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Chen P, Shen C, Tao Z, Qin W, Huang W, Siemann E. Deterministic responses of biodiversity to climate change through exotic species invasions. NATURE PLANTS 2024:10.1038/s41477-024-01797-7. [PMID: 39294455 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01797-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2024] [Accepted: 08/28/2024] [Indexed: 09/20/2024]
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Biodiversity is increasingly threatened by local extinction under global climate change. This may reflect direct effects of climate on poorly adapted native species or increased impacts of exotic species in these conditions, but their relative importance is poorly understood. By examining global occurrence records of 142 plant species found in the Yangtze River Valley, we found that the climatic niches of exotic species differed from those of natives, mainly reflecting exotics being most common in warmer, drier and more isothermal climates in their native ranges. These differences in climatic niches, especially temperature, predicted invasion intensity in 459 plots along a 1,800-km transect in the Yangtze River Valley. On the basis of this strong match between model predictions and field survey results, we predict that invasions will probably be more intense in future climatic conditions, especially from warming at the coldest sites. The direct negative effect of warming on native diversity was larger than the indirect effects mediated through increased invasions. However, moderate invasion increased communities' overall species diversity. More broadly, our study highlights the role of exotic species in the ecological response of regional biodiversity to global climate change.
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- Pengdong Chen
- Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Key Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Wetland Evolution and Ecological Restoration, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Key Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Wetland Evolution and Ecological Restoration, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
- Key Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Wetland Evolution and Ecological Restoration, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
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- Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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Sopniewski J, Catullo R, Ward M, Mitchell N, Scheele BC. Niche-based approach to explore the impacts of environmental disturbances on biodiversity. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY : THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 2024:e14277. [PMID: 38660923 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2023] [Revised: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 02/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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Globally, species are increasingly at risk from compounding threatening processes, an increasingly prominent driver of which is environmental disturbances. To facilitate effective conservation efforts following such events, methods that evaluate potential impacts across multiple species and provide landscape-scale information are needed to guide targeted responses. Often, the geographic overlap between a disturbance and species' distribution is calculated and then used as a proxy for potential impact. However, such methods do not account for the important influence of environmental heterogeneity throughout species' ranges. To address this shortcoming, we quantified the effects of environmental disturbances on species' environmental niche space. Using the Australian 2019 and 2020 Black Summer fires as a case study, we applied a niche-centric approach to examine the potential impacts of these fires on 387 vertebrate species. We examined the utility of established and novel niche metrics to assess the potential impacts of large-scale disturbance events on species by comparing the potential effects of the fires as determined by our various niche measures to those derived from geographic-based measures of impact. We examined the quality of environmental space affected by the disturbance by quantifying the position in niche space where the disturbance occurred (center or margin), the uniqueness of the environmental space that was burned, and the degree to which the remaining, unburned portion of the niche differed from a species' original prefire niche. There was limited congruence between the proportion of geographic and niche space affected, which showed that geographic-based approaches in isolation may have underestimated the impact of the fires for 56% of modeled species. For each species, when combined, these metrics provided a greater indication of postdisturbance recovery potential than geographic-based measures alone. Accordingly, the integration of niche-based analyses into conservation assessments following large-scale disturbance events will lead to a more nuanced understanding of potential impacts and guide more informed and effective conservation actions.
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- Jarrod Sopniewski
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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- WWF-Aus, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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European monitoring of genetic diversity must expand to detect impacts of climate change. Nat Ecol Evol 2024; 8:194-195. [PMID: 38225426 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02261-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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Pearman PB, Broennimann O, Aavik T, Albayrak T, Alves PC, Aravanopoulos FA, Bertola LD, Biedrzycka A, Buzan E, Cubric-Curik V, Djan M, Fedorca A, Fuentes-Pardo AP, Fussi B, Godoy JA, Gugerli F, Hoban S, Holderegger R, Hvilsom C, Iacolina L, Kalamujic Stroil B, Klinga P, Konopiński MK, Kopatz A, Laikre L, Lopes-Fernandes M, McMahon BJ, Mergeay J, Neophytou C, Pálsson S, Paz-Vinas I, Posledovich D, Primmer CR, Raeymaekers JAM, Rinkevich B, Rolečková B, Ruņģis D, Schuerz L, Segelbacher G, Kavčič Sonnenschein K, Stefanovic M, Thurfjell H, Träger S, Tsvetkov IN, Velickovic N, Vergeer P, Vernesi C, Vilà C, Westergren M, Zachos FE, Guisan A, Bruford M. Monitoring of species' genetic diversity in Europe varies greatly and overlooks potential climate change impacts. Nat Ecol Evol 2024; 8:267-281. [PMID: 38225425 PMCID: PMC10857941 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02260-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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Genetic monitoring of populations currently attracts interest in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity but needs long-term planning and investments. However, genetic diversity has been largely neglected in biodiversity monitoring, and when addressed, it is treated separately, detached from other conservation issues, such as habitat alteration due to climate change. We report an accounting of efforts to monitor population genetic diversity in Europe (genetic monitoring effort, GME), the evaluation of which can help guide future capacity building and collaboration towards areas most in need of expanded monitoring. Overlaying GME with areas where the ranges of selected species of conservation interest approach current and future climate niche limits helps identify whether GME coincides with anticipated climate change effects on biodiversity. Our analysis suggests that country area, financial resources and conservation policy influence GME, high values of which only partially match species' joint patterns of limits to suitable climatic conditions. Populations at trailing climatic niche margins probably hold genetic diversity that is important for adaptation to changing climate. Our results illuminate the need in Europe for expanded investment in genetic monitoring across climate gradients occupied by focal species, a need arguably greatest in southeastern European countries. This need could be met in part by expanding the European Union's Birds and Habitats Directives to fully address the conservation and monitoring of genetic diversity.
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- Peter B Pearman
- Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa, Spain.
- IKERBASQUE Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain.
- BC3 Basque Center for Climate Change, Leioa, Spain.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Geopolis, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Science and Art Faculty, Department of Biology, Lab of Ornithology, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey
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- CIBIO-InBIO Laboratório Associado & Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências do Porto, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
- BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
- EBM, Estação Biológica de Mértola, Mértola, Portugal
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Forest Science and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Information Technologies, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
- Faculty of Environmental Protection, Velenje, Slovenia
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Department of Wildlife, National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry 'Marin Dracea', Brasov, Romania
- Department of Silviculture, Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Bavarian Office for Forest Genetics, Teisendorf, Germany
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- Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Center for Tree Science, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, USA
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
- Department of Environmental Systems Sciences D-USYS, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, Department of Biodiversity, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovak Republic
- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Zoology, Division of Population Genetics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Research in Anthropology, Lisbon, Portugal
- Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests, Lisbon, Portugal
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- UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Geraardsbergen, Belgium
- Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Institute of Silviculture, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
- Department of Forest Nature Conservation, Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Zoology, Division of Population Genetics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Faculty of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel
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- Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Genetic Resource Centre, Latvian State Forest Research Institute 'Silava', Salaspils, Latvia
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Forest Genetics, Physiology and Plantations, Forest Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Forest Ecology Unit, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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- Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Natural History Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Genetics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Geopolis, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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Xin Y, Yang Z, Du Y, Cui R, Xi Y, Liu X. Vulnerability of protected areas to future climate change, land use modification, and biological invasions in China. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : A PUBLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2024; 34:e2831. [PMID: 36860184 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Revised: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Anthropogenic climate change, land use modifications, and alien species invasions are major threats to global biodiversity. Protected areas (PAs) are regarded as the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation, however, few studies have quantified the vulnerability of PAs to these global change factors together. Here, we overlay the risks of climate change, land use change, and alien vertebrate establishment within boundaries of a total of 1020 PAs with different administrative levels in China to quantify their vulnerabilities. Our results show that 56.6% of PAs will face at least one stress factor, and 21 PAs are threatened under the highest risk with three stressors simultaneously. PAs designed for forest conservation in Southwest and South China are most sensitive to the three global change factors. In addition, wildlife and wetland PAs are predicted to mainly experience climate change and high land use anthropogenetic modifications, and many wildlife PAs can also provide suitable habitats for alien vertebrate establishment. Our study highlights the urgent need for proactive conservation and management planning of Chinese PAs by considering different global change factors together.
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- Yusi Xin
- Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang, China
- School of Landscape and Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, Haidian, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang, China
- School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Haidian, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Zhang Z, Yang Q, Fristoe TS, Dawson W, Essl F, Kreft H, Lenzner B, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Weigelt P, Winter M, Fuentes N, Kartesz JT, Nishino M, van Kleunen M. The poleward naturalization of intracontinental alien plants. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadi1897. [PMID: 37792943 PMCID: PMC10550228 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi1897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2023] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 10/06/2023]
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Plant introductions outside their native ranges by humans have led to substantial ecological consequences. While we have gained considerable knowledge about intercontinental introductions, the distribution and determinants of intracontinental aliens remain poorly understood. Here, we studied naturalized (i.e., self-sustaining) intracontinental aliens using native and alien floras of 243 mainland regions in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia. We revealed that 4510 plant species had intracontinental origins, accounting for 3.9% of all plant species and 56.7% of all naturalized species in these continents. In North America and Europe, the numbers of intracontinental aliens peaked at mid-latitudes, while the proportion peaked at high latitudes in Europe. Notably, we found predominant poleward naturalization, primarily due to larger native species pools in low-latitudes. Geographic and climatic distances constrained the naturalization of intracontinental aliens in Australia, Europe, and North America, but not in South America. These findings suggest that poleward naturalizations will accelerate, as high latitudes become suitable for more plant species due to climate change.
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- Zhijie Zhang
- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham, UK
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- Division of BioInvasions, Global Change & Macroecology, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Campus Institute Data Science, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Division of BioInvasions, Global Change & Macroecology, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Department of Invasion Ecology, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Department of Invasion Ecology, Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Campus Institute Data Science, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Departamento de Botánica, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
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- Biota of North America Program (BONAP), Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Biota of North America Program (BONAP), Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China
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Fristoe TS, Bleilevens J, Kinlock NL, Yang Q, Zhang Z, Dawson W, Essl F, Kreft H, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Weigelt P, Dufour-Dror JM, Sennikov AN, Wasowicz P, Westergaard KB, van Kleunen M. Evolutionary imbalance, climate and human history jointly shape the global biogeography of alien plants. Nat Ecol Evol 2023; 7:1633-1644. [PMID: 37652998 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02172-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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Human activities are causing global biotic redistribution, translocating species and providing them with opportunities to establish populations beyond their native ranges. Species originating from certain global regions, however, are disproportionately represented among naturalized aliens. The evolutionary imbalance hypothesis posits that differences in absolute fitness among biogeographic divisions determine outcomes when biotas mix. Here, we compile data from native and alien distributions for nearly the entire global seed plant flora and find that biogeographic conditions predicted to drive evolutionary imbalance act alongside climate and anthropogenic factors to shape flows of successful aliens among regional biotas. Successful aliens tend to originate from large, biodiverse regions that support abundant populations and where species evolve against a diverse backdrop of competitors and enemies. We also reveal that these same native distribution characteristics are shared among the plants that humans select for cultivation and economic use. In addition to influencing species' innate potentials as invaders, we therefore suggest that evolutionary imbalance shapes plants' relationships with humans, impacting which species are translocated beyond their native distributions.
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- Trevor S Fristoe
- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
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- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg, Biodiversity and Plant Systematics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham, UK
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- BioInvasions, Global Change, Macroecology Group, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL), University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL), University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Borgir vid Nordurslod, Akureyri, Iceland
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China
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García‐Rodríguez A, Lenzner B, Marino C, Liu C, Velasco JA, Bellard C, Jeschke JM, Seebens H, Essl F. Patterns and drivers of climatic niche dynamics during biological invasions of island-endemic amphibians, reptiles, and birds. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2023; 29:4924-4938. [PMID: 37395619 PMCID: PMC10946511 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2023] [Revised: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/04/2023]
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Shifts between native and alien climatic niches pose a major challenge for predicting biological invasions. This is particularly true for insular species because geophysical barriers could constrain the realization of their fundamental niches, which may lead to underestimates of their invasion potential. To investigate this idea, we estimated the frequency of shifts between native and alien climatic niches and the magnitude of climatic mismatches using 80,148 alien occurrences of 46 endemic insular amphibian, reptile, and bird species. Then, we assessed the influence of nine potential predictors on climatic mismatches across taxa, based on species' characteristics, native range physical characteristics, and alien range properties. We found that climatic mismatch is common during invasions of endemic insular birds and reptiles: 78.3% and 55.1% of their respective alien records occurred outside of the environmental space of species' native climatic niche. In comparison, climatic mismatch was evident for only 16.2% of the amphibian invasions analyzed. Several predictors significantly explained climatic mismatch, and these varied among taxonomic groups. For amphibians, only native range size was associated with climatic mismatch. For reptiles, the magnitude of climatic mismatch was higher for species with narrow native altitudinal ranges, occurring in topographically complex or less remote islands, as well as for species with larger distances between their native and alien ranges. For birds, climatic mismatch was significantly larger for invasions on continents with higher phylogenetic diversity of the recipient community, and when the invader was more evolutionarily distinct. Our findings highlight that apparently common niche shifts of insular species may jeopardize our ability to forecast their potential invasions using correlative methods based on climatic variables. Also, we show which factors provide additional insights on the actual invasion potential of insular endemic amphibians, reptiles, and birds.
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- Adrián García‐Rodríguez
- Division of BioInvasions, Global Change and Macroecology, Department of Botany and Biodiversity ResearchUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Division of BioInvasions, Global Change and Macroecology, Department of Botany and Biodiversity ResearchUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Université Paris‐Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique EvolutionGif‐sur‐YvetteFrance
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- College of FisheriesOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
- Institute of HydrobiologyChinese Academy of SciencesWuhanChina
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- Instituto de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y Cambio ClimáticoUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico CityMexico
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- Université Paris‐Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique EvolutionGif‐sur‐YvetteFrance
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- Institute of BiologyFreie Universität BerlinBerlinGermany
- Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)BerlinGermany
- Berlin‐Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB)BerlinGermany
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research CentreFrankfurtGermany
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- Division of BioInvasions, Global Change and Macroecology, Department of Botany and Biodiversity ResearchUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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Lu M, Jetz W. Scale-sensitivity in the measurement and interpretation of environmental niches. Trends Ecol Evol 2023; 38:554-567. [PMID: 36803985 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Revised: 01/07/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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Species environmental niches are central to ecology, evolution, and global change research, but their characterization and interpretation depend on the spatial scale (specifically, the spatial grain) of their measurement. We find that the spatial grain of niche measurement is usually uninformed by ecological processes and varies by orders of magnitude. We illustrate the consequences of this variation for the volume, position, and shape of niche estimates, and discuss how it interacts with geographic range size, habitat specialization, and environmental heterogeneity. Spatial grain significantly affects the study of niche breadth, environmental suitability, niche evolution, niche tracking, and climate change effects. These and other fields will benefit from a more mechanism-informed choice of spatial grain and cross-grain evaluations that integrate different data sources.
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- Muyang Lu
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
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Ecological marginalization is widespread and increases extinction risk in mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2205315120. [PMID: 36623195 PMCID: PMC9934025 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2205315120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Human land-use results in widespread range change across taxa. Anthropogenic pressures can result in species' realized niches expanding, shifting, or contracting. Marginalization occurs when contraction constrains species to the geographic or ecological extremes of their historic niche. Using 4,785 terrestrial mammal species, we show that range contraction results in niche space and habitat diversity loss. Additionally, ecological marginalization is a common consequence of range contraction caused by human land use change. Remnant populations become located in the climatic and topographic extremes of their historic niche that are more likely to be at the periphery of their historic niche at greater distances from historic niche centroids. This ecological marginalization is associated with poor performance and increased extinction risk independent of geographic range loss. Range loss and marginalization may create a "double whammy" in vulnerable groups, such as large-bodied species and species with small geographical range size. Our results reveal a hitherto unrecognized conservation threat that is vital to incorporate into conservation assessment and management.
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Segura-Hernández L, Barrantes G, Chacón-Madrigal E, García-Rodríguez A. Species distribution models and climatic niche comparisons provide clues on the geographic origin of a spider invasion in the Americas. Biol Invasions 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-022-02904-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Omer A, Fristoe T, Yang Q, Razanajatovo M, Weigelt P, Kreft H, Dawson W, Dullinger S, Essl F, Pergl J, Pyšek P, van Kleunen M. The role of phylogenetic relatedness on alien plant success depends on the stage of invasion. NATURE PLANTS 2022; 8:906-914. [PMID: 35953709 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-022-01216-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Darwin's naturalization hypothesis predicts successful alien invaders to be distantly related to native species, whereas his pre-adaptation hypothesis predicts the opposite. It has been suggested that depending on the invasion stage (that is, introduction, naturalization and invasiveness), both hypotheses, now known as Darwin's naturalization conundrum, could hold true. We tested this by analysing whether the likelihood of introduction for cultivation, as well as the subsequent stages of naturalization and spread (that is, becoming invasive) of species alien to Southern Africa are correlated with their phylogenetic distance to the native flora of this region. Although species are more likely to be introduced for cultivation if they are distantly related to the native flora, the probability of subsequent naturalization was higher for species closely related to the native flora. Furthermore, the probability of becoming invasive was higher for naturalized species distantly related to the native flora. These results were consistent across three different metrics of phylogenetic distance. Our study reveals that the relationship between phylogenetic distance to the native flora and the success of an alien species changes from one invasion stage to the other.
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- Ali Omer
- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
- Department of Forest Management, University of Khartoum, North Khartoum, Sudan.
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- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Institute of Landscape and Plant Ecology (320a), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Campus-Institut Data Science, Göttingen, Germany
- Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL), University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL), University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham, UK
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- Division of Biodiversity Dynamics and Conservation, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- BioInvasions, Global Change, Macroecology-Group, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Invasion Ecology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Invasion Ecology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Department of Ecology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China
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Dickey JWE, Arnott G, McGlade CLO, Moore A, Riddell GE, Dick JTA. Threats at home? Assessing the potential ecological impacts and risks of commonly traded pet fishes. NEOBIOTA 2022. [DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.73.80542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Invasive alien species (IAS) are major drivers of global biodiversity loss, and the poorly regulated international pet trade is a source of emerging and future invaders. Predictions of the likely ecological impacts and risks of such IAS have been significantly enhanced in recent years with new metrics, which require application to many more actual and potential IAS. Hence, this study assesses the potential ecological impacts and risks of two readily available pet trade species: goldfish, Carassius auratus, a species with non-native populations worldwide; and white cloud mountain minnow, Tanichthys albonubes, a species with a limited invasion history to date. First, we compared the per capita feeding rates of these non-native species with two European trophically analogous natives – the stone loach, Barbatula barbatula, and the common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus – using the Comparative Functional Response method. Second, we used foraging experiments in conspecific pairs to determine synergistic, neutral or antagonistic intraspecific interactions. Third, we performed novel object experiments using the two pet trade species to assess boldness, a known “dispersal enhancing trait”. Goldfish had the highest maximum feeding rates of the four species, while white cloud mountain minnows had the lowest. Neutral interactions were observed for all four species in the paired foraging experiments, with goldfish having the highest consumption and white cloud mountain minnows having the lowest. Goldfish demonstrated greater boldness, being more active during the experimental trials and more likely to approach a novel object than white cloud mountain minnows. Further, combining maximum feeding rates, boldness and species availabilities from our survey of pet shops, we assessed the relative invasion risks (RIR) of the two non-natives. This highlighted goldfish as the higher risk and most worthy of management prioritisation, mirroring its more extensive invasion history. We propose that such metrics have potential to direct future IAS policy decisions and management towards the ever-increasing rates of biological invasions worldwide.
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Sopniewski J, Scheele BC, Cardillo M. Predicting the distribution of Australian frogs and their overlap with
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
under climate change. DIVERS DISTRIB 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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- Jarrod Sopniewski
- Macroevolution & Macroecology Research School of Biology The Australian National University Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia
- School of Biological Sciences The University of Western Australia Crawley Western Australia Australia
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- Macroevolution & Macroecology Research School of Biology The Australian National University Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia
- Fenner School of Environment and Society The Australian National University Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia
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- Macroevolution & Macroecology Research School of Biology The Australian National University Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia
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