The drifting dinoflagellate Ceratium furcoides (Levander) Langhans 1925: fundamental niche shift during global invasion

Aquatic invasive species: introduction to the Special Issue and dynamics of public interest

“…This result shows that the thermal plasticity depends on population origin and that Mediterranean populations of L. peploides are likely to have a competitive advantage in warming conditions. Greater plasticity in habitat and substrate choice was also observed in an invasive as compared to a native population of the brittle star Ophiothela mirabilis Verrill, 1867 (Tavares et al, 2021), whereas another study demonstrated a rapidly expanding fundamental niche in a freshwater dinoflagellate, Ceratium furcoides (Levander) Langhans 1925, which enables it to colonize areas outside its original climatic range (Macêdo et al, 2021). However, particular types of phenotypic plasticity, dispersal, growth and tolerance traits are difficult to generalize across AIS, e.g., even within high-impact invasive aquatic plants, these traits depended on plant growth form (Hussner et al, 2021).…”

Climate change and niche unfilling tend to favor range expansion of Moina macrocopa Straus 1820, a potentially invasive cladoceran in temporary waters

“…In fact, despite niche shifts observed in some taxa (Torres et al, 2018 ; Macêdo et al, 2021 ), most invaders do seem to occupy climates similar to those of their source populations (Martínez-Meyer & Peterson, 2006 ; Petitpierre et al, 2012 ; Strubbe et al, 2015 ; Bates et al, 2020 ). The low but present expansion in M. macrocopa may be due to propagule pressure enhanced by global e-commerce of this species introducing adaptive genetic variation for new areas facilitating colonization of novel environments (Simberloff, 2009 ).…”

“…Currently, some taxonomic groups are adequately investigated in terms of invasion mechanisms involving niche evolution (e.g., plants Broennimann et al, 2007 ), as for freshwater fishes (Lauzeral et al, 2011 ), dinoflagellates (Macêdo et al, 2021 ), and aquatic invertebrates (Torres et al, 2018 ). However, few studies have combined niche dynamic analysis to changes in species redistribution, making it hard to obtain a general pattern of climate-induced shifts across broad taxonomic spectra (Taheri et al, 2021 ) making hard to obtain a general pattern of niche dynamics across broad taxonomic spectra.…”

Invasion strategies and establishment of Ceratium dinoflagellate in subtropical watersheds of Southern Brazil and its interaction with Microcystis cyanobacteria: I. Hydrographic Region of Uruguay

“…These results suggest that local environmental characteristics (abiotic conditions and biotic interactions) are key for the development of C. furcoides in this Hydrographic Region, as these features can act as ecological lters, determining if the species can survive, reproduce, and persist in the habitat(Incagnone et al, 2015). Studies in other aquatic ecosystems in South America reveal that the presence of species differs in relation to the local conditions, ranging from a single record(Silva et al, 2018;Macêdo et al, 2021) to permanent frequency(Silva et al, 2012;Silva et al, 2019).…”