efficacy is largely unexplored. We hope that, by testing the hypotheses that we propose here, a closer link can be established between biological control and evolutionary biology, to the benefit of both disciplines.
越来越多的证据表明，入侵植物在范围扩张过程中能够经历快速的适应性进化。在此，我们认为入侵过程中的进化变化也将影响植物与拮抗生物的相互作用，因此，对于针对入侵植物的生物防治计划具有重要意义。我们探讨了新分布范围内改变的选择如何可能影响植物防御（抗性和耐受性）以及生活史的进化。此类进化过程可能影响生物防治效果的程度在很大程度上尚未得到探索。我们希望，通过检验我们在此提出的假设，可以在生物防治与进化生物学之间建立更紧密的联系，从而使两个学科都受益。
