生物扩散
利基
航程(航空)
外星人
繁殖体压力
生态学
生态位
空模式
外来物种
抗性(生态学)
生物
引进物种
入侵物种
地理
栖息地
社会学
人口学
复合材料
材料科学
法学
政治
公民身份
人口
政治学
作者
Rebecca S. L. Lovell,Tim M. Blackburn,Ellie E. Dyer,Alex L. Pigot
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41559-020-01376-x
摘要
The unabating rise in the number of species introduced outside of their native range makes predicting the spread of alien species an urgent challenge. Most predictions use models of the ecological niche of a species to identify suitable areas for invasion, but these predictions may have limited accuracy. Here, using the global alien avifauna, we demonstrate an alternative approach for predicting alien spread based on the environmental resistance of the landscape. This approach does not require any information on the ecological niche of the invading species and, instead, uses gradients of biotic similarity among native communities in the invaded region to predict the most likely routes of spread. We show that environmental resistance predicts patterns of spread better than a null model of random dispersal or a model based on climate matching to the native range of each species. Applying this approach to simulate future spread reveals major regional differences in projected invasion risk, shaped by proximity to existing invasion hotspots as well as gradients in environmental resistance. Our results show how environmental resistance may provide a general and complementary approach for predicting invasion risk that can be rapidly deployed even when information on the niche or the identity of potential invaders is unknown. The authors show how a resistance index based on biotic assemblage resemblance can predict the spread of invasive bird species without having to estimate their ecological niche.
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