Pick it up, guys! Stop with the failing!

Increased plant size in exotic populations: a common-garden test with 14 invasive species
Ecology
D. M. Blumenthal and R. A. Hufbauer
2007

"The fact that exotic plants consistently grew larger [in a common garden] than native conspecifics only in the absence of competition, both supports the idea that exotic plants may evolve increased growth and suggests that increased growth may lead to adaptation to open, noncompetitive environments... In as much as these results indicate a general trend among exotic plant species, they suggest that genetic changes may be more likely to contribute to invasion of disturbed or eutrophied environments than of relatively undisturbed plant communities."

Another in my ongoing effort to read every relevant paper written by my collaborator.... I have a long way to go.