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2 PublicationsSpecies invasiveness and community invasibility of US freshwater fish fauna revealed via trait-based analysis
Su, G.; Mertel, A.; Brosse, S.; Calabrese, J.
Abstract
While biological invasions are recognized as a major threat to global biodiversity, determining species’ abilities to invade new areas (species invasiveness) and the vulnerability of those areas to invasions (community invasibility) are still poorly understood. Here, we used trait-based analysis to profile invasive species and quantify the community invasibility for >1,800 North American freshwater fish communities. We show that species with higher reproduction rates, longer life spans and larger sizes tend to be more invasive. Community invasibility peaked when the functional distance among native species was high, leaving unoccupied functional space for the establishment of potential invaders. Invasion success is therefore governed by both the functional traits of non-native species determining their invasiveness, and by the functional characteristics of the invaded community determining its invasibility. Considering those two determinants together will allow better predictions of invasions.
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.04.481515v1.full.pdf
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.04.481515 -
Nature Communications 14(2023)1, 2332
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38107-2
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