[HTML][HTML] Addressing context dependence in ecology

JA Catford, JRU Wilson, P Pyšek, PE Hulme… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Context dependence is widely invoked to explain disparate results in ecology. It arises when
the magnitude or sign of a relationship varies due to the conditions under which it is …

[HTML][HTML] Why are invasive plants successful?

M Gioria, PE Hulme, DM Richardson… - Annual Review of Plant …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Plant invasions, a byproduct of globalization, are increasing worldwide. Because of their
ecological and economic impacts, considerable efforts have been made to understand and …

Freshwater fish invasions: A comprehensive review

C Bernery, C Bellard, F Courchamp… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Freshwater fish have been widely introduced worldwide, and freshwater ecosystems are
among those most affected by biological invasions. Consequently, freshwater fish invasions …

Four priority areas to advance invasion science in the face of rapid environmental change

A Ricciardi, JC Iacarella, DC Aldridge… - Environmental …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Unprecedented rates of introduction and spread of non-native species pose burgeoning
challenges to biodiversity, natural resource management, regional economies, and human …

Meta-analysis reveals less sensitivity of non-native animals than natives to extreme weather worldwide

S Gu, T Qi, JR Rohr, X Liu - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme weather events (EWEs; for example, heatwaves, cold spells, storms, floods and
droughts) and non-native species invasions are two major threats to global biodiversity and …

A synthesis of biological invasion hypotheses associated with the introduction–naturalisation–invasion continuum

EZ Daly, O Chabrerie, F Massol, B Facon, MCM Hess… - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the advent of the Anthropocene, biological invasions have reached an unprecedented
level, and the number of species introductions is still increasing in an ever‐changing world …

Dimensions of invasiveness: Links between local abundance, geographic range size, and habitat breadth in Europe's alien and native floras

TS Fristoe, M Chytrý, W Dawson… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding drivers of success for alien species can inform on potential future invasions.
Recent conceptual advances highlight that species may achieve invasiveness via …

Biological invasions reveal how niche change affects the transferability of species distribution models

C Liu, C Wolter, F Courchamp, N Roura‐Pascual… - Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) have been widely applied to predict geographic ranges
of species across space and time under the assumption of niche conservatism (ie, species …

MAcroecological Framework for Invasive Aliens (MAFIA): disentangling large-scale context dependence in biological invasions

P Pyšek, S Bacher, I Kühn, A Novoa, JA Catford… - 2020 - researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz
Macroecology is the study of patterns, and the processes that determine those patterns, in
the distribution and abundance of organisms at large scales, whether they be spatial (from …

Toward an integrative framework for microbial community coalescence

GF Custer, L Bresciani, F Dini-Andreote - Trends in Microbiology, 2023 - cell.com
Community coalescence is defined as the mixing of intact ecological communities. From
river confluences to fecal microbiota transplantation, community coalescence constitutes a …