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Reche VA, Buonocore Biancheri MJ, Cao LM, Del Carmen Suárez L, Ovruski SM, Kirschbaum DS, Garcia FRM, Gallardo FE. Survey on Drosophila suzukii and Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Drosophilidae, Tephritidae) and Associated Eucoilinae Species (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) in Northwestern Argentina. First Record of Dicerataspis grenadensis and Leptopilina boulardi as Parasitoids of D. suzukii. Neotrop Entomol 2024; 53:200-215. [PMID: 38228819 DOI: 10.1007/s13744-023-01112-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2024]
Abstract
The Southeast Asian-native Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae), also known as "spotted-wing Drosophila," is one of the most globally invasive agricultural species. Although D. suzukii is a pest spread throughout all the Argentinian fruit-growing regions, few information has been published on its impact on local fruit production. Parasitoid species associated with D. suzukii in Argentina belong to Pteromalidae (Chalcidoidea), Diapriidae (Diaprioidea), both attacking host pupae, and Figitidae (Cynipoidea), which attack host larvae. Nine Eucoilinae (Figitidae) species, belonging to Dicerataspis, Dieucoila, Euxestophaga, Ganaspis, Hexacola, and Leptopilina genera, have been associated with D. suzukii in Argentina. Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), commonly known as "medfly," is native to Africa and has a worldwide distribution, covering many tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions. In Argentina, C. capitata has been associated with several native hymenopterous parasitoids belonging to Braconidae (Ichneumonioidea), Eulophidae (Chalcidoidea), Pteromalidae, Diapriidae, and Figitidae families. Only two eucoline species, Ganaspis pelleranoi (Brèthes) and Leptopilina haywardi (Blanchard) have been related to medfly in Argentina. We report new trophic associations between the parasitoids Dicerataspis grenadensis Ashmead and Leptopilina boulardi (Barbotin, Carton and Kelner-Pillault) and D. suzukii, and between the parasitoid Odontosema albinerve Kieffer and C. capitata, after surveys conducted in Tucumán, northwestern Argentina. An annotated checklist and a taxonomic key of Eucoilinae associated with both invasive pests, in Argentina, are also provided.
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- Vanina Anadina Reche
- División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, UNLP, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Univ Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos y Biotecnología (PROIMI-CONICET), División Control Biológico, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina.
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- División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, UNLP, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Dirección de Sanidad Vegetal, Animal y Alimentos de San Juan (DSVAA)-Gobierno de La Provincia de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina
- CCT CONICET, San Juan, Argentina
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- Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos y Biotecnología (PROIMI-CONICET), División Control Biológico, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Famaillá, Famaillá, Tucumán, Argentina
- Cátedra Horticultura, Facultad de Agronomía, Zootecnia y Veterinaria, UNT, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina
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- Depto de Ecologia, Zoologia E Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Univ Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil
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- División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, UNLP, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Comisión Investigaciones Científicas Buenos Aires (CICPBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Lantschner V, Gomez DF, Vilardo G, Stazione L, Ramos S, Eskiviski E, Fachinetti R, Schiappacassi M, Vallejos N, Germano M, Villacide J, Grilli MP, Martinez G, Ahumada R, Estay SA, Dumois I, Corley J. Distribution, Invasion History, and Ecology of Non-native Pine Bark Beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in Southern South America. Neotrop Entomol 2024; 53:351-363. [PMID: 38236322 DOI: 10.1007/s13744-023-01125-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2024]
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The growth of international trade, coupled with an expansion of large-scale pine plantations in South America during the second half of the twentieth century, has significantly increased the opportunities for the invasion of forest insects. Bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) are a large and diverse group of insects, commonly recognized as one of the most important tree mortality agents in coniferous forests worldwide and an important group among invasive forest species. In this study, we combined data from field sampling with published records of established non-native pine bark beetles, to describe their distribution and invasion history in pine plantations across southern South America, reviewing the available information on their phenology and host range. We obtained records of established populations of six Eurasian species distributed in two major regions: the southwest region comprises plantations in Chile and the Argentine Patagonia, with four bark beetle species: Hylastes ater, Hylastes linearis, Hylurgus ligniperda, and Orthotomicus laricis; the northeastern zone includes northeastern Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil, and includes three bark beetle species: Cyrtogenius luteus, H. ligniperda, and O. erosus. The establishment of non-native populations across the study area began in the 1950s, and from the 1980s onwards, there has been an exponential increase in introductions. We predict that several of these species will continue spreading across South America and that new species will continue arriving. We highlight the importance of international collaboration for early detection and management of non-native pine bark beetles.
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- Victoria Lantschner
- Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos, Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche, INTA EEA Bariloche - CONICET, Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina.
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- Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos, Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche, INTA EEA Bariloche - CONICET, Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos, Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche, INTA EEA Bariloche - CONICET, Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Concordia, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina
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- Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Montecarlo, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Montecarlo, Misiones, Argentina
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- Centro de Relevamiento y Evaluación de Recursos Agrícolas y Naturales (IMBIV), CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos, Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche, INTA EEA Bariloche - CONICET, Campo Forestal General San Martín, Lago Puelo, Chubut, Argentina
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- Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos, Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche, INTA EEA Bariloche - CONICET, Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Centro de Relevamiento y Evaluación de Recursos Agrícolas y Naturales (IMBIV), CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Tacuarembó, Uruguay
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- Bioforest - Arauco, Silviculture and Forest Health Division, Concepción, Chile
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- Universidad Austral de Chile, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Valdivia, Chile
- Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Entomología, Laboratorio Vegetal, SENASA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos, Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche, INTA EEA Bariloche - CONICET, Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
- Departamento de Ecología, CRUB, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Bariloche, Argentina
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Vilizzi L, Piria M, Pietraszewski D, Giannetto D, Flory SL, Herczeg G, Sermenli HB, Britvec M, Jukoniene I, Petrulaitis L, Vitasović-Kosić I, Almeida D, Al-Wazzan Z, Bakiu R, Boggero A, Chaichana R, Dashinov D, De Zoysa M, Gilles AS, Goulletquer P, Interesova E, Kopecký O, Koutsikos N, Koyama A, Kristan P, Li S, Lukas J, Moghaddas SD, Monteiro JG, Mumladze L, Oh C, Olsson KH, Pavia RT, Perdikaris C, Pickholtz R, Preda C, Ristovska M, Švolíková KS, Števove B, Ta KAT, Uzunova E, Vardakas L, Verreycken H, Wei H, Yoğurtçuoğlu B, Ferincz Á, Kirkendall LR, Marszał L, Paganelli D, Stojchevska C, Tarkan AS, Yazlık A. Development and application of a second-generation multilingual tool for invasion risk screening of non-native terrestrial plants. Sci Total Environ 2024; 917:170475. [PMID: 38296092 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2023] [Revised: 01/24/2024] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/03/2024]
Abstract
Under the increasing threat to native ecosystems posed by non-native species invasions, there is an urgent need for decision support tools that can more effectively identify non-native species likely to become invasive. As part of the screening (first step) component in non-native species risk analysis, decision support tools have been developed for aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Amongst these tools is the Weed Risk Assessment (WRA) for screening non-native plants. The WRA has provided the foundations for developing the first-generation WRA-type Invasiveness Screening Kit (ISK) tools applicable to a range of aquatic species, and more recently for the second-generation ISK tools applicable to all aquatic organisms (including plants) and terrestrial animals. Given the most extensive usage of the latter toolkits, this study describes the development and application of the Terrestrial Plant Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (TPS-ISK). As a second-generation ISK tool, the TPS-ISK is a multilingual turnkey application that provides several advantages relative to the WRA: (i) compliance with the minimum standards against which a protocol should be evaluated for invasion process and management approaches; (ii) enhanced questionnaire comprehensiveness including a climate change component; (iii) provision of a level of confidence; (iv) error-free computation of risk scores; (v) multilingual support; (vi) possibility for across-study comparisons of screening outcomes; (vii) a powerful graphical user interface; (viii) seamless software deployment and accessibility with improved data exchange. The TPS-ISK successfully risk-ranked five representative sample species for the main taxonomic groups supported by the tool and ten angiosperms previously screened with the WRA for Turkey. The almost 20-year continuous development and evolution of the ISK tools, as opposed to the WRA, closely meet the increasing demand by scientists and decision-makers for a reliable, comprehensive, updatable and easily deployable decision support tool. For terrestrial plant screening, these requirements are therefore met by the newly developed TPS-ISK.
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- Lorenzo Vilizzi
- University of Lodz, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, 90-237 Lodz, Poland; University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries, Apiculture, Wildlife Management and Special Zoology, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- University of Lodz, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, 90-237 Lodz, Poland; University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries, Apiculture, Wildlife Management and Special Zoology, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
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- University of Lodz, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, 90-237 Lodz, Poland; University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries, Apiculture, Wildlife Management and Special Zoology, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, 48000 Muğla, Turkiye
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32601, USA
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- Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Institute of Biology, ELTE-Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter ave 1/C, Budapest 1117, Hungary; HUN-REN-ELTE-MTM Integrative Ecology Research Group, Pázmány Péter ave 1/C, Budapest 1117, Hungary
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, 48000 Muğla, Turkiye
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- University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Botany, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Nature Research Centre, Institute of Botany, 12200 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Nature Research Centre, Institute of Botany, 12200 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Botany, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Urbanización Montepríncipe, 28668 Boadilla del Monte, Spain
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- Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Agricultural University of Tirana, Tirana 1000, Albania; Albanian Center for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development, Tirana 1000, Albania
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- National Research Council-Water Research Institute (CNR-IRSA), 28922 Verbania Pallanza, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Technology and Management, Faculty of Environment, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
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- Department of General and Applied Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- College of Veterinary Medicine and Research, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences, The Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, 1008, Metro Manila, Philippines
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- Scientific Direction, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), 44311 Nantes, France
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- Tomsk State University, Tomsk 634050, Russia; Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Novosibirsk Branch of Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00 Praha, Czechia
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources & Inland Waters, Anavissos PO 19013, Attica, Greece
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- Fishery Research Laboratory, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 811-3304, Japan
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- University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries, Apiculture, Wildlife Management and Special Zoology, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Natural History Research Center, Shanghai Natural History Museum, Branch of Shanghai Science & Technology Museum, Shanghai 200041, China
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- Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, 12587 Berlin, Germany; Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biodiversity and Ecosystems Management, Environmental Sciences Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, 1983963113 Tehran, Iran
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Madeira, 9000-072 Funchal, Portugal; MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Regional Agency for the Development of Research (ARDITI), 9000-072 Funchal, Portugal
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- Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi 0162, Georgia
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- Jeju Bio Research Center, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Gujwa-eup, Jeju 63349, Republic of Korea
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- School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel; The Inter-University Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Coral Beach, Eilat 8810302, Israel
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences, The Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, 1008, Metro Manila, Philippines
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- Department of Fisheries, Regional Unit of Thesprotia, Region of Epirus, 46 100 Igoumenitsa, Greece
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- Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Ovidius University of Constanta, Constanta 900470, Romania
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- Institute of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, 842 15 Mlynská dolina, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, 842 15 Mlynská dolina, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Agency, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, 10 Ton That Thuyet, Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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- Department of General and Applied Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources & Inland Waters, Anavissos PO 19013, Attica, Greece
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- Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), B-1630 Linkebeek, Belgium
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- Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Aquatic Invasive Alien Species, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Key Laboratory of Alien Species and Ecological Security, Chinese Academy of Fisheries Science, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510380, PR China
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- Hydrobiology Section, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hacettepe University, Çankaya-Ankara 06800, Turkiye
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- Department of Freshwater Fish Ecology, Institute of Aquaculture and Environmental Safety, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő 2100, Hungary
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- University of Lodz, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Institute of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia
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- University of Lodz, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, 90-237 Lodz, Poland; Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Fisheries, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, 48000 Muğla, Turkiye; Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Poole BH12 5BB, Dorset, UK
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- Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Düzce University, 81620 Düzce, Turkiye
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Soto I, Balzani P, Oficialdegui FJ, Molinero C, Kouba A, Ahmed DA, Turbelin AJ, Hudgins EJ, Bodey TW, Gojery SA, Courchamp F, Cuthbert RN, Haubrock PJ. The wild cost of invasive feral animals worldwide. Sci Total Environ 2024; 912:169281. [PMID: 38101642 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2023] [Revised: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/09/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
Abstract
Invasive non-native species are a growing burden to economies worldwide. While domesticated animals (i.e. livestock, beasts of burden or pets) have enabled our ways of life and provide sustenance for countless individuals, they may cause substantial impacts when they escape or are released (i.e. become feral) and then become invasive with impacts. We used the InvaCost database to evaluate monetary impacts from species in the Domestic Animal Diversity Information System database. We found a total cost of $141.95 billion from only 18 invasive feral species. Invasive feral livestock incurred the highest costs at $90.03 billion, with pets contributing $50.93 billion and beasts of burden having much lower costs at $0.98 billion. Agriculture was the most affected sector at $80.79 billion, followed by the Environment ($43.44 billion), and Authorities-Stakeholders sectors ($5.52 billion). Damage costs comprised the majority ($124.94 billion), with management and mixed damage-management costs making up the rest ($9.62 and $7.38 billion, respectively). These economic impacts were observed globally, where Oceania, North America and Europe were the most impacted regions. Islands recorded a higher economic burden than continental areas, with livestock species dominating costs more on islands than mainlands compared to other feral species. The costs of invasive feral animals were on average twice higher than those of wild species. The management of invasive feral populations requires higher investment, updated regulations, and comprehensive risk assessments. These are especially complex when considering the potential conflicts arising from interventions with species that have close ties to humans. Effective communication to raise public awareness of the impacts of feral populations and appropriate legislation to prevent or control such invasive feral populations will substantially contribute to minimizing their socioeconomic and environmental impacts.
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- Ismael Soto
- University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Centre of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Zátiší 728/II, 389 25 Vodňany, Czech Republic.
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- University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Centre of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Zátiší 728/II, 389 25 Vodňany, Czech Republic
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- University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Centre of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Zátiší 728/II, 389 25 Vodňany, Czech Republic
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- University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Centre of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Zátiší 728/II, 389 25 Vodňany, Czech Republic
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- Center for Applied Mathematics and Bioinformatics, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Hawally, Kuwait
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique Evolution, 91190, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa K1S 5B6, Canada; School of Agriculture, Food, and Ecosystem Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique Evolution, 91190, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT9 5DL, United Kingdom
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- University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Centre of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Zátiší 728/II, 389 25 Vodňany, Czech Republic; Center for Applied Mathematics and Bioinformatics, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Hawally, Kuwait; Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Gelnhausen, Germany
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Andraca-Gómez G, Ordano M, Lira-Noriega A, Osorio-Olvera L, Domínguez CA, Fornoni J. Climatic and soil characteristics account for the genetic structure of the invasive cactus moth Cactoblastis cactorum, in its native range in Argentina. PeerJ 2024; 12:e16861. [PMID: 38361769 PMCID: PMC10868523 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.16861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024] Open
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Background Knowledge of the physical and environmental conditions that may limit the migration of invasive species is crucial to assess the potential for expansion outside their native ranges. The cactus moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, is native to South America (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil) and has been introduced and invaded the Caribbean and southern United States, among other regions. In North America there is an ongoing process of range expansion threatening cacti biodiversity of the genus Opuntia and the commercial profits of domesticated Opuntia ficus-indica. Methods To further understand what influences the distribution and genetic structure of this otherwise important threat to native and managed ecosystems, in the present study we combined ecological niche modeling and population genetic analyses to identify potential environmental barriers in the native region of Argentina. Samples were collected on the host with the wider distribution range, O. ficus-indica. Results Significant genetic structure was detected using 10 nuclear microsatellites and 24 sampling sites. At least six genetic groups delimited by mountain ranges, salt flats and wetlands were mainly located to the west of the Dry Chaco ecoregion. Niche modeling supports that this region has high environmental suitability where the upper soil temperature and humidity, soil carbon content and precipitation were the main environmental factors that explain the presence of the moth. Environmental filters such as the upper soil layer may be critical for pupal survival and consequently for the establishment of populations in new habitats, whereas the presence of available hosts is a necessary conditions for insect survival, upper soil and climatic characteristics will determine the opportunities for a successful establishment.
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- Guadalupe Andraca-Gómez
- Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, México
- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, México
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- CONICET-UNT, Fundación Miguel Lillo-Instituto de Ecología Regional, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina
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- Instituto de Ecología, A.C., CONAHCYT Research Fellow, Xalapa, Veracrúz, México
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- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, México
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- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, México
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- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, México
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Camargo-Martinez ND, Camacho-Erazo M, Amarillo-Suárez AR, Herrera HW, Sarmiento CE. Morphologic Differentiation of the Exotic Parasitoid Eupelmus pulchriceps (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae) in the Galapagos Archipelago. Neotrop Entomol 2024; 53:140-153. [PMID: 38133733 PMCID: PMC10834596 DOI: 10.1007/s13744-023-01097-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/26/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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The historical and geographical properties of the archipelagos allow a detailed study of species diversification, and phenotypic traits can indicate the extent of such processes. Eupelmus pulchriceps (Cameron, 1904) is an exotic species to the Galapagos archipelago, and generalist parasitoid that attacks a beetle species that consumes the seeds of the invasive shrub Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit. Despite extensive sampling, the wasp is recorded only in Santa Cruz and San Cristobal islands of the Galapagos archipelago. Thus, using 112 female wasps, we compare body size, proportion, and allometric differentiations within and between the two islands. There were no body size differences between islands. A PerMANOVA indicates differences between the islands and a single differentiation between two localities of one island. Allometric differences between islands were not the same for all structures. These results are consistent with the greater distance between islands than between localities and suggest a differentiation process. The variables with allometric differentiation are associated with wings and ovipositor, possibly responding to different ecological pressures. It is interesting that this parasitoid, recently arrived at the archipelago, is already showing differentiation. Also, it is essential to monitor the behavior of these wasps in the archipelago, given their potential to access other species affecting the trophic interactions of the local biota.
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- Nicolas David Camargo-Martinez
- Lab de Sistemática y Biología Comparada de Insectos, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Univ Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Museo de Entomología, Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Chimborazo, Riobamba, Ecuador
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- Depto de Ecología y Territorio, Facultad de Estudios Ambientales y Rurales, Pontificia Univ Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Museo de Entomología, Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Chimborazo, Riobamba, Ecuador
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- Lab de Sistemática y Biología Comparada de Insectos, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Univ Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
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Hulme PE, Ahmed DA, Haubrock PJ, Kaiser BA, Kourantidou M, Leroy B, McDermott SM. Widespread imprecision in estimates of the economic costs of invasive alien species worldwide. Sci Total Environ 2024; 909:167997. [PMID: 37914135 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Revised: 10/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
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Several hundred studies have attempted to estimate the monetary cost arising from the management and/or impacts of invasive alien species. However, the diversity of methods used to estimate the monetary costs of invasive alien species, the types of costs that have been reported, and the spatial scales at which they have been assessed raise important questions as to the precision of these reported monetary costs. Benford's Law has been increasingly used as a diagnostic tool to assess the accuracy and reliability of estimates reported in financial accounts but has rarely been applied to audit data on environmental costs. Therefore, the distributions of first, second- and leading double-digits of the monetary costs arising from biological invasions, as reported in the InvaCost database, were compared with the null expectations under Benford's Law. There was strong evidence that the reported monetary costs of biological invasions departed considerably from Benford's Law and the departures were of a scale equal to that found in global macroeconomic data. The rounding upwards of costs appears to be widespread. Furthermore, numerical heaping, where values cluster around specific numbers was evident with only 901 unique cost values accounting for half of the 13,553 cost estimates within the InvaCost database. Irrespective of the currency, the value of 1,000,000 was the most common cost estimate. An investigation of anomalous data entries concluded that non-peer reviewed official government reports need to provide greater detail regarding how costs are estimated. Despite the undeniably high economic cost of biological invasions worldwide, individual records of costs were often found to be imprecise and possibly inflated and this emphasises the need for greater transparency and rigour when reporting the costs of biological invasions. Identifying whether the irregularities found for the costs of biological invasions are general for other types of environmental costs should be a research priority.
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- Philip E Hulme
- Bioprotection Aotearoa, Lincoln University, PO Box 85084, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
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- CAMB, Center for Applied Mathematics and Bioinformatics, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait
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- CAMB, Center for Applied Mathematics and Bioinformatics, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait; Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Clamecystr. 12, 63571 Gelnhausen, Germany; Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Zátiší 728/II, 389 25 Vodňany, Czech Republic
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- MERE, SEBE, University of Southern Denmark, Degnevej 14a, 6705 Esbjerg Ø, Denmark
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- MERE, SEBE, University of Southern Denmark, Degnevej 14a, 6705 Esbjerg Ø, Denmark; Université de Bretagne Occidentale, UMR 6308 AMURE, IUEM, 29280, Plouzané, France
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- UMR 8067, Biologie Des Organismes Et Écosystèmes Aquatiques (BOREA), Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Université de Caen Normandie, Université Des Antilles, CNRS, IRD, CP26, 43 Rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Economics, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78216, USA
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Macêdo RL, Haubrock PJ, Klippel G, Fernandez RD, Leroy B, Angulo E, Carneiro L, Musseau CL, Rocha O, Cuthbert RN. The economic costs of invasive aquatic plants: A global perspective on ecology and management gaps. Sci Total Environ 2024; 908:168217. [PMID: 37952653 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Revised: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 10/28/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023]
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Safeguarding aquatic ecosystems from invasive species requires a comprehensive understanding and quantification of their impacts, as this information is crucial for developing effective management strategies. In particular, aquatic invasive plants cause profound alterations to aquatic ecosystem composition, structure and productivity. Monetary cost assessments have, however, lacked at large scales for this group. Here, we synthesize the global economic impacts of aquatic and semi-aquatic invasive plants to describe the distributions of these costs across taxa, habitat types, environments, impacted sectors, cost typologies, and geographic regions. We also examine the development of recorded costs over time using linear and non-linear models and infer the geographical gaps of recorded costs by superimposing cost and species distribution data. Between 1975 and 2020, the total cost of aquatic and semi-aquatic invasive plants to the global economy exceeded US$ 32 billion, of which the majority of recorded costs (57 %) was attributable to multiple or unspecified taxa. Submerged plants had $8.4 billion (25.5 %) followed by floating plants $4.7 billion (14.5 %), emergent $684 million (2.1 %) and semi-aquatic $306 million (0.9 %). Recorded costs were disproportionately high towards freshwater ecosystems, which have received the greatest cost research effort compared to marine and brackish systems. Public and social welfare and fisheries were the sectors most affected, while agriculture and health were most underreported. Cost attributed to management (4.8 %; $1.6 billion) represented only a fraction of damages (85.8 %; $28.2 billion). While recorded costs are rising over time, reporting issues e.g., robustness of data, lack of higher taxonomic resolution and geographical gaps likely have led to a dampening of trajectories. In particular, invasive taxa currently occupy regions where monetary cost reports are lacking despite well-known impacts. More robust and timely cost estimates will enhance interpretation of current and future impacts of aquatic invasive plants, assisting the long-term sustainability of our aquatic ecosystems and associated economic activities.
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- Rafael L Macêdo
- Graduate Program in Ecology and Natural Resources, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Federal University of São Carlos, UFSCar, São Carlos, Brazil; Laboratoire d'Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, IDEEV, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany.
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- Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Gelnhausen, Germany; University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Zátiší 728/II, 389 25 Vodňany, Czech Republic; CAMB, Center for Applied Mathematics and Bioinformatics, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, IDEEV, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Graduate Program in Neotropical Biodiversity, Department of Ecology and Natural Resources, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ecología Regional, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán-CONICET, CC. 34, 4107 Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina
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- Unité Biologie des Organismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques (BOREA UMR 8067), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, Université de Caen Normandie, Université des Antilles, CNRS, IRD, Paris, France
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avda. Américo Vespucio 26, 41092 Seville, Spain
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation, Department of Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Paraná, UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Graduate Program in Ecology and Natural Resources, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Federal University of São Carlos, UFSCar, São Carlos, Brazil
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- Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT9 5DL, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Golivets M, Knapp S, Essl F, Lenzner B, Latombe G, Leung B, Kühn I. Future changes in key plant traits across Central Europe vary with biogeographical status, woodiness, and habitat type. Sci Total Environ 2024; 907:167954. [PMID: 37866591 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Revised: 10/17/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/24/2023]
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Many plant traits covary with environmental gradients, reflecting shifts in adaptive strategies and thus informing about potential consequences of future environmental change for vegetation and ecosystem functioning. Yet, the evidence of trait-environment relationships (TERs) remains too heterogeneous for reliable predictions, partially due to insufficient consideration of trait syndromes specific to certain growth forms and habitats. Moreover, it is still unclear whether non-native and native plants' traits align similarly along environmental gradients, limiting our ability to assess the impacts of future plant invasions. Using a Bayesian multilevel modelling framework, we assess TERs for native and non-native woody and herbaceous plants across six broad habitat types in Central Europe at a resolution of c. 130 km2 and use them to project trait change under future environmental change scenarios until 2081-2100. We model TERs between three key plant traits (maximum height, Hmax; specific leaf area, SLA; seed mass, SM) and individual environmental factors (7 climate variables and % urban land cover) and estimate trait change summed across all environmental effects. We also quantify the change in the average trait difference between native and non-native plants. Our models depict multiple TERs, with important differences attributed to biogeographical status and woodiness within and across habitat types. The overall magnitude of trait change is projected to be greater for non-native than native taxa and to increase under more extreme scenarios. Native woody plant assemblages may generally experience a future increase across all three traits, whereas woody non-natives may decline in Hmax and increase in SLA and SM. Herbaceous Hmax is estimated to increase and SLA to decrease in most habitats. The obtained trait projections highlight conditions of competitive advantage of non-native plants over natives and vice versa and can serve as starting points for projecting future changes in ecosystem functions and services.
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- Marina Golivets
- Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle, Germany.
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- Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle, Germany; Ecosystem Science/Plant Ecology, Department of Ecology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, 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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- Division of Bioinvasions, Global Change & Macroecology, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Bieler School of Environment, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle, Germany; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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Abeysinghe N, Guerrero AM, Rhodes JR, McDonald-Madden E, O'Bryan CJ. How success is evaluated in collaborative invasive species management: A systematic review. J Environ Manage 2023; 348:119272. [PMID: 37862887 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2023] [Revised: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/22/2023]
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Invasive species are one of the most pressing global challenges for biodiversity and agriculture. They can cause species extinctions, ecosystem alterations, crop damage, and spread harmful diseases across broad regions. Overcoming this challenge requires collaborative management efforts that span multiple land tenures and jurisdictions. Despite evidence on the importance and approaches to collaboration, there is little understanding of how success is evaluated in the invasive species management literature. This is a major gap, considering evaluating success is crucial for enhancing the efficacy of future management projects. To overcome this knowledge gap, we systematically reviewed the published literature to identify the stages at which success is evaluated - that is, the Process stage (collaborative management actions and Processes), Outputs stage (results of management actions to protect environmental, economic, and social values) and Outcomes stage (effects of Outputs on environmental, economic, and social values) of collaborative invasive species management projects. We also assessed what indicators were used to identify success and whether these evaluations vary across different characteristics of collaborative invasive species management. Our literature search detected 1406 papers, of which 58 met our selection criteria. Out of these, the majority of papers evaluated success across two stages (n = 25, 43.1%), whereas only ten (17.2%) papers evaluated success across all stages. Outputs were the most commonly evaluated stage (n = 40, 68.9%). The most widely used indicators of success for these stages included increased collaboration of stakeholders (Process stage), the number of captured/eradicated/controlled invasive species (Outputs stage) and change in biodiversity values, such as the number of threatened species (Outcomes stage). Most indicators of success were environmentally focused. We highlight the need to align the indicators of success and evaluation stages with the fundamental objectives of the projects to increase the effectiveness of evaluations and thereby maximise the benefits of collaborative invasive species management.
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- Nisansala Abeysinghe
- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
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- School of Architecture and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
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- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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Faria FS, Areal M, Bitner-Mathé BC. Thermal Stress and Adult Fitness in a Drosophila suzukii Neotropical Propagule. Neotrop Entomol 2023; 52:993-1004. [PMID: 37702970 DOI: 10.1007/s13744-023-01075-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/14/2023]
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Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura 1931) is a cosmopolitan horticultural pest originally from temperate East Asia; yet, its recent introduction in southeast and central Brazil raises the possibility it might expand into warmer climatic zones. In theoretical terms, the adaptive potential of invasive species can be impaired by the lack of genetic variation, but, on the other hand, phenotypic plasticity might play an important role in the adaptation to the new environment. In this context, we investigated the effects of temperature variation (18°C, 22°C, and 28°C) on fitness traits and size of male reproductive organs (accessory glands and testis) in a natural D. suzukii population recently introduced in the neotropical region. Development time decreased significantly with increasing temperature, but egg-to-adult survival was not affected, attaining rates around 50% for the three temperatures. Development at 28°C affected differentially adult male and female biological performance: males displayed higher mortality and severe and permanent reduction in offspring production, whereas females showed the same mortality as controls and a temporary decrease in offspring production, followed of a clear recovery. Finally, reproductive organs size in immature and mature males was affected by developmental temperature variation in the following ways. Testis length decreased with body size (i.e., at higher temperatures) and increased with maturation time after adult hatching, whereas for accessory glands there was no significant difference between different temperatures, resulting in proportionally larger glands for smaller body sizes. These results show differences in developmental dynamics of reproductive tract structures due to temperature variation.
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- Flavio Silva Faria
- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Romeo C, Filipe J, Wauters LA, Comazzi S, Riva F, Ferrari N. Shifts in immune responses of an invasive alien species: A test of the evolution of increased competitive ability hypothesis using American Eastern gray squirrels in Italy. Sci Total Environ 2023; 900:165747. [PMID: 37495139 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Revised: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
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Based on the Evolution of Increased Competitive Ability (EICA) hypothesis, a reduced investment in immunity, consequent to parasite loss, could partly explain the success of invasive alien species. We investigated variation in parasite load and immune responses of alien Eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) along the invasion wave of an expanding population. We first verified by fecal analyses that 1) parasite abundance decreased moving from the core towards the invasion front. Next, we used multiple measures of immunity to investigate whether, in response to the lower parasite pressure, individuals at the invasion front 2) dampened their costly inflammatory response, and 3) increased their investment in less expensive acquired immunity. We first explored variation in hematological variables related either to the inflammatory or the acquired response. On a subset of individuals, we carried out ex vivo cell cultures to analyse the basal expression of MHC class II genes and the expression of TNF-α genes in response to an immune challenge. Platelet counts and TNF-α expression suggested higher inflammation in individuals living at the invasion core, whereas parameters associated with an acquired response (lymphocyte counts and MHC II expression by spleen cells), conversely, were higher in squirrels at the front. Overall, our results suggest a shift between different immune strategies along the invasion wave, supporting a reduced investment in costly inflammatory responses and an increased investment in acquired immunity in individuals at the expanding edge of the range, which are subjected to high selective pressures for dispersal and reproduction.
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- Claudia Romeo
- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna, Via Bianchi 9, 25124 Brescia, Italy.
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Via dell'Università 6, 26900 Lodi, Italy
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- Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Environment Analysis and Management Unit - Guido Tosi Research Group, Via Dunant 3, 21100 Varese, Italy; University of Antwerp, Department of Biology - Evolutionary Ecology Group, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Via dell'Università 6, 26900 Lodi, Italy; Università degli Studi di Milano, WildlifeHealth Lab, Via dell'Università 6, 26900 Lodi, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Via dell'Università 6, 26900 Lodi, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Via dell'Università 6, 26900 Lodi, Italy; Università degli Studi di Milano, WildlifeHealth Lab, Via dell'Università 6, 26900 Lodi, Italy
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Cano-Barbacil C, Carrete M, Castro-Díez P, Delibes-Mateos M, Jaques JA, López-Darias M, Nogales M, Pino J, Ros M, Traveset A, Turon X, Vilà M, Altamirano M, Álvarez I, Arias A, Boix D, Cabido C, Cacabelos E, Cobo F, Cruz J, Cuesta JA, Dáder B, Del Estal P, Gallardo B, Gómez Laporta M, González-Moreno P, Hernández JC, Jiménez-Alfaro B, Lázaro Lobo A, Leza M, Montserrat M, Oliva-Paterna FJ, Piñeiro L, Ponce C, Pons P, Rotchés-Ribalta R, Roura-Pascual N, Sánchez M, Trillo A, Viñuela E, García-Berthou E. Identification of potential invasive alien species in Spain through horizon scanning. J Environ Manage 2023; 345:118696. [PMID: 37549639 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Revised: 07/17/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
Abstract
Invasive alien species have widespread impacts on native biodiversity and ecosystem services. Since the number of introductions worldwide is continuously rising, it is essential to prevent the entry, establishment and spread of new alien species through a systematic examination of future potential threats. Applying a three-step horizon scanning consensus method, we evaluated non-established alien species that could potentially arrive, establish and cause major ecological impact in Spain within the next 10 years. Overall, we identified 47 species with a very high risk (e.g. Oreochromis niloticus, Popillia japonica, Hemidactylus frenatus, Crassula helmsii or Halophila stipulacea), 61 with high risk, 93 with moderate risk, and 732 species with low risk. Many of the species categorized as very high or high risk to Spanish biodiversity are either already present in Europe and neighbouring countries or have a long invasive history elsewhere. This study provides an updated list of potential invasive alien species useful for prioritizing efforts and resources against their introduction. Compared to previous horizon scanning exercises in Spain, the current study screens potential invaders from a wider range of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine organisms, and can serve as a basis for more comprehensive risk analyses to improve management and increase the efficiency of the early warning and rapid response framework for invasive alien species. We also stress the usefulness of measuring agreement and consistency as two different properties of the reliability of expert scores, in order to more easily elaborate consensus ranked lists of potential invasive alien species.
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- Carlos Cano-Barbacil
- GRECO, Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, 17003, Girona, Spain.
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- Departamento de Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Ctra. de Utrera, km. 1, 41013, Seville, Spain
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- Biological Invasions Research Group (BioInv), Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, Pza. San Diego, s/n, 28801, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados (IESA-CSIC), Plaza Campo Santo de los Mártires, 7, 14004, Córdoba, Spain
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- Departament de Biologia, Bioquímica i Ciències Naturals, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, 12071, Castelló de la Plana, Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA-CSIC), Avda. Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez, 3, 38206, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Canarias, Spain
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- Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA-CSIC), Avda. Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez, 3, 38206, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Canarias, Spain
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- CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra, (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain; Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Edifici C. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain
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- Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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- Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (IMEDEA,CSIC-UIB), C/ Miquel Marquès, 21, 07190, Esporles, Mallorca, Illes Balears, Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología Marina, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), Accés a la Cala St. Francesc, 14, 17300, Blanes, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio 26, 41092, Sevilla, Spain; Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Sevilla, 41012, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum (CMN), Murcia, Spain
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- Real Jardín Botánico (RJB-CSIC), C/ Claudio Moyano 1, 28014, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas (Zoología), Universidad de Oviedo, 33071, Oviedo, Spain
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- GRECO, Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, 17003, Girona, Spain
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- Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi, Departamento de Herpetología, Calle Alto de Zorroaga 11, E-20014, San Sebastián, Spain
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- Hydrosphere - Environmental laboratory for the study of aquatic Ecosystems, 36331, Vigo, Spain
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- Departamento de Zooloxía, Xenética e Antropoloxía Física, Facultade de Bioloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain
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- Departament de Biologia, Bioquímica i Ciències Naturals, Universitat Jaume I, Av. Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, 12071, Castelló de la Plana, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (ICMAN-CSIC), 11519, Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
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- Unit of Crop Protection, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Unit of Crop Protection, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE), CSIC, Avda. Montañana 1005, 50192, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Animal, Edafología y Geología, Universidad de La Laguna, c/ Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez s/n, 38206, La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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- Biodiversity Research Institute IMIB (Univ. Oviedo-CSIC-Princ. Asturias), Mieres, Spain
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- Biological Invasions Research Group (BioInv), Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, Pza. San Diego, s/n, 28801, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain; Biodiversity Research Institute IMIB (Univ. Oviedo-CSIC-Princ. Asturias), Mieres, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología (Zoología), Universitat de les Illes Balears, Crta. Valldemossa, km. 7,5, 07122, Palma, Illes Balears, Spain
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- Institute for Mediterranean and Subtropical Horticulture "La Mayora"-UMA-CSIC, Avda Dr Weinberg s/n, 29750, Algarrobo-Costa, Malaga, Spain
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- Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum (CMN), Murcia, Spain
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- Animal Biology Lab & BioLand. Departament de Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Girona, 17003, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
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- CREAF, E08193 Bellaterra, (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Animal Biology Lab & BioLand. Departament de Ciències Ambientals, Universitat de Girona, 17003, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio 26, 41092, Sevilla, Spain
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio 26, 41092, Sevilla, Spain
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- Unit of Crop Protection, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), 28040, Madrid, Spain
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Gippet JMW, Bates OK, Moulin J, Bertelsmeier C. The global risk of infectious disease emergence from giant land snail invasion and pet trade. Parasit Vectors 2023; 16:363. [PMID: 37848903 PMCID: PMC10580515 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-023-06000-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/06/2023] [Indexed: 10/19/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Pathogen outbreaks mostly originate from animals, but some species are more likely to trigger epidemics. The giant land snail (Lissachatina fulica) is a widespread invader, a popular exotic pet, and a notorious vector of the rat lungworm, causing eosinophilic meningitis in humans. However, a comprehensive assessment of the risks of disease outbreak associated with this species is lacking. METHODS We assessed and mapped the risk of disease transmission associated with the invasion and pet trade of L. fulica. First, we conducted a review of the scientific literature to list all known L. fulica parasites and pathogens and query host-pathogen databases to identify their potential mammalian hosts. Then, to assess the potential for L. fulica to spread globally, we modelled its suitable climatic conditions and tested whether, within climatically suitable areas, the species tended to occur near humans or not. Finally, we used social media data to map L. fulica possession as an exotic pet and to identify human behaviours associated with increased risk of disease transmission. RESULTS Lissachatina fulica can carry at least 36 pathogen species, including two-thirds that can infect humans. The global invasion of L. fulica is climatically limited to tropical areas, but the species is strongly associated with densely populated areas where snails are more likely to enter in contact with humans. In temperate countries, however, climatic conditions should prevent L. fulica's spread. However, we show that in Europe, giant snails are popular exotic pets and are often handled with direct skin contact, likely increasing the risk of pathogen transmission to their owners. CONCLUSIONS It is urgent to raise public awareness of the health risks associated with L. fulica in both tropical countries and Europe and to regulate its trade and ownership internationally. Our results highlight the importance of accounting for multiple types of human-wildlife interactions when assessing risks of infectious disease emergence. Furthermore, by targeting the species most likely to spread pathogens, we show that it is possible to rapidly identify emerging disease risks on a global scale, thus guiding timely and appropriate responses.
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- Jérôme M W Gippet
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Association OPPAL - Chemin de la Cotze 26, 1941 Vollèges, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Davidovich N, Yasur-Landau D, Behar A, Pretto T, Scholz T. Invasive parasites and global change: Evidence for the recent and rapid spillover of a potential pathogen of tilapias with a complex, three-host life cycle. Heliyon 2023; 9:e18831. [PMID: 37674833 PMCID: PMC10477445 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Revised: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 09/08/2023] Open
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Biological invasions pose a serious threat to local flora and fauna and have negative impacts on ecosystems. Invasive parasites can also cause severe losses in aquaculture. In this article, we provide evidence of the recent spillover of an African parasite with a complex, three-host life cycle that has rapidly and successfully established itself in the Middle East, most likely due to the recent migration of its final hosts (great cormorant) from Africa. This case of parasite introduction into a country with intensive aquaculture is also important from an economic point of view, since large (up to 2 cm long) larvae of this parasite, the cyclophyllidean tapeworm Amirthalingamia macracantha (Cestoda) localised in the liver, can be pathogenic to their fish hosts, including farmed and wild fish, as shown by our histopathological examination of heavily infected fish. Since its first detection in Israel in November 2020, the parasite has spread rapidly and is currently found in both migratory (great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo) and non-migratory birds (pygmy cormorant, Microcarbo pygmaeus), as well as in fish intermediate hosts, including farmed tilapia in several farms in Israel and wild cichlids. There are numerous examples of the spillover of introduced parasites, including those that parasitise fish of commercial importance, but have a direct life cycle or use only a single intermediate host. Tilapines are the second most important group of farmed fish in the world after carps and are produced mainly in Southeast Asia, Central and South America. The global spread of great cormorants and the early evidence that pygmy cormorant may also harbour A. macracantha pose the risk of further spread of this invasive parasite to other countries and areas. In addition, global warming and reductions in foraging and resting areas near these waters may allow the parasite to complete its life cycle in new hosts.
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- Nadav Davidovich
- Israeli Veterinary Services and Animal Health, Fish Health, Bet Dagan, 5025001, Israel
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- Kimron Veterinary Institute, Division of Parasitology, Bet Dagan, 5025001, Israel
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- Kimron Veterinary Institute, Division of Parasitology, Bet Dagan, 5025001, Israel
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- Pretto, Tobia, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy
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- Scholz, Tomáš, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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del Río L, Navarro-Martínez ZM, Cobián-Rojas D, Chevalier-Monteagudo PP, Angulo-Valdes JA, Rodriguez-Viera L. Biology and ecology of the lionfish Pterois volitans/Pterois miles as invasive alien species: a review. PeerJ 2023; 11:e15728. [PMID: 37520263 PMCID: PMC10377442 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 06/18/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023] Open
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The lionfish is an exotic invasive fish native to the Indo-Pacific, which is established in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Lionfish can affect native fishes and invertebrates through direct predation or competition for food. The present review aims to analyze the most relevant characteristics of the biology and ecology of lionfish as an invasive alien species, with an emphasis on Cuba. We provide a current view of the well-known lionfish as a successful invasive fish, and we put in this context the information regarding lionfish in Cuban waters, enriching the background knowledge, and giving novel and relevant information. The compilation of numerous publications on the subject has allowed for a more complete analysis of essential aspects of this invader in the Cuban archipelago. The consulted literature records that the first report of lionfish in Cuba occurred in 2007; subsequently, sightings of lionfish were reported in numerous localities. In 2010, the lionfish was considered an invasive alien species, which currently is established in various habitats, at depths up to 188 m, throughout the Cuban archipelago (e.g., coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, submerged artificial structures). In addition, it has reached very high densities (12.42 ind./100 m2), which exceed those reported in the Indo-Pacific as well as in many locations in the Western Atlantic. It has been confirmed that the lionfish in Cuba also presents numerous characteristics that guarantee its success as an invader, among them: less quantity and diversity of parasites than other Atlantic fishes found in similar environments, a high number of gametes in the gonads, reproductive activity during all year and wide diet. The most important fish families for the lionfish diet in Cuba have been Pomacentridae, Gobiidae, Scaridae, Holocentridae, Mullidae, Labridae and Acanthuridae; and the most important crustacean orders are Decapoda, Mysida, Stomatopoda and Isopoda. In Cuba, as in the entire invaded region, numerous investigations have been directed to evaluate the impact of this invader on ecosystems, and although there is enough information, their results differ. Additional studies are required to assess the impact of lionfish as a predator after several years of invasion on a larger geographic scale in Cuba and other areas of the region. This knowledge will allow the development of more effective control strategies. Periodic lionfish culling have been carried out in Cuban MPAs as a control strategy, and some positive results have been observed, such as the average size reduction; however, further efforts are still required. Due to the importance of the study of lionfish as an invader, this review is a necessity as it provides, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of lionfish information and results from Cuba, which is adequately contrasted with previous studies of other areas, particularly, from the Greater Caribbean.
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- Laura del Río
- Center for Marine Research, Universidad de La Habana, La Habana, Cuba
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- Guanahacabibes National Park, Center of Research and Evironmental Services, Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Pinar de Río, Cuba
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- Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Campus de Excelencia Internacional del Mar (CEIMAR), University of Cadiz, Puerto Real, Cadiz, Spain
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Amorim MCP, Wanjala JA, Vieira M, Bolgan M, Connaughton MA, Pereira BP, Fonseca PJ, Ribeiro F. Detection of invasive fish species with passive acoustics: Discriminating between native and non-indigenous sciaenids. Mar Environ Res 2023; 188:106017. [PMID: 37178663 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.106017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2023] [Revised: 04/24/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Invasive alien species have been rising exponentially in the last decades impacting biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. The soniferous weakfish, Cynoscion regalis, is a recent invasive sciaenid species in the Iberian Peninsula and was first reported in the Tagus estuary in 2015. There is concern about its possible impacts on native species, namely the confamiliar meagre, Argyrosomus regius, as there is overlap in their feeding regime, habitat use, and breeding behaviour. Here, we characterised the sciaenid-like sounds recently recorded in the Tagus estuary and showed that they are made by weakfish as they have similar numbers of pulses and pulse periods to the sounds made by captive breeding weakfish. We further demonstrate that breeding grunts from weakfish and the native sciaenid, recorded either in captivity or Tagus estuary, differ markedly in sound duration, number of pulses and pulse period in the two species, but overlap in their spectral features. Importantly, these differences are easily detected through visual and aural inspections of the recordings, making acoustic recognition easy even for the non-trained person. We propose that passive acoustic monitoring can be a cost-effective tool for in situ mapping of weakfish outside its natural distribution and an invaluable tool for early detection and to monitor its expansion.
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- M Clara P Amorim
- MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre / ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, ISPA-Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal; Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
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- Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; IMBRSEA Master Programme, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre / ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, ISPA-Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal; Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
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- MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre / ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, ISPA-Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal; Ocean Science Consulting Limited, Dunbar, Scotland, UK
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- MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre / ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
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- MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre / ARNET - Aquatic Research Network, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Martel SI, Zamora CA, Behrens CA, Rezende EL, Bozinovic F. Phenotypic specialization of the pea aphid in its southern limit of distribution. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2023; 279:111388. [PMID: 36746224 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2023.111388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2022] [Revised: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The success of biological invasions ultimately relies on phenotypic traits of the invasive species. Aphids, which include many important pests worldwide, may have been successful invading new environments partly because they can maximize reproductive output by becoming parthenogenetic and losing the sexual phase of their reproductive cycle. However, invasive populations of aphids invading wide ranges can face contrasting environmental conditions and requiring different phenotypic strategies. Besides transitions in their reproductive cycle, it is only partially known which phenotypic traits might be associated to the invasion success of aphid populations in extended novel ranges. Here, we used four genotypes of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum from two localities in Chile to test for phenotypic specialization that might explain their establishment and spread in habitats exhibiting contrasting environmental conditions. We show that lineages living at a higher latitude with low temperatures show, in addition to facultative sexual reproduction, smaller body sizes, lower metabolic rates and a higher tolerance to the cold than the obligate asexual lineages living in a mild weather, at the expense of fecundity. Conversely, at higher temperatures only asexual lineages were found, which exhibit larger body sizes, higher reproductive outputs and consequently enhanced demographic ability. As a result, in conjunction with the reproductive mode, lineage specialization in physiological and life-history traits could be taken into account as an important strategy for populations of pea aphid to effectively invade extended novel ranges comprising different climatic conditions.
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- Sebastián I Martel
- Departamento de Ecología, Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 6513677, Chile; Instituto Milenio en Socio-Ecología Costera (SECOS), Santiago, Chile; Facultad de Artes Liberales, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile.
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- Departamento de Ecología, Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 6513677, Chile
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- Departamento de Ecología, Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 6513677, Chile
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- Departamento de Ecología, Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 6513677, Chile
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- Departamento de Ecología, Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES), Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 6513677, Chile
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Winters G, Conte C, Beca-Carretero P, Nguyen HM, Migliore L, Mulas M, Rilov G, Guy-Haim T, González MJ, Medina I, Golomb D, Baharier N, Kaminer M, Kitson-Walters K. Superior growth traits of invaded (Caribbean) versus native (Red sea) populations of the seagrass Halophila stipulacea. Biol Invasions 2023; 25:2325-2342. [PMID: 37261082 PMCID: PMC10115387 DOI: 10.1007/s10530-023-03045-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The seagrass Halophila stipulacea is native to the Red Sea. It invaded the Mediterranean over the past century and most of the Caribbean over the last two decades. Understanding the main drivers behind the successful invasiveness of H. stipulacea has become crucial. We performed a comprehensive study including field measurements, a mesocosm experiment, and a literature review to identify 'superior growth traits' that can potentially explain the success story of H. stipulacea. We assessed meadow characteristics and plant traits of three invasive H. stipulacea populations growing off the Island of Sint Eustatius (eastern Caribbean). We compared similar parameters between native (Eilat, northern Red Sea) and invasive (Caribbean) H. stipulacea plants in a common-garden mesocosm. Lastly, we compared our field measurements with published data. The newly arrived H. stipulacea plants from St. Eustatius were characterized by higher percent cover, higher below- and above-ground biomasses, more apical shoots, and faster leaf turnover rates than those measured in both native and older invaded habitats. These results were further confirmed by the mesocosm experiment where the invasive H. stipulacea plants grew faster and developed more apical shoots than the native plants. Results suggest that increased growth vigour is one of the main invasive traits that characterize successful invasive H. stipulacea populations in the Caribbean and potentially in other invaded areas. We encourage long-term monitoring of H. stipulacea in both native and invaded habitats to better understand the future spread of this species and its impacts on communities and their ecosystem functions and services. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10530-023-03045-z.
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- Gidon Winters
- Dead Sea and Arava Science Center (DSASC), Masada National Park, 8698000 Mount Masada, Israel, Israel
- Eilat Campus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Hatmarim Blv, 8855630 Eilat, Israel
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- Department of Biology, Tor Vergata University, Via Della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Oceanography, Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas (IIM-CSIC), Rúa de Eduardo Cabello, 6, 36208 Vigo, Pontevedra Spain
- Department of Theoretical Ecology and Modelling, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Fahrenheit Strasse 6, 28359 Bremen, Germany
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- Dead Sea and Arava Science Center (DSASC), Masada National Park, 8698000 Mount Masada, Israel, Israel
- French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Dryland, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, 8499000 Beersheba, Israel
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- Department of Biology, Tor Vergata University, Via Della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR), Tel- Shikmona, P.O.B. 9753, 3109701 Haifa, Israel
- The Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, 199 Aba Koushy Ave., Mount Carmel, 3498838 Haifa, Israel
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- National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR), Tel- Shikmona, P.O.B. 9753, 3109701 Haifa, Israel
- The Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, 199 Aba Koushy Ave., Mount Carmel, 3498838 Haifa, Israel
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- National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR), Tel- Shikmona, P.O.B. 9753, 3109701 Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Oceanography, Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas (IIM-CSIC), Rúa de Eduardo Cabello, 6, 36208 Vigo, Pontevedra Spain
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- Department of Oceanography, Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas (IIM-CSIC), Rúa de Eduardo Cabello, 6, 36208 Vigo, Pontevedra Spain
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- National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR), Tel- Shikmona, P.O.B. 9753, 3109701 Haifa, Israel
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- Dead Sea and Arava Science Center (DSASC), Masada National Park, 8698000 Mount Masada, Israel, Israel
- University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ UK
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- Dead Sea and Arava Science Center (DSASC), Masada National Park, 8698000 Mount Masada, Israel, Israel
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- Caribbean Netherlands Science Institute, L.E. Saddlerweg, POB 65, St Eustatius, Caribbean The Netherlands
- NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands
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Oficialdegui FJ, Zamora-Marín JM, Guareschi S, Anastácio PM, García-Murillo P, Ribeiro F, Miranda R, Cobo F, Gallardo B, García-Berthou E, Boix D, Arias A, Cuesta JA, Medina L, Almeida D, Banha F, Barca S, Biurrun I, Cabezas MP, Calero S, Campos JA, Capdevila-Argüelles L, Capinha C, Casals F, Clavero M, Encarnação J, Fernández-Delgado C, Franco J, Guillén A, Hermoso V, Machordom A, Martelo J, Mellado-Díaz A, Morcillo F, Oscoz J, Perdices A, Pou-Rovira Q, Rodríguez-Merino A, Ros M, Ruiz-Navarro A, Sánchez MI, Sánchez-Fernández D, Sánchez-González JR, Sánchez-Gullón E, Teodósio MA, Torralva M, Vieira-Lanero R, Oliva-Paterna FJ. A horizon scan exercise for aquatic invasive alien species in Iberian inland waters. Sci Total Environ 2023; 869:161798. [PMID: 36702272 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Revised: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
As the number of introduced species keeps increasing unabatedly, identifying and prioritising current and potential Invasive Alien Species (IAS) has become essential to manage them. Horizon Scanning (HS), defined as an exploration of potential threats, is considered a fundamental component of IAS management. By combining scientific knowledge on taxa with expert opinion, we identified the most relevant aquatic IAS in the Iberian Peninsula, i.e., those with the greatest geographic extent (or probability of introduction), severe ecological, economic and human health impacts, greatest difficulty and acceptability of management. We highlighted the 126 most relevant IAS already present in Iberian inland waters (i.e., Concern list) and 89 with a high probability of being introduced in the near future (i.e., Alert list), of which 24 and 10 IAS, respectively, were considered as a management priority after receiving the highest scores in the expert assessment (i.e., top-ranked IAS). In both lists, aquatic IAS belonging to the four thematic groups (plants, freshwater invertebrates, estuarine invertebrates, and vertebrates) were identified as having been introduced through various pathways from different regions of the world and classified according to their main functional feeding groups. Also, the latest update of the list of IAS of Union concern pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 includes only 12 top-ranked IAS identified for the Iberian Peninsula, while the national lists incorporate the vast majority of them. This fact underlines the great importance of taxa prioritisation exercises at biogeographical scales as a step prior to risk analyses and their inclusion in national lists. This HS provides a robust assessment and a cost-effective strategy for decision-makers and stakeholders to prioritise the use of limited resources for IAS prevention and management. Although applied at a transnational level in a European biodiversity hotspot, this approach is designed for potential application at any geographical or administrative scale, including the continental one.
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- Francisco J Oficialdegui
- Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum (CMN), Murcia, Spain.
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- Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum (CMN), Murcia, Spain
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- Geography and Environment Division, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom; Departamento de Biología de la Conservación, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD)-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Paisagem, Ambiente e Ordenamento, MARE-Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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- MARE-Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Instituto de Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (BIOMA), Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Departamento de Zooloxía, Xenética e Antropoloxía Física, Facultade de Bioloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain
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- Departamento de Biodiversidad y Restauración, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE)-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
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- GRECO, Institut d'Ecologia Aquàtica, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas, Universidad de Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología y Gestión Costera, Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (ICMAN)-CSIC, Cádiz, Spain
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- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Urbanización Montepríncipe, Boadilla del Monte, Spain
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- Departamento de Paisagem, Ambiente e Ordenamento, MARE-Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal
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- Departamento de Zooloxía, Xenética e Antropoloxía Física, Facultade de Bioloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
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- Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, Faro, Portugal
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- Planificación y Gestión Hídrica, Tragsatec, Grupo Tragsa-SEPI, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
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- Centre of Geographical Studies, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Departament de Ciència Animal, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain; Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC), Solsona, Lleida, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología de la Conservación, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD)-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
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- Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, Faro, Portugal
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- AZTI, Marine Research, Marine and Coastal Environmental Management, Pasaia, Gipuzkoa, Spain
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- Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum (CMN), Murcia, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN)-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- MARE-Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Planificación y Gestión Hídrica, Tragsatec, Grupo Tragsa-SEPI, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Ambiental, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN)-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum (CMN), Murcia, Spain; Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales, Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología de Humedales, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD)-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
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- Departament de Ciència Animal, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain; Sociedad Ibérica de Ictiología, Departamento de Biología Ambiental, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona/Iruña, Spain
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- Consejería de Sostenibilidad, Medio Ambiente y Economía Azul, Junta de Andalucía, Huelva, Spain
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- Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, Faro, Portugal
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- Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum (CMN), Murcia, Spain
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- Departamento de Zooloxía, Xenética e Antropoloxía Física, Facultade de Bioloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain
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- Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, CEIR Campus Mare Nostrum (CMN), Murcia, Spain
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López-Reyes K, Osorio-Olvera L, Rojas-Soto O, Chiappa-Carrara X, Patrón-Rivero C, Yáñez-Arenas C. An exhaustive evaluation of modeling ecological niches above species level to predict marine biological invasions. Mar Environ Res 2023; 186:105926. [PMID: 36898302 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.105926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2022] [Revised: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Identifying the areas of the world with suitable environmental conditions for the establishment of invasive species represents a fundamental basis for preventing their impacts. One of the most widely used tools for this is ecological niche modeling. Nonetheless, this approach may underestimate the specie's physiological tolerances (it's potential niche) since wildlife populations of species usually do not occupy their entire environmental tolerance. Recently, it has been suggested that incorporating occurrences of phylogenetically related species improves the prediction of biological invasions. However, the reproducibility of this technique remains unclear. Here, we evaluated the generality of this protocol by assessing whether the construction of modeling units above species level improves the capacity of niche models to predict the distribution of 26 target marine invasive species. For each, we constructed supraspecific modeling units based on published phylogenies by grouping the native occurrence records of each invasive species with the records of its phylogenetically closest relative. We also considered units at species level, including only the presence of records in the native areas of the target species. We generated ecological niche models for each unit with three modeling methods (minimum volume ellipsoids - MVE, machine learning algorithms - Maxent and a presence-absence method - GLM). In addition, we grouped the 26 target species based on whether or not the species are in environmental pseudo-equilibrium (i.e., it occupies all habitats where it can disperse) and have any geographical or biological constraints. Our results suggest that the construction of supraspecific units improves the predictive capacity of correlative models to estimate the invasion area of our target species. This modeling approach consistently generated models with a higher predictive ability for species in non-environmental pseudo-equilibrium and with geographical constraints.
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- Kevin López-Reyes
- UMDI-Sisal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Red de Biología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
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- Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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- UMDI-Sisal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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- UMDI-Sisal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
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Sokolov SG, Ieshko EP, Gorbach VV. Parasites of Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877 (Actinopterygii: Odontobutidae) in the native and the introduced host range: Abundance-occupancy and abundance-variance relationships. Parasitol Int 2023; 93:102699. [PMID: 36375773 DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2022.102699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2022] [Revised: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877 is an invasive fish species rapidly expanding in Siberia and Europe. Its native range encompasses the Far East region of Russia, northeastern China and northern North Korea. We studied species composition, prevalence, mean abundance and variance of mean abundance of macroparasites of the Chinese sleeper in the native and the introduced range. The species composition of the parasite component communities differed considerably in the native and the introduced range. The frequency distributions of prevalence, mean abundance and variance of mean abundance of the parasites did not demonstrate any significant differentiation between the two parts of the host range. However, an analysis of the abundance-occupancy and the abundance-variance relationships revealed that the parasite component communities in the two parts of the host range were quite distinct. In the native range, prevalence increased faster and variance increased more slowly with the increasing abundance of the parasites than in the introduced range. These features are mostly associated with considerably increased prevalence, abundance and aggregation of the host-specific cestode Nippotaenia mogurndae in recipient water bodies as compared with the native habitats.
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- Sergey G Sokolov
- Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia.
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- Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, 185035 Petrozavodsk, Russia
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- Department of Zoology and Ecology, Petrozavodsk State University, 185910 Petrozavodsk, Russia
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Grez AA, Zaviezo T, Orellana I, Pino L, Roy HE, Torres F, Rebolledo C. Citizen Science and Phytosanitary Surveillance Systems Are Complementary Tools to Follow the Invasion of Harmonia axyridis. Neotrop Entomol 2023; 52:46-56. [PMID: 36508148 DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-01014-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Citizen science is a valuable tool for early detection, distribution, and spread of invasive alien species (IAS). Nevertheless, citizen science initiatives have several potential biases and may be complemented with long-term structured monitoring schemes. We analyzed the spatial-temporal dynamics of the invasion of Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Chile, based upon two citizen sciences databases (WEB and INAT) and one structured monitoring (SAG). We collected 8638 H. axyridis occurrences between 2009 and 2020. WEB had a higher number of records than SAG and INAT, and in all databases, the number of records has increased over time. The three databases showed that the invasion started in central Chile and then spread toward the north and south. The WEB and SAG recorded occurrences in the extreme north and south, whereas INAT concentrated all the occurrences in a more limited area, included in WEB and SAG. Both citizen science initiatives concentrated their records in areas of high human populations whereas SAG records had a more even distribution across regions. At 2020, WEB accounted for 55%, SAG 54%, and INAT 8% of the total area accumulated with H. axyridis, with only 16% of area shared among databases. WEB and INAT obtained most of their records in urban and industrial land cover types, while SAG records were more evenly represented in different land cover types. Our results confirm that combined methods, including citizen science initiatives, national surveillance system, and localized samplings, complement each other in providing knowledge to understand the patterns, processes, and consequences of this invasion.
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- Audrey A Grez
- Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
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- Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK
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- Gobierno de Chile, Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero, Santiago, Chile
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de Carvalho-Junior L, Neves LM, Teixeira-Neves TP, Cardoso SJ. Long-term changes in benthic communities following the invasion by an alien octocoral in the Southwest Atlantic, Brazil. Mar Pollut Bull 2023; 186:114386. [PMID: 36462420 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2022] [Revised: 11/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Invasive alien species are considered one of the main threats to marine biodiversity. We used a BACI design to investigate the changes in rocky reef benthic communities related to the invasion of the octocoral Latissimia ningalooensis in the Southwest Atlantic. Drastic changes in benthic community structure were restricted to the invaded site and associated with the growth of L. ningalooensis on turf algae. Conversely, the zoanthid Palythoa caribaeorum remained stable coverage along the 9-year study period, indicating a greater biotic resistance against the octocoral. Latissimia ningalooensis spread from large and well-established patches to new areas of the reef, increasing turf-octocoral interactions. This study warns of the great invasive potential of the octocoral, due to its high abundance, competitive and expansion ability. The decline in abundance of turf-forming algae following the emergence of L. ningalooensis threatens the structure and functioning of macroalgal-dominated rocky reefs.
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- Lécio de Carvalho-Junior
- Graduate Program in Biodiversity, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Rua José Lourenço Kelmer, São Pedro, Juiz de Fora, MG 36036-900, Brazil; Laboratory of Plankton Ecology, Department of Zoology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Rua José Lourenço Kelmer, São Pedro, Juiz de Fora, MG 36036-900, Brazil; Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Education, Department of Environmental Sciences, Campus Três Rios, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Três Rios, RJ 25802-100, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Education, Department of Environmental Sciences, Campus Três Rios, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Três Rios, RJ 25802-100, Brazil.
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Education, Department of Environmental Sciences, Campus Três Rios, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Três Rios, RJ 25802-100, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Biodiversity, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Rua José Lourenço Kelmer, São Pedro, Juiz de Fora, MG 36036-900, Brazil; Laboratory of Plankton Ecology, Department of Zoology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Rua José Lourenço Kelmer, São Pedro, Juiz de Fora, MG 36036-900, Brazil
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Santamarina S, Montesinos D, Alfaro‐Saiz E, Acedo C. Drought affects the performance of native oak seedlings more strongly than competition with invasive crested wattle seedlings. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2022; 24:1297-1305. [PMID: 35344631 PMCID: PMC10078637 DOI: 10.1111/plb.13416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Two of the most important processes threatening vulnerable plant species are competitive displacement by invasive alien species and water stress due to global warming. Quercus lusitanica, an oak shrub species with remarkable conservation interest, could be threatened by the expansion of the invasive alien tree Paraserianthes lophantha. However, it is unclear how competition would interact with predicted reductions in water availability due to global climate change. We set up a full factorial experiment to examine the direct interspecific competition between P. lophantha and Q. lusitanica seedlings under control and water-limited conditions. We measured seed biomass, germination, seedling emergence, leaf relative growth rate, biomass, root/shoot ratio, predawn shoot water potential and mortality to assess the individual and combined effects of water stress and interspecific competition on both species. Our results indicate that, at seedling stage, both species experience competitive effects and responses. However, water stress exhibited a stronger overall effect than competition. Although both species responded strongly to water stress, the invasive P. lophantha exhibited significantly less drought stress than the native Q. lusitanica based on predawn shoot water potential measurements. The findings of this study suggest that the competition with invasive P. lophantha in the short term must not be dismissed, but that the long-term conservation of the native shrub Q. lusitanica could be compromised by increased drought as a result of global change. Our work sheds light on the combined effects of biological invasions and climate change that can negatively affect vulnerable plant species.
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- S. Santamarina
- Research Team Taxonomy and Biodiversity Conservation TaCoBiDepartment of Biodiversity and Environmental ManagementUniversity of LeónLeónSpain
- Centre for Functional EcologyDepartment of Life SciencesUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
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Department of Biodiversity and Environmental ManagementFaculty of Biological and Environmental SciencesUniversity of LeónCampus de VegazanaLeón24071Spain
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- Centre for Functional EcologyDepartment of Life SciencesUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
- Australian Tropical HerbariumJames Cook UniversitySmithfieldQueenslandAustralia
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- Research Team Taxonomy and Biodiversity Conservation TaCoBiDepartment of Biodiversity and Environmental ManagementUniversity of LeónLeónSpain
- Herbarium LEB Jaime Andrés RodríguezCRAI ExperimentalUniversity of LeónLeónSpain
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- Research Team Taxonomy and Biodiversity Conservation TaCoBiDepartment of Biodiversity and Environmental ManagementUniversity of LeónLeónSpain
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Chinchio E, Romeo C, Crotta M, Ferrari N. Knowledge gaps in invasive species infections: Alien mammals of European Union concern as a case study. Sci Total Environ 2022; 846:157448. [PMID: 35863572 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2022] [Revised: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Invasive Alien Species (IAS), i.e. species introduced by humans outside their natural geographic range, may act as host or vectors of pathogens of both human and animal health relevance. Although it has been recognized that IAS should deserve more attention from a public and animal health perspective, data on the pathogens hosted by these species are not systematically collected and this prevents accurate assessments of IAS-specific risks of disease transmission. To support the future development of disease risk assessments, we systematically reviewed the scientific literature related to the pathogens of the eleven mammal species included in the European list of IAS of concern to gain insight in the amount and quality of data available. Data were analyzed to assess the current knowledge on the pathogens harbored by mammal IAS in natural conditions, through the identification of the main factors associated with research intensity on IAS pathogens and with the IAS observed pathogen species richness, the estimation of the true pathogen species richness for each IAS, and a meta-analysis of prevalence for the pathogens of health relevance. While the review confirmed that mammal IAS harbor pathogens of human and animal health relevance such as rabies virus, West Nile Virus, Borrelia burgdorferi and Mycobacterium bovis, results also highlighted strong information gaps and biases in research on IAS pathogens. In addition, the analyses showed an underestimation of the number of pathogens harbored by these species and the existence of high levels of uncertainty in the prevalence of the pathogens of health significance identified. These results highlight the need towards more efforts in making the available information on IAS pathogens accessible and systematically collected in order to provide data for future investigations and risk assessments, as well as the need of relying on alternative sources of information to assess IAS disease risk, like expert opinions.
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- Eleonora Chinchio
- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, via dell'Universitá 6, Lodi, Italy.
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, via dell'Universitá 6, Lodi, Italy
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- Veterinary Epidemiology, Economics and Public Health Group, WOAH Collaborating Centre for Risk Analysis and Modelling, The Royal Veterinary College, Hawkshead Lane, North Mymms, AL9 7TA Hatfield, UK
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, via dell'Universitá 6, Lodi, Italy
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Da Re D, Van Bortel W, Reuss F, Müller R, Boyer S, Montarsi F, Ciocchetta S, Arnoldi D, Marini G, Rizzoli A, L'Ambert G, Lacour G, Koenraadt CJM, Vanwambeke SO, Marcantonio M. dynamAedes: a unified modelling framework for invasive Aedes mosquitoes. Parasit Vectors 2022; 15:414. [PMID: 36348368 PMCID: PMC9641901 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-022-05414-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Mosquito species belonging to the genus Aedes have attracted the interest of scientists and public health officers because of their capacity to transmit viruses that affect humans. Some of these species were brought outside their native range by means of trade and tourism and then colonised new regions thanks to a unique combination of eco-physiological traits. Considering mosquito physiological and behavioural traits to understand and predict their population dynamics is thus a crucial step in developing strategies to mitigate the local densities of invasive Aedes populations. Here, we synthesised the life cycle of four invasive Aedes species (Ae. aegypti, Ae. albopictus, Ae. japonicus and Ae. koreicus) in a single multi-scale stochastic modelling framework which we coded in the R package dynamAedes. We designed a stage-based and time-discrete stochastic model driven by temperature, photo-period and inter-specific larval competition that can be applied to three different spatial scales: punctual, local and regional. These spatial scales consider different degrees of spatial complexity and data availability by accounting for both active and passive dispersal of mosquito species as well as for the heterogeneity of the input temperature data. Our overarching aim was to provide a flexible, open-source and user-friendly tool rooted in the most updated knowledge on the species' biology which could be applied to the management of invasive Aedes populations as well as to more theoretical ecological inquiries.
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- Daniele Da Re
- Georges Lemaître Center for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
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- Unit Entomology and the Outbreak Research Team, Tropical Medicine Institute, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Institute of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Unit Entomology and the Outbreak Research Team, Tropical Medicine Institute, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Medical and Veterinary Entomology Unit, Institute Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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- Laboratory of Parasitology, National reference centre/OIE collaborating centre for diseases at the animal-human interface, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy
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- The University of Queensland, School of Veterinary Science, Gatton, Australia
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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- Wageningen University & Research, Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Georges Lemaître Center for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Evolutionary Ecology and Genetics Group, Earth and Life Institute, UC Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
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Wagener C, du Plessis M, Measey J. Invasive Amphibian Gut Microbiota and Functions Shift Differentially in an Expanding Population but Remain Conserved Across Established Populations. Microb Ecol 2022; 84:1042-1054. [PMID: 34735604 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-021-01896-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Accepted: 10/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Studies of laboratory animals demonstrate extensive variation of host gut microbiomes and their functional capabilities across populations, but how does anthropogenic change impact the microbiomes of non-model species? The anthropogenic movement of species to novel environments can drastically alter animals' microbiomes; however, factors that shape invasive species gut microbiota during introduction remain relatively unexplored. Through 16S amplicon sequencing on guttural toad (Sclerophrys gutturalis) faecal samples, we determine that residence time does not impact microbiome variation between source and introduced populations. The youngest population (~ 20 years in Cape Town) has the most distinct microbiome and associated functional capabilities, whereas longer residence times (~ 100 years in Réunion and Mauritius) produce less divergent microbial compositional, phylogenetic, and predicted functional diversity and differential abundance from source populations (Durban). Additionally, we show extensive variation of microbial and functional diversity, as well as differential abundance patterns in an expanding introduced population (Cape Town) between core and periphery sites. Contrasting previous studies, we suggest that introduction pathways might be an important factor impacting host microbial divergence. These findings also imply that the microbiome can diverge in accordance with host population dynamics.
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- Carla Wagener
- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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- Zoological Research, Foundational Research and Services, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Nie P, Feng J. Global niche and range shifts of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a highly virulent amphibian-killing fungus. Fungal Biol 2022; 126:809-816. [PMID: 36517148 DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2022.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2022] [Revised: 10/05/2022] [Accepted: 10/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is one of the world's most invasive species, and is responsible for chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease that has caused huge losses of global amphibian biodiversity. Few studies have investigated invasive Bd's niche and range relative to those of native Bd. In the present study, we applied niche and range dynamic models to investigate global niche and range dynamics between native and invasive Bd. Invasive Bd occupied wider and different niche positions than did native Bd. Additionally, invasive Bd was observed in hotter, colder, wetter, drier, and more labile climatic conditions. Contrast to most relevant studies presuming Bd's niche remaining stable, we found that invasive Bd rejected niche conservatism hypotheses, suggesting its high lability in niche, and huge invasion potential. Bd's niche non-conservatism may result in range lability, and small niche expansions could induce large increases in range. Niche shifts may therefore be a more sensitive indicator of invasion than are range shifts. Our findings indicate that Bd is a high-risk invasive fungus not only due to its high infection and mortality rates, but also due to its high niche and range lability, which enhance its ability to adapt to novel climatic conditions. Therefore, invasive Bd should be a high-priority focus species in strategizing against biological invasions.
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- Peixiao Nie
- Department of Life Science and Agronomy, Dali University, Dali, 671003, China
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- Department of Life Science and Agronomy, Dali University, Dali, 671003, China.
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Yorisue T. Lack of a genetic cline and temporal genetic stability in an introduced barnacle along the Pacific coast of Japan. PeerJ 2022; 10:e14073. [PMID: 36193430 PMCID: PMC9526406 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2022] [Accepted: 08/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Background Large numbers of exotic marine species have been introduced worldwide. Monitoring of introduced species is important to reveal mechanisms underlying their establishment and expansion. Balanus glandula is a common intertidal barnacle native to the northeastern Pacific. However, this species has been introduced to Japan, South America, South Africa, and Europe. While a latitudinal genetic cline is well known in its native range, it is unclear whether such a genetic cline occurs in introduced areas. Twenty years have passed since it was first identified in Japan and its distribution now ranges from temperate to subarctic regions. Methods In the present study, we examined genotypes of cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) of mitochondrial (mt)-DNA and elongation factor 1a (EF1) across the distribution of B. glandula in Japan at high and mid intertidal zones. Results At all sampling sites, native northern genotypes are abundant and I did not detect significant effects of latitude, tide levels, or their interaction on genotypic frequencies. Further, I did not detect any change of genotype composition between data collected during a study in 2004 and samples in the present study collected in 2019. Data from the present study offer an important baseline for future monitoring of this species and supply valuable insights into the mechanisms of establishment and expansion of introduced marine species generally.
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- Takefumi Yorisue
- Institute of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Hyogo, Sanda, Hyogo, Japan,Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Sanda, Hyogo, Japan
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Wang H, Liu T, Dong H, Zhao W, Liu X, Wang R, Xu W. Changes in the composition of the soil seed bank of grassland after giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida L.) invasion. J Environ Manage 2022; 317:115468. [PMID: 35660828 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2021] [Revised: 05/06/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida L.), an invasive weed, has an expanding distribution area and has recently started to spread in grasslands. This unusual event threatens grasslands worldwide. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the changes in the grassland soil seed banks caused by the giant ragweed invasion in Yili Valley, Xinjiang, China. Using the space-for-time substitution approach, we compared and quantified the soil seed bank communities in a grassland over eight years following giant ragweed invasion and after its removal. The results showed that the duration of invasion determined whether giant ragweed might pose a significant threat to the native seed bank community. Four years after the invasion, the in-site seed bank density of native community significantly decreased (30.44%), while the relative coverage of giant ragweed aboveground reached 83.75%. Furthermore, the species richness in the seed bank decreased significantly (12.36%), while the relative coverage of giant ragweed reached 100% six years after the invasion. Eight years after the invasion, the seed bank density and species richness of the native community decreased by 83.28% and 39.33%, respectively, whereby the seed banks tended to be homogeneous. After the removal of giant ragweed, the potential for regeneration was limited by the residual seed bank densities of the native community. Although the native seed bank density had increased significantly after three years of restoration, new growth was dominated by weedy species, rather than by the distinctive components of the grassland habitat. Our study clarifies the process by which giant ragweed causes damage to grasslands and serves as a reference for grassland restoration and management efforts.
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- Hanyue Wang
- Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Key Laboratory of Oasis Town and Mountain-basin System Ecology, Shihezi, 832000, China; College of Life Science, Shihezi University, Shihezi, 832003, China
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- Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Key Laboratory of Oasis Town and Mountain-basin System Ecology, Shihezi, 832000, China; College of Life Science, Shihezi University, Shihezi, 832003, China.
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- College of Life Science, Shihezi University, Shihezi, 832003, China
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- Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Key Laboratory of Oasis Town and Mountain-basin System Ecology, Shihezi, 832000, China; College of Life Science, Shihezi University, Shihezi, 832003, China
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- Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Key Laboratory of Oasis Town and Mountain-basin System Ecology, Shihezi, 832000, China; College of Life Science, Shihezi University, Shihezi, 832003, China
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- College of Life Science, Shihezi University, Shihezi, 832003, China
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- Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Key Laboratory of Oasis Town and Mountain-basin System Ecology, Shihezi, 832000, China; College of Life Science, Shihezi University, Shihezi, 832003, China
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Závorka L, Wallerius ML, Kainz MJ, Höjesjö J. Linking omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in natural diet with brain size of wild consumers. Oecologia 2022; 199:797-807. [PMID: 35960390 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-022-05229-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 LC-PUFA) are key structural lipids and their dietary intake is essential for brain development of virtually all vertebrates. The importance of n-3 LC-PUFA has been demonstrated in clinical and laboratory studies, but little is known about how differences in the availability of n-3 LC-PUFA in natural prey influence brain development of wild consumers. Consumers foraging at the interface of aquatic and terrestrial food webs can differ substantially in their intake of n-3 LC-PUFA, which may lead to differences in brain development, yet this hypothesis remains to be tested. Here we use the previously demonstrated shift towards higher reliance on n-3 LC-PUFA deprived terrestrial prey of native brown trout Salmo trutta living in sympatry with invasive brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis to explore this hypothesis. We found that the content of n-3 LC-PUFA in muscle tissues of brown trout decreased with increasing consumption of n-3 LC-PUFA deprived terrestrial prey. Brain volume was positively related to the content of the n-3 LC-PUFA, docosahexaenoic acid, in muscle tissues of brown trout. Our study thus suggests that increased reliance on diets low in n-3 LC-PUFA, such as terrestrial subsidies, can have a significant negative impact on brain development of wild trout. Our findings provide the first evidence of how brains of wild vertebrate consumers response to scarcity of n-3 LC-PUFA content in natural prey.
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- Libor Závorka
- WasserCluster Lunz, Inter-university Centre for Aquatic Ecosystem Research, 3293, Lunz am See, Austria.
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 463, 405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- WasserCluster Lunz, Inter-university Centre for Aquatic Ecosystem Research, 3293, Lunz am See, Austria.,Department of Biomedical Research, Danube University Krems, 3500, Krems, Austria
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 463, 405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Donne C, Larkin K, Adrian-Tucci C, Good A, Kephart C, Neiman M. Life-history trait variation in native versus invasive asexual New Zealand mud snails. Oecologia 2022; 199:785-795. [PMID: 35877050 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-022-05222-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2021] [Accepted: 06/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Potamopyrgus antipodarum is a New Zealand freshwater snail that is invasive worldwide. While native P. antipodarum populations are characterized by frequent coexistence between obligately sexual and obligately asexual individuals, only the asexual snails are known to invade other ecosystems. Despite low genetic diversity and the absence of sex, invasive asexual P. antipodarum are highly successful. Here, we quantified variation in three key life-history traits across invasive P. antipodarum lineages and compared this variation to already documented variation in these same traits in asexual native lineages to provide a deeper understanding of why some lineages become invasive. In particular, we evaluated if invasive lineages of P. antipodarum could be successful because they represent life-history variation from native ancestors that could facilitate invasion. We found that invasive snails displayed a non-representative sample of native diversity, with invasive snails growing more slowly and maturing more rapidly than their native counterparts. These results are consistent with expectations of a scenario where invasive lineages represent a subset of native variation that is beneficial in the setting of invasion. Together, these results help illuminate the mechanisms driving the worldwide expansion of invasive populations of these snails.
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- Carina Donne
- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80521, USA.
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- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
- Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
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Fidelis EG, Figueirêdo FL, Castro TMMG, Oliveira DC, Farias ES. Sampling approaches of the Hindustan citrus mite (Schizotetranychus hindustanicus) in Brazilian citrus orchards and climatic factors affecting its population dynamics. Exp Appl Acarol 2022; 87:207-218. [PMID: 35969314 DOI: 10.1007/s10493-022-00735-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2022] [Accepted: 07/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The Hindustan citrus mite, Schizotetranychus hindustanicus (Acari: Tetranychidae), is an invasive pest in South America and constitutes a threat to Brazilian citriculture. This study aimed to determine the contribution of weather variables to the seasonal abundance of S. hindustanicus and the best sampling scheme (sampling variable and unit) for this mite. Populations of S. hindustanicus were monitored monthly in an orange orchard for 31 months in Roraima state, Brazil. Eggs, mobile stages, and the symptoms caused by S. hindustanicus were sampled in different combinations of canopy quadrants, vertical tree strata, and branch sections. The optimal sampling variable and sampling unit for S. hindustanicus scouting were determined according to fidelity and precision criteria. Rainfall and high air temperature were the main factors reducing S. hindustanicus populations. The most suitable variable for S. hindustanicus sampling was egg count. The optimal sampling unit was a leaf collected in the central section of branches located in the middle tree stratum. In addition, the sample should be taken from the southwest quadrant. Collectively, this study adds to the understanding of S. hindustanicus population dynamics and provides a sampling scheme for better management of this pest.
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- Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Roraima-Campus Novo Paraíso, Caracaraí, RR, 69365-000, Brazil
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- Departamento de Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, 37200-900, Brazil
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Anibaba QA, Dyderski MK, Jagodziński AM. Predicted range shifts of invasive giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) in Europe. Sci Total Environ 2022; 825:154053. [PMID: 35217057 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Revised: 01/29/2022] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Heracleum mantegazzianum Sommier & Levier (Giant hogweed) has spread across Europe after its introduction as an ornamental from the native range in the Western Greater Caucasus. In addition to its invasive capability, H. mantegazzianum reduces the alpha diversity of native species in the non-native range and can cause second-degree burns when its phytotoxic sap contacts the skin upon exposure to sunlight. Previous studies on H. mantegazzianum distribution focused on individual countries, therefore we know little about the potential shift of the species distribution under changing climate at the continental scale. To fill that gap in the current knowledge, we aimed to (i) identify the most important climatic factors for the distribution of H. mantegazzianum in Europe, (ii) recognize areas that will be suitable and unsuitable for future climate scenarios to prioritize management action. Our study showed that the mean temperature of the coldest quarter (bio11) and temperature annual range (bio7) were the most important bioclimatic variables predicting the suitable habitat of the species in Europe. For all scenarios, we found that the majority of the range changes expected by 2100 will occur as early as 2041. We predicted an overall decrease in climatically suitable area for H. mantegazzianum under climate change with over three quarters (i.e. 94%) of the suitable area reduced under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) 585 in 2100. However, under the same scenario, climate conditions will likely favour the expansion (i.e. 20%) of H. mantegazzianum in northern Europe. The results from the present study will help in developing a climate change-integrated management strategy, most especially in northern Europe where range expansion is predicted.
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- Quadri A Anibaba
- Department of Ecology, Institute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kórnik, Poland.
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- Department of Ecology, Institute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kórnik, Poland
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- Department of Ecology, Institute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kórnik, Poland
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Latombe G, Catford JA, Essl F, Lenzner B, Richardson DM, Wilson JRU, McGeoch MA. GIRAE: a generalised approach for linking the total impact of invasion to species' range, abundance and per-unit effects. Biol Invasions 2022; 24:3147-3167. [PMID: 36131994 PMCID: PMC9482606 DOI: 10.1007/s10530-022-02836-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The total impact of an alien species was conceptualised as the product of its range size, local abundance and per-unit effect in a seminal paper by Parker et al. (Biol Invasions 1:3-19, 1999). However, a practical approach for estimating the three components has been lacking. Here, we generalise the impact formula and, through use of regression models, estimate the relationship between the three components of impact, an approach we term GIRAE (Generalised Impact = Range size × Abundance × per-unit Effect). We discuss how GIRAE can be applied to multiple types of impact, including environmental impacts, damage and management costs. We propose two methods for applying GIRAE. The species-specific method computes the relationship between impact, range size, abundance and per-unit effect for a given species across multiple invaded sites or regions of different sizes. The multi-species method combines data from multiple species across multiple sites or regions to calculate a per-unit effect for each species and is computed using a single regression model. The species-specific method is more accurate, but it requires a large amount of data for each species and assumes a constant per-unit effect for a species across the invaded area. The multi-species method is more easily applicable and data-parsimonious, but assumes the same relationship between impact, range size and abundance for all considered species. We illustrate these methods using data about money spent managing plant invasions in different biomes of South Africa. We found clear differences between species in terms of money spent per unit area invaded, with per-unit expenditure varying substantially between biomes for some species-insights that are useful for monitoring and evaluating management. GIRAE offers a versatile and practical method that can be applied to many different types of data to better understand and manage the impacts of biological invasions. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10530-022-02836-0.
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- Guillaume Latombe
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, EH9 3FL Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Geography, King’s College London, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG UK
- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne, VIC 3121 Richmond, Australia
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- Bioinvasions, Global Change, Macroecology Group, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria
- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Bioinvasions, Global Change, Macroecology Group, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086 Australia
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du Plessis NS, Rebelo AJ, Richardson DM, Esler KJ. Guiding restoration of riparian ecosystems degraded by plant invasions: Insights from a complex social-ecological system in the Global South. Ambio 2022; 51:1552-1568. [PMID: 34962641 PMCID: PMC8713150 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01691-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2021] [Revised: 08/27/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Restoring riparian ecosystems in human-dominated landscapes requires attention to complexity, and consideration of diverse drivers, social actors, and contexts. Addressing a Global North bias, this case study uses a mixed-method approach, integrating historical data, remote sensing techniques and stakeholder perceptions to guide restoration of a river in the Western Cape, South Africa. An analysis of aerial photographs of the riparian zone from 1953 to 2016 revealed that although anthropogenic land conversion happened primarily before the 1950s, several land use and land cover classes showed marked increases in area, including: waterbodies (+ 1074%), urban areas (+ 316%), alien weeds (+ 311%) and terrestrial alien trees (+ 79%). These changes have likely been driven by land fragmentation, disturbance, and agricultural intensification. Stakeholder interviews revealed that despite the clear need for restoration, several barriers exist to successful implementation; these stem from inadequate financial resources, inappropriate funding models, institutional challenges, and a lack of techno-scientific knowledge. We give several recommendations to overcome these barriers.
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- Nicola S. du Plessis
- Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 South Africa
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- Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 South Africa
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 South Africa
- Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 South Africa
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- Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 South Africa
- Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 South Africa
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Galera H, Rudak A, Wódkiewicz M. Unified system describing factors related to the eradication of an alien plant species. PeerJ 2022; 10:e13027. [PMID: 35529500 PMCID: PMC9070320 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Background In the field of biological invasions science, a problem of many overlapping terms arose among eradication assessment frameworks. Additionally there is a need to construct a universally applicable eradication evaluation system. To unify the terminology and propose an eradication feasibility assessment scale we created the Unified System for assessing Eradication Feasibility (USEF) as a complex tool of factors for the analysis of eradications of alien (both invasive and candidate) plant species. It compiles 24 factors related to eradication success probability reported earlier in the literature and arranges them in a hierarchical system (context/group/factor/component) with a possibility to score their influence on eradication success. Methodology After a literature survey we analyzed, rearranged and defined each factor giving it an intuitive name along with the list of its synonyms and similar and/or related terms from the literature. Each factor influencing eradication feasibility is ascribed into one of four groups depending on the context that best matches the factor: location context (size and location of infestation, ease of access), species context (fitness and fecundity, detectability), human context (knowledge, cognition and resources to act) and reinvasion context (invasion pathways). We also devised a simple ordinal scale to assess each factor's influence on eradication feasibility. Conclusions The system may be used to report and analyze eradication campaign data in order to (i) prioritize alien species for eradication, (ii) create the strategy for controlling invasive plants, (iii) compare efficiency of different eradication actions, (iv) find gaps in knowledge disabling a sound eradication campaign assessment. The main advantage of using our system is unification of reporting eradication experience data used by researchers performing different eradication actions in different systems.
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- Halina Galera
- Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Couton M, Lévêque L, Daguin-Thiébaut C, Comtet T, Viard F. Water eDNA metabarcoding is effective in detecting non-native species in marinas, but detection errors still hinder its use for passive monitoring. Biofouling 2022; 38:367-383. [PMID: 35575060 DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2022.2075739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Revised: 04/21/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Marinas are high-priority targets for marine non-indigenous species (NIS), where they compose a large portion of the biofouling communities. The practicality of water samples collection makes environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding an interesting tool for routine NIS surveys. Here the effectiveness of water-eDNA-metabarcoding to identify biofouling NIS, in 10 marinas from western France, was examined. Morphological identification of specimens collected in quadrats brought out 18 sessile benthic NIS beneath floating pontoons. Water-eDNA-metabarcoding detected two thirds of them, failing to detect important NIS. However, sampling and bioinformatics filtering steps can be optimized to identify more species. In addition, this method allowed the detection of additional NIS from neighboring micro-habitats. Caution should, however, be taken when reporting putative novel NIS, because of errors in species assignment. This work highlights that water-eDNA-metabarcoding is effective for active (targeted) NIS surveys and could be significantly improved for its further use in marine NIS passive surveys.
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- Marjorie Couton
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, Roscoff, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, FR 2424, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, Roscoff, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, Roscoff, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, Roscoff, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, Roscoff, France
- ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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Clavero M, Franch N, Bernardo-Madrid R, López V, Abelló P, Queral JM, Mancinelli G. Severe, rapid and widespread impacts of an Atlantic blue crab invasion. Mar Pollut Bull 2022; 176:113479. [PMID: 35240457 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Revised: 02/14/2022] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) has rapidly invaded coastal environments in the western Mediterranean, but there is no consistent assessment of its impacts yet. We use interviews and long-term data series in the Ebro Delta (NE Spain) to: i) characterise the evolution of the blue crab invasion; and ii) identify its impacts. The blue crab was first recorded in 2012, but its expansion started around 2016, with an exponential increase in abundance between 2017 and 2018. Aquatic communities have tended to be dominated by the blue crab, coinciding with the steep and consistent declines of several species, including threatened and commercially exploited ones. Blue crab impacts seem to be exerted even at low abundances, arguably hindering the recovery of declining species. The blue crab is becoming a keystone species in invaded systems and efforts should be made to understand its many-folds impacts in order to prevent or mitigate them.
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- Miguel Clavero
- Doñana Biological Station - CSIC, Av. Americo Vspucio 26, 41092 Sevilla, Spain.
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- Parc Natural del Delta de l'Ebre, Av. Catalunya 46, 43580 Deltebre, Tarragona, Spain
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- Institut d'Estudis Professionals Aqüícoles i Ambientals de Catalunya (IEPAAC), 43540 Sant Carles de la Ràpita, Tarragona, Spain
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- Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Passeig Marítim 37-49, 08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Parc Natural del Delta de l'Ebre, Av. Catalunya 46, 43580 Deltebre, Tarragona, Spain
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, SP Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy; National Research Council - Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnologies (CNR-IRBIM), Via Pola 4, 71010 Lesina, FG, Italy; CoNISMa, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare, Piazzale Flaminio 9, 00196 Roma, Italy
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Guilherme da Silva A, Carlos-Júnior LA, Sasada Sato CY, Lages BG, Neres-Lima V, Sá de Oliveira FM, Maia LF, Cappa de Oliveira LF, Fleury BG. Living with an enemy: Invasive sun-coral (Tubastraea spp.) competing against sponges Desmapsamma anchorata in southeastern Brazil. Mar Environ Res 2022; 174:105559. [PMID: 35021140 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2022.105559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2021] [Revised: 12/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The azooxanthellate corals Tubastraea coccinea and T. tagusensis invaded the Brazilian coast in the 1980s and is still in expansion, favored by lower predation and competition pressure in their new habitats. Interestingly, the native sponge Desmapsamma anchorata has been observed overgrowing these corals. Considering that competitive displacement is expected to play a major role in the successful outcome of an invasion, the present study tested the physical and chemical mechanisms possibly involved in the competition between D. anchorata and the Tubastraea corals through field and aquaria experiments as well as the Raman spectroscopy technique for chemical analysis. Our results showed that the sponge grew in all directions including over Tubastraea colonies and regardless of its presence. There was no evidence of a specific chemical response among sponges or corals. However, we observed the extrusion of mesenteric filaments and tentacles of corals and the projection of sponge tissue during interspecific interaction, which suggests that physical imposition plays a key role for space competition at micro scales. Given the interspersed nature of benthic species distributions and the fast expansion of Tubastraea, it is unlikely that D. anchorata or any other sponges could serve a biological control against these invasive corals at larger scales, but our results showed that at a microscale they can withstand the corals presence and even outgrow them locally.
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- Amanda Guilherme da Silva
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 20550-019, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
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- Departamento de Biologia - Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC), 22451-900, Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 20550-019, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 20550-019, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 20550-019, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Núcleo de Espectroscopia e Estrutura Molecular, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 36036-330, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
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- Núcleo de Espectroscopia e Estrutura Molecular, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 36036-330, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
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- Núcleo de Espectroscopia e Estrutura Molecular, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 36036-330, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 20550-900, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, PHLC Sala 220, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
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Marine C, Emira C, Amélie C, Bruno B, Martine C, Georges C, Céline C, Jean-Michel F, Barbara G, Zachary G, Jérôme G, Benjamin H, Manon L, Fabrice M, Ivan M, Delphine N, Nicolas P, Jean-François M, André G, Elie GR. Towards unravelling the Rosette agent enigma: Spread and emergence of the co-invasive host-pathogen complex, Pseudorasbora parva-Sphaerothecum destruens. Sci Total Environ 2022; 806:150427. [PMID: 34600207 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2021] [Revised: 09/13/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The emergence of non-native fungal pathogens is a growing threat to global health, biodiversity, conservation biology, food security and the global economy. Moreover, a thorough understanding of the spread and emergence of pathogens among invasive and native host populations, as well as genetic analysis of the structure of co-invasive host populations, is crucial in terms of conservation biology and management strategies. Here we combined extensive catchment sampling, molecular detection tools and genomic signatures to i) assess the prevalence of the rosette agent Sphaerothecum destruens in invasive and native fish populations in contrasting french regions, and ii) characterize the genetic diversity and population structure of its co-invasive and asymptomatic carrier Pseudorasbora parva. Although S. destruens was not detected in all the fish collected its presence in contrasting freshwater ecosystems suggests that the disease may already be widespread in France. Furthermore, our results show that the detection of S. destruens DNA in its asymptomatic carrier P. parva is still limited. Finally, we found that P. parva populations show a homogeneous genetic and geographical structuring, which raises the possibility of the occurrence of successive introduction events in France from their native and invasive range.
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- Combe Marine
- ISEM UMR226, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, 34090 Montpellier, France.
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- ISEM UMR226, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, 34090 Montpellier, France.
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- Laboratoires des Pyrénées et des Landes, 1 rue Marcel David, BP 219, 40004 Mont-de-Marsan, France
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- Fédération de l'Indre pour la Pêche et la Protection du Milieu Aquatique, FDAAPMA 36, 19 rue des Etats-Unis 36000, Châteauroux, France
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- Laboratoires des Pyrénées et des Landes, 1 rue Marcel David, BP 219, 40004 Mont-de-Marsan, France
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- INRAE, Centre PACA, UMR RECOVER, F-13182 Aix-en-Provence, France
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- Fédération de Haute-Savoie pour la Pêche et la Protection du Milieu Aquatique, 2092 route des Diacquenods, Saint Martin Bellevue, 74370 Fillière, France
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- DIR OFB Paca Corse Domaine du Petit Arbois Pavillon Laënnec - Hall B, Avenue Louis Philibert,13547 Aix-en-Provence, France
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- Fédération de Loire-Atlantique pour la Pêche et la Protection du Milieu Aquatique, France
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- Lycée Joffre, 31 rue André Chénier, 34130 Mauguio, France
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- Fédération Nationale de la Pêche en France et de la Protection du Milieu Aquatique 108-110 rue Saint-Maur, 75011 Paris, France
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- Fédération de l'Ain pour la Pêche et la Protection du Milieu Aquatique, 638 rue du Revermont, ZAC de la Cambuse, 01440 Viriat, France
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- Fédération de la Pêche et de Protection du Milieu Aquatique de la Gironde, 10 ZA du Lapin, 33750 Beychac-et-Caillau, France
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- Fédération des Pyrénées-Atlantiques pour la Pêche et la Protection du Milieu Aquatique, 12 boulevard Hauterive, 64000 Pau, France
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- Fédération de Seine-Maritime pour la Pêche et la Protection du Milieu Aquatique, 11 cours Clemenceau, 76100 Rouen, France
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- Tour du Valat, Research Institute for the Conservation of Mediterranean Wetlands, Le Sambuc, 13200 Arles, France
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- Office Français de la Biodiversité, Allée du Pr Camille Soula, 31400 Toulouse, France
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- CBGP, Montpellier SupAgro, INRA, CIRAD, IRD, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- UMR 1467 RECOVER, Aix Marseille Univ, INRAE, Centre St Charles, 3 place Victor Hugo, 13331, Marseille, France
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- ISEM UMR226, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, 34090 Montpellier, France.
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Dimitrakopoulos PG, Koukoulas S, Michelaki C, Galanidis A. Anthropogenic and environmental determinants of alien plant species spatial distribution on an island scale. Sci Total Environ 2022; 805:150314. [PMID: 34543797 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Revised: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Mediterranean islands are considered especially vulnerable to biological invasions by alien plants. However, there is a lack of studies on island scale regarding the factors that determine alien plant's spatial distribution, and the way they affect invasion process. A roadside survey of alien plant species was conducted on Lesvos, the 8th largest island in Mediterranean basin. Data on species counts and explanatory variables were aggregated to a 1 sq. km vector grid and brought together into a single GIS layer. Alien species counts were modelled by using a Negative-binomial model while a Generalised Additive Model was used to examine possible non-linear relationships to the predictors by using splines. A subset of significant factors, related both to human activities and the environment, shaped the spatial distribution of aliens and influenced, in various ways, their future invasion outcome. Transformed areas with high levels of anthropogenic pressures and disturbances, including high population numbers, dense road network, ports, and intensive land use, as is the case for coastal zones, promoted the presence of alien species. Contrary, modified areas, such as grazed lands, seemed to restrict alien species occurrences, possibly due to the long grazing history these areas present, a regime in which aliens are not adapted. Alien plants presence was positively associated with high levels of NPP, diversity of geological substrates, and a west-facing aspect. Anthropogenic determinants of alien spatial patterns were primarily connected to increased propagule pressure, whereas environmental factors demonstrated the preference of alien plants for resource-rich environments.
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- Panayiotis G Dimitrakopoulos
- Biodiversity Conservation Laboratory, Department of Environment, University of the Aegean, 81100 Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece.
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- Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, 81100 Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece
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- Biodiversity Conservation Laboratory, Department of Environment, University of the Aegean, 81100 Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece
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- Biodiversity Conservation Laboratory, Department of Environment, University of the Aegean, 81100 Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece
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Cid-Aguayo B, Ramirez A, Sepúlveda M, Gomez-Uchida D. Invasive Chinook Salmon in Chile: Stakeholder Perceptions and Management Conflicts around a New Common-use Resource. Environ Manage 2021; 68:814-823. [PMID: 34480610 DOI: 10.1007/s00267-021-01528-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Since the last decade, the Chinook salmon has become an invasive species in southern Chilean rivers, affecting their environment and displacing native species due to predation and competition. The socioeconomic valuation of this species is complex, due to its high economic, touristic, and culinary value. The tourism industry and artisanal fishing groups see the salmon as a new common-use resource to be regulated. The Chilean regulatory framework, in turn, has made the presence, danger, and economic importance of the species invisible. This document analyzes the social construction of salmonids according to different interest groups and their interaction with the legal invisibility of this species. Our study delves into a particular group: the artisanal fishermen of La Barra del Toltén, in the Araucania Region, whose main economic activity has been illegal Chinook salmon fishing, pressing for their legalization. This case raises reflections on the perennially complex relationship between nature and society, as well as the management of common problems and common resources.
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- Beatriz Cid-Aguayo
- Departament of Sociology, Universidad de Concepción, Millenium Nucleus Invasive Salmonids INVASAL NCN16_034, Fondecyt Regular Nº 1190020, Concepción, Chile.
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- Millenium Nucleus Invasive Salmonids INVASAL NCN16_034, Santiago, Chile
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- Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Valparaíso, Millenium Nucleus Invasive Salmonids INVASAL NCN16_034, Valparaíso, Chile
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- Departament of Zoology, Universidad de Concepción, Millenium Nucleus Invasive Salmonids INVASAL NCN16_034, Concepción, Chile
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Najberek K, Kosior A, Solarz W. Alien balsams, strawberries and their pollinators in a warmer world. BMC Plant Biol 2021; 21:500. [PMID: 34717554 PMCID: PMC8556960 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-021-03282-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Accepted: 10/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND Strawberries are a common crop whose yield success depends on the availability of pollinators. Invasive alien plants, such as Impatiens glandulifera and I. parviflora, are also attractive for bees and hoverflies, respectively, and occur in close proximity to strawberry cultivation areas. The aim of the study was to test whether alien plants may decrease pollination of strawberry cultivation. However, even if the pollinators are abundant, efficiency of their pollination may decrease as a result of revisits of flowers that were already probed. It is addressed by pollinators by scent marking. Moreover, such revisits can be determined by nectar replenishment, which may occur rapidly in nectar-rich flowers. We studied revisits to I. glandulifera by bumblebees and defined the factors that influence the probability of revisits (air temperature; pollinator species; family caste and size; flower area; sun radiation; and time of day). RESULTS We found that the two alien species decreased the number of pollinators visiting strawberries. Apoidea, Bombini and Syrphidae significantly decreased on Fragaria × ananassa when alien Impatiens were present. We also revealed the influence of increasing air temperature on bumblebee foraging, which was particularly significant for female workers. At very high temperatures (> 37°C), bumblebee males revisited probed flowers less often than female workers. CONCLUSIONS Our results demonstrate that in experimental conditions attractive alien species decrease pollination of strawberries, which may negatively affect production of this crop. Although the results have not been verified in real-life strawberry fields yet, we recommend that alien plant species that share the same pollinators and occur in close proximity of strawberries are controlled. Moreover, we found that revisits of probed flowers may weaken feeding efficiency of bumblebees. If revisits are not induced by nectar replenishment, then global warming may pose a serious threat to the survival of colonies, which may have consequences also for the plants that attract them, e.g., for strawberries.
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- Kamil Najberek
- Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Adama Mickiewicza 33, 31-120 Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Adama Mickiewicza 33, 31-120 Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Adama Mickiewicza 33, 31-120 Kraków, Poland
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Torres N, Herrera I, Fajardo L, Bustamante RO. Meta-analysis of the impact of plant invasions on soil microbial communities. BMC Ecol Evol 2021; 21:172. [PMID: 34496752 PMCID: PMC8425116 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-021-01899-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background One of the ecological impacts of exotic plant invasions may be alteration of the soil microbial community, which may cause changes to the diversity, richness and function of these communities. In order to explore to what extent invasive plants affect the soil microbial community, we performed a meta-analysis based on 46 scientific articles to document the effect of invasive plants on species richness and diversity of bacteria and fungi. We conducted our study across a range of invaded ecosystems including native communities, and evaluated biomass, richness and diversity. We use a random effects model to determine the increase or decrease in the values of the response variables in the presence of invasive plants. Results The results indicated that the response variable that changed with the invasion of plants was the diversity of bacteria. Bacterial diversity in the soil increases with the presence of invasive plants, specifically herbaceous plants producing allelopathic substances growing in forest ecosystems of temperate zones. Conclusions We provide evidence that invasive plants affect the soil biota differentially; however, it is important to consider more variables such as the N and C cycles, since these processes are mediated by soil biota and litter, and chemical compounds released by plants influence them. Changes in bacterial diversity have consequences for the nutrient cycle, enzymatic activity, mineralization rates and soil carbon and nitrogen content. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12862-021-01899-2.
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- Nardi Torres
- Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), A.P. 20632, Caracas, 1020-A, Venezuela
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- Universidad Espíritu Santo, Escuela de Ciencias Ambientales, Samborondón, 091650, Ecuador. .,Sección Botánica, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), 170501, Quito, Ecuador.
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- Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), A.P. 20632, Caracas, 1020-A, Venezuela.
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- Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Las Palmeras No 3425, Santiago, Chile
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Ponce JJ, Arismendi I, Thomas A. Using in-situ environmental DNA sampling to detect the invasive New Zealand Mud Snail ( Potamopyrgus antipodarum) in freshwaters. PeerJ 2021; 9:e11835. [PMID: 34434646 PMCID: PMC8359795 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 07/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Environmental DNA (eDNA) detection of aquatic invasive species is currently at the forefront of aquatic conservation efforts because the methodology provides a cost effective and sensitive means to detect animals at low densities. Developments in eDNA technologies have improved detection probabilities for rare, indicator, and invasive species over the past decade. However, standard lab analysis can take days or weeks before results are available and is prohibitive when rapid management decisions are required for mitigation. Here, we investigated the performance of a real-time quantitative PCR system for on-site eDNA detection of New Zealand mud snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum). Six sites in western Washington, USA were sampled using the rapid eDNA technique and traditional methods, with five samples per site. On-site eDNA detection of mud snails resulted in a 10% increase in positive sites (16/30 = 53% positive) relative to visual surveys (13/30 = 43% positive). In addition, positive associations were observed between mud snail eDNA concentration (eDNA copies per reaction) and the number of mud snail individuals at each site (R2 = 0.78). We show that the rapid on-site eDNA technology can be effective for detection and quantification of New Zealand mud snails in freshwaters. This on-site eDNA detection approach could possibly be used to initiate management protocols that allow for more rapid responses during the onset of biological invasions.
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- Jake J Ponce
- Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America
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- Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States of America
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- Molecular Division, Smith-Root, Inc., Vancouver, WA, United States of America
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Cuthbert RN, Briski E. Temperature, not salinity, drives impact of an emerging invasive species. Sci Total Environ 2021; 780:146640. [PMID: 33774308 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Revised: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Biological invasions are a growing ecological and socioeconomic problem worldwide. While robust predictions of impactful future invaders are urgently needed, understandings of invader impacts have been challenged by context-dependencies. In aquatic systems in particular, future climate change could alter the impacts of invasive non-native species. Widespread warming coupled with sea freshening may exacerbate ecological impacts of invaders in marine environments, compromising ecosystem structure, function and stability. We examined how multiple abiotic changes affect the potential ecological impact of an emerging invasive non-native species from the Ponto-Caspian region - a notorious origin hotspot for invaders, characterised by high salinity and temperature variation. Using a comparative functional response (feeding rates across prey densities) approach, the potential ecological impacts of the gammarid Pontogammarus maeoticus towards native chironomid prey were examined across a range of current and future temperature (18, 22 °C) and salinity (14, 10, 6, 2 ppt) regimes in a factorial design. Feeding rates of P. maeoticus on prey significantly increased with temperature (by 60%), but were not significantly affected by salinity regime. Gammarids displayed significant Type II functional responses, with attack rates not significantly affected by warming across all salinities. Handling times were, however, shortened by warming, and thus maximum feeding rates significantly increased, irrespective of salinity regime. Functional responses were significantly different following warming at high prey densities under all salinities, except under the ambient 10 ppt. Euryhalinity of invasive non-native species from the Ponto-Caspian region thus could allow sustained ecological impacts across a range of salinity regimes. These results corroborate high invasion success and field impacts of Ponto-Caspian gammarids in brackish through to freshwater ecosystems. Climate warming will likely worsen the potential ecological impact of P. maeoticus. With invasions growing worldwide, quantifications of how combined elements of climate change will alter the impacts of emerging invasive non-native species are needed.
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- Ross N Cuthbert
- GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
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Zhang B, Zhai L, Bintz J, Lenhart SM, Valega-Mackenzie W, David Van Dyken J. The optimal controlling strategy on a dispersing population in a two-patch system: Experimental and theoretical perspectives. J Theor Biol 2021; 528:110835. [PMID: 34273362 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2020] [Revised: 06/05/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Invasive species, disease vectors, and pathogens are significant threats to biodiversity, ecosystem function and services, and human health. Understanding the optimal management strategy, which maximizes the effectiveness is crucial. Despite an abundance of theoretical work has conducted on projecting the optimal allocation strategy, almost no empirical work has been performed to validate the theory. We first used a consumer-resource model to simulate a series of allocation fractions of controlling treatment to determine the optimal controlling strategy. Further, we conducted rigorous laboratory experiments using spatially diffusing laboratory populations of yeast to verify our mathematical results. We found consistent results that: (1) When population growth is limited by the local resource, the controlling priority should be given to the areas with higher concentration of resource; (2) When population growth is not limited by the resource concentration, the best strategy is to allocate equal amount of controlling efforts among the regions; (3) With restricted budget, it is more efficient to prioritize the controlling effects to the areas with high population abundance, otherwise, it is better to control equally among the regions. The new theory, which was tested by laboratory experiments, will reveal new opportunities for future field interventions, thereby informing subsequent biological decision-making.
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- Bo Zhang
- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, United States; Department of Integrative Biology, Oklahoma State University, United States.
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- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, United States
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Guerra-Coss FA, Badano EI, Cedillo-Rodríguez IE, Ramírez-Albores JE, Flores J, Barragán-Torres F, Flores-Cano JA. Modelling and validation of the spatial distribution of suitable habitats for the recruitment of invasive plants on climate change scenarios: An approach from the regeneration niche. Sci Total Environ 2021; 777:146007. [PMID: 33684753 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Revised: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The regeneration niche concept states that plant species only occur in habitats where the environmental conditions allow their recruitment. This study focuses on this concept and proposes a novel approach for modelling and experimentally validating the distribution of suitable habitats for the recruitment of invasive plants under the current and future climate. The biological invasion of the Peruvian peppertree (Schinus molle) in Mexico is used as practical example. The values of eight bioclimatic variables associated to sites in which young, naturally established seedlings and saplings were detected were used to model the current distribution of recruitment habitats. A machine-learning algorithm of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) was used to calibrate the model and its output indicated the distribution of occurrence probabilities of young peppertrees in Mexico under the current climate. This model was projected on climate change scenarios predicted for the middle of this century, which indicated that the cover of suitable recruitment habitats for this invasive species will shrink. To validate these predictions, field experiments were performed at three sites where the model predicted reduced occurrence probabilities of young peppertrees. In these experiments, emergence and survival rates of peppertree seedlings were assessed under the current climate and under simulated climate change conditions. As seedling emergence and survival rates were lower under simulated climate change conditions, the experiments validated the model predictions. These results supported our proposal, which combines modelling and experimental approaches to make accurate and valid predictions about the distribution of suitable recruitment habitats for invasive plants in a warmer and drier world.
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- Francisco A Guerra-Coss
- IPICYT/División de Ciencias Ambientales, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Camino a la Presa San José 2055, Colonia Lomas 4ª Sección, 78216 San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico
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- IPICYT/División de Ciencias Ambientales, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Camino a la Presa San José 2055, Colonia Lomas 4ª Sección, 78216 San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico.
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- Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Río Papaloapan y Boulevard Durango s/n, Colonia Valle del Sur, 34120 Durango, DGO, Mexico
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- Instituto de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Rurales, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, El Cerrillo-Piedras Blancas, 50200 Toluca de Lerdo, MEX, Mexico
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- IPICYT/División de Ciencias Ambientales, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Camino a la Presa San José 2055, Colonia Lomas 4ª Sección, 78216 San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico
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- CONACYT-IPICYT/División de Ciencias Ambientales, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Camino a la Presa San José 2055, Colonia Lomas 4ª Sección, 78216 San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico
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- Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Km. 14.5 Carretera San Luis-Matehuala, Soledad de Graciano Sánchez 78321, SLP, Mexico
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