Managing human-mediated range shifts: understanding spatial, temporal and genetic variation in marine non-native species

Holman, Luke E.; Parker-Nance, Shirley; Bruyn, Mark de; Creer, Simon; Carvalho, Gary R.; Rius, Marc

doi:10.1098/rstb.2021.0025

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“…Furthermore, invasive species are a major threat to biodiversity worldwide [76,77]. Invasive species often exhibit higher plasticity than non-invasive species do [78][79][80] and it has been suggested that plasticity may be a key factor governing invasion success [78,80,81].…”

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The role of phenotypic plasticity in the establishment of range margins

Eriksson

Rafajlović

2022

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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It has been argued that adaptive phenotypic plasticity may facilitate range expansions over spatially and temporally variable environments. However, plasticity may induce fitness costs. This may hinder the evolution of plasticity. Earlier modelling studies examined the role of plasticity during range expansions of populations with fixed genetic variance. However, genetic variance evolves in natural populations. This may critically alter model outcomes. We ask: how does the capacity for plasticity in populations with evolving genetic variance alter range margins that populations without the capacity for plasticity are expected to attain? We answered this question using computer simulations and analytical approximations. We found a critical plasticity cost above which the capacity for plasticity has no impact on the expected range of the population. Below the critical cost, by contrast, plasticity facilitates range expansion, extending the range in comparison to that expected for populations without plasticity. We further found that populations may evolve plasticity to buffer temporal environmental fluctuations, but only when the plasticity cost is below the critical cost. Thus, the cost of plasticity is a key factor involved in range expansions of populations with the potential to express plastic response in the adaptive trait. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Species' ranges in the face of changing environments (part I)’.

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Section: (D) Management and Conservation Applicationsmentioning

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The role of phenotypic plasticity in the establishment of range margins

Eriksson

Rafajlović

2022

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Niche limits may be exceeded locally, within the species’ range, as well as at its geographical limits [ 27 ]. Understanding these ecological limits is critical for the management of range change, as discussed here for non-native marine species [ 18 ].…”

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“…Holman et al . [ 18 ] compare current and historical distributions of non-native ascidian species along the coast of South Africa using both genetic and inventory data. They also evaluate the usefulness of environmental DNA (eDNA) in addressing this type of question.…”

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“…We believe that providing answers of this type is essential for designing successful policies and management actions aimed at conserving biodiversity or mitigating its loss and maintaining ecological resilience. While the theme issue consists of two parts (part I [ 7 , 9 – 18 ] and part II [ 19 – 28 ]), they should be viewed as a coherent unit. In what follows, we briefly introduce the topics addressed in the theme issue.…”

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Introduction to the theme issue ‘Species' ranges in the face of changing environments’

Rafajlović

Alexander

Butlin

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Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Understanding where, when and how species’ ranges will be modified is both a fundamental problem and essential to predicting how spatio-temporal environmental changes in abiotic and biotic factors impact biodiversity. Notably, different species may respond disparately to similar environmental changes: some species may overcome an environmental change only with difficulty or not at all, while other species may readily overcome the same change. Ranges may contract, expand or move. The drivers and consequences of this variability in species' responses remain puzzling. Importantly, changes in a species’ range creates feedbacks to the environmental conditions, populations and communities in its previous and current range, rendering population genetic, population dynamic and community processes inextricably linked. Understanding these links is critical in guiding biodiversity management and conservation efforts. This theme issue presents current thinking about the factors and mechanisms that limit and/or modify species' ranges. It also outlines different approaches to detect changes in species’ distributions, and illustrates cases of range modifications in several taxa. Overall, this theme issue highlights the urgency of understanding species' ranges but shows that we are only just beginning to disentangle the processes involved. One way forward is to unite ecology with evolutionary biology and empirical with modelling approaches. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Species’ ranges in the face of changing environments (Part II)’.

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“…Range expansion can cause surfing of underdominant alleles [ 7 ]. Finally, three contributions move towards management considerations, starting with biophysical modelling of dispersal [ 8 ] and reconstruction of invasion history [ 9 ] and then considering management of human-mediated range change [ 10 ].…”

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