Running bamboo is notoriously fast spreading and difficult to remove. What keeps its population balanced in the wild, and prevents it from crowding out the competition? I tried googling, but was inundated with gardening advice, horror stories, and assault / offensive gardening (some of the latter two presumably covering the same incident from both sides). My google-fu failed, I couldn’t really find any info about natural population controls of running bamboo in the thicket of tall tales and gardening advice.
I have bamboo on the back corner of my property (two different types) and let me tell you that it is a never-ending war to keep it as a fairly thin line (it’s basically my privacy fence). On the plus side, it’s really good at holding the ground together, supposedly, which helps living in earthquakeland.
To add to the comments already posted; Some countries also have programs that combat invasive plant species. I once worked in such a program which removed invasive American trees in Europe.
probably because it needs to be artificially moved elsewhere, and unless it moves in large enough quantities it’s outcompeted
Himalayas and Siberia stops natural expansion, farmland essentially corner it, everywhere else it could grow is also already occupied
Same question for morning glory, blackberries, and every other kind of wildly spreading thing.
There is definitely some invasive bamboo in the forests near me that’s spreading and taking over the native habitat
