SynthesisPLoS biology2018
Dissecting the null model for biological invasions: A meta-analysis of the propagule pressure effect.
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- Seed dispersal by vertebrates promotes invasion risk in the southern African grassland biome.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2025Article
- Future global distribution and climatic suitability of Anopheles stephensi.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Biotic resistance predictably shifts microbial invasion regimes.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Non-Native Species Abundance Decreases the Co-Occurrence Between Native and Non-Native Species Through Time at Any Phylogenetic Distance.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Climatic suitability and spread potential of Anoplophora horsfieldii (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), a newly identified non-native insect on Jeju Island, Korea.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Landscape Heterogeneity and Environmental Dynamics Improve Predictions of Establishment Success of Colonising Small Founding Populations.Evolutionary applications · 2024Article
- Genomic Reconstruction of the Successful Establishment of a Feralized Bovine Population on the Subantarctic Island of Amsterdam.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Invasive freshwater snails are less sensitive to population density than native conspecifics.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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- Exploring the complex pre-adaptations of invasive plants to anthropogenic disturbance: a call for integration of archaeobotanical approaches.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Review
- Population genetic insights into establishment, adaptation, and dispersal of the invasive quagga mussel across perialpine lakes.Evolutionary applications · 2024Article
- Quantifying global colonization pressures of alien vertebrates from wildlife trade.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Managing the risk of biological invasions.iScience · 2023Review
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- Effects of Temperature on the Developmental and Reproductive Biology of North American Bean Thrips,Insects · 2023Article
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Abstract
A consistent determinant of the establishment success of alien species appears to be the number of individuals that are introduced to found a population (propagule pressure), yet variation in the form of this relationship has been largely unexplored. Here, we present the first quantitative systematic review of this form, using Bayesian meta-analytical methods. The relationship between propagule pressure and establishment success has been evaluated for a broad range of taxa and life histories, including invertebrates, herbaceous plants and long-lived trees, and terrestrial and aquatic vertebrates. We found a positive mean effect of propagule pressure on establishment success to be a feature of every hypothesis we tested. However, establishment success most critically depended on propagule pressures in the range of 10-100 individuals. Heterogeneity in effect size was associated primarily with different analytical approaches, with some evidence of larger effect sizes in animal rather than plant introductions. Conversely, no variation was accounted for in any analysis by the scale of study (field to global) or methodology (observational, experimental, or proxy) used. Our analyses reveal remarkable consistency in the form of the relationship between propagule pressure and alien population establishment success.
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