Evidence of climatic niche shift during biological invasion

Broennimann, Olivier; Treier, Urs A.; Müller‐Schärer, Heinz; Thuiller, Wilfried; Peterson, A. Townsend; Guisan, Antoine

doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01060.x

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“…At large scales, climate is the most important abiotic aspect shaping non-native species distribution (Thuiller et al, 2005;Broennimann et al, 2007). In our study, non-native species were more likely to be present in areas with high summer precipitation and close to the coast (i.e.…”

Section: Climate and Plant Invasionsmentioning

confidence: 63%

“…Context-dependent associations are usually assessed by calibrating the same model with different datasets (Broennimann et al, 2007;Gassó et al, 2012). This modelling strategy is problematic when the number of categories is large due to the increasing number of parameters to estimate, the unbalanced number of samples per category, and the difficulty to interpret differences.…”

Section: Modelling Strategies To Understand the Context-dependence Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Plant invasions are context‐dependent: multiscale effects of climate, human activity and habitat

González‐Moreno

Diez

Ibáñez

et al. 2014

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Aim: Understanding the conditions that promote biological invasions is a critical step to developing successful management strategies. However, the level of invasion is affected by complex interactions among environmental factors that might change across habitats and regions making broad generalizations uninformative for management. We aimed to quantify the context-dependent association of climate and human activity at landscape scale (i.e. disturbance and propagule pressure) with the level of plant invasion at local scale across different stages of invasion, habitat types and bioclimatic regions.Location: Mainland Spain. Methods:Based on an extensive database of vegetation plots (~50,000) we used hierarchical Bayesian models to test how climate and human activity at a landscape scale (i.e. land-cover variables) are associated with establishment (i.e. presence) and dominance (i.e. relative species richness and abundance in invaded plots) of non-native plants across nine habitat types and three bioclimatic regions. Results: The association of climate with establishment and dominance of non-native plants varied depending on habitat type but not bioclimatic region. These associations also varied depending on the stage of invasion under consideration. Establishment of non-native species was more likely close to the coast, while their dominance increased in wet and warm continental areas. Human activity variables were associated with establishment and dominance similarly across bioclimatic regions. Non-native species establishment and abundance peaked in human-altered landscapes. Different habitats showed different susceptibilities to establishment versus dominance by non-native species (e.g. woodlands had medium levels of establishment but very low dominance). Main conclusions:This study highlights how complex interactions among climate, human activity, and habitats can determine patterns of invasions across broad landscapes. Successful management of plant invasions will depend on understanding these context-dependent effects across habitats at the different stages of the invasion process.

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Section: Climate and Plant Invasionsmentioning

confidence: 63%

Section: Modelling Strategies To Understand the Context-dependence Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

Plant invasions are context‐dependent: multiscale effects of climate, human activity and habitat

González‐Moreno

Diez

Ibáñez

et al. 2014

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“…Like propagule pressure, pre-adaption is not a necessary precondition for successful invasion, because climatic niche shifts have been reported for invasive species 23 . Disturbance events also provide windows of opportunity for invasive species 24 .…”

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The Human Release Hypothesis for biological invasions: human activity as a determinant of the abundance of invasive plant species

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Research on biological invasions has increased rapidly over the past 30 years, generating numerous explanations of how species become invasive. While the mechanisms of invasive species establishment are well studied, the mechanisms driving abundance patterns (i.e. patterns of population density) remain poorly understood. Invasive species typically have higher abundances in their new environments than in their native ranges, and patterns of invasive species abundance differ between invaded regions. To explain differences in invasive species abundance, we propose the Human Release Hypothesis. In parallel to the established Enemy Release Hypothesis, this hypothesis states that the abundance of invasive species may be partly explained by the level of human activity or landscape maintenance, with intermediate levels of human activity providing optimal conditions for high abundance. The Human Release Hypothesis does not negate other important drivers of species invasions, but rather should be considered as a potentially important additional or complementary mechanism. We illustrate the hypothesis via a case study on an invasive rose species, and hypothesize which locations globally may be most likely to support high abundances of invasive species. We propose that more extensive empirical work on the Human Release Hypothesis could be useful to test its general applicability.

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“…Another recent observation that owes much to invasion research has been that some species have the ability to evolve rapidly in ecologically relevant time spans (Callaway and Maron, 2006;Facon et al, 2006;Richardson and Pysek, 2006). Species niches, i.e., the specialisation of a species in environmental space, may therefore be less stable than previously thought (Broennimann et al, 2007;Holt et al, 2005). …”

Section: Natural Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 81%

How to Achieve Effectiveness in Problem-Oriented Landscape Research: The Example of Research on Biotic Invasions

Kueffer¹,

Hadorn²

2008

Living Rev. Landscape Res.

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It is increasingly expected from environmental research such as landscape research that science directly contributes to the solving of pressing societal problems. However, despite increased efforts to direct research towards societal problems, it is not obvious if science has become more effective in supporting environmental problem-solving. We present in this article a framework that facilitates the analysis and design of problem-orientation in research fields. We then apply the proposed framework to a concrete example of a problem-oriented landscape research field -namely research on biotic invasions. Invasion research addresses the problem that some organisms, that have been introduced by humans to a new geographic area where they were previously not present, spread in the landscape and pose negative impacts.We argue that problem-oriented research is more than applied research. Besides research on specific questions it also encompasses boundary management, i.e., deliberations among experts and stakeholders on the framing of adequate research questions about processes, values and practices for effective problem-solving. We postulate that such research may assist problem-solving in three ways, by analysing causal relationships (systems knowledge), clarifying conflicts of interests and values (target knowledge), or contributing to the development of appropriate means for action (transformation knowledge).We show that over the past decades a broad range of different research approaches has emerged in the young field of invasion research in order to produce systems, target and transformation knowledge for invasive species management. Early research in the field was dominated by the development of systems knowledge, but increasingly the three knowledge forms are Boundary management in invasion research is mainly restricted to informal networks (communities of practice), while formal processes such as transdisciplinary research are scarce. We suggest that the paucity of structured and explicit boundary management processes will limit the future development of a more effective science for invasive species management. In particular, we envisage three obstacles that can only be removed through explicit boundary management. First, the existing theoretical frameworks are currently only partly able to integrate natural and social sciences research on the processes underlying invasions. Second, a clarification of the normative thinking about alien plant invasions is needed. Third, research on transformation knowledge has so far not fundamentally challenged the existing conceptual framing and institutional setup of invasive species management.

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Evidence of climatic niche shift during biological invasion

Cited by 953 publications

References 52 publications

Plant invasions are context‐dependent: multiscale effects of climate, human activity and habitat

Plant invasions are context‐dependent: multiscale effects of climate, human activity and habitat

The Human Release Hypothesis for biological invasions: human activity as a determinant of the abundance of invasive plant species

How to Achieve Effectiveness in Problem-Oriented Landscape Research: The Example of Research on Biotic Invasions

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