This review revisits the traits thought to have contributed to the success of Indo‐Pacific
lionfish Pterois sp. as an invader in the western Atlantic Ocean and the worst‐case scenario …

Tropical marine ecosystems are biologically diverse and economically invaluable. However,
they are severely threatened from impacts associated with climate change coupled with …

Structural complexity strongly influences biodiversity and ecosystem productivity. On coral
reefs, structural complexity is typically measured using a single and small-scale metric …

Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans/miles were likely introduced to Florida coastal waters via
the aquarium trade and have spread rapidly along the southeastern coast of the United …

Invasive predators typically have larger effects on native prey populations than native
predators, yet the potential roles of their consumptive versus non-consumptive effects (CEs …

As predators play a central role in prey population regulation, predicting the impact of a
novel predator requires determining how the invader affects the compensatory dynamics …

Predator–prey interactions are critical in ecological communities, but it is increasingly clear
that a predator's effect goes beyond eating prey. Fear of predators may also alter the …

Native prey can be particularly vulnerable to consumption by exotic predators. Prey naiveté,
the failure to recognize a novel predator due to lack of recent co-evolutionary history, likely …

Successful invasions are largely explained by some combination of enemy release, where
the invader escapes its natural enemies from its native range, and low biotic resistance …

Invasive lionfish are assumed to significantly affect Caribbean reef fish communities.
However, evidence of lionfish effects on native reef fishes is based on uncontrolled …