Abstract:Darwin's naturalization conundrum, which posits that the alien species either succeed in the introduced region because being phylogenetically related to the native species hence being pre-adapted, or are phylogenetically dissimilar to native species and thus occupy unfilled niches, has received a lot of attention but the results have been contradictory. Instead of the usual phylogenetic comparison between native and introduced species to address this conundrum, we followed a novel approach of studying the phyl… Show more
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