ArticleNature communications2021
Distance to native climatic niche margins explains establishment success of alien mammals.
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- The socioeconomic and environmental niche of protected areas reveals global conservation gaps and opportunities.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- The poleward naturalization of intracontinental alien plants.Science advances · 2023Article
- Evolutionary imbalance, climate and human history jointly shape the global biogeography of alien plants.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- Patterns and drivers of climatic niche dynamics during biological invasions of island-endemic amphibians, reptiles, and birds.Global change biology · 2023Article
- Ecological marginalization is widespread and increases extinction risk in mammals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- The role of phylogenetic relatedness on alien plant success depends on the stage of invasion.Nature plants · 2022Article
- Distance to native climatic niche margins explains establishment success of alien mammals.Nature communications · 2021Article
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Abstract
One key hypothesis explaining the fate of exotic species introductions posits that the establishment of a self-sustaining population in the invaded range can only succeed within conditions matching the native climatic niche. Yet, this hypothesis remains untested for individual release events. Using a dataset of 979 introductions of 173 mammal species worldwide, we show that climate-matching to the realized native climatic niche, measured by a new Niche Margin Index (NMI), is a stronger predictor of establishment success than most previously tested life-history attributes and historical factors. Contrary to traditional climatic suitability metrics derived from species distribution models, NMI is based on niche margins and provides a measure of how distant a site is inside or, importantly, outside the niche. Besides many applications in research in ecology and evolution, NMI as a measure of native climatic niche-matching in risk assessments could improve efforts to prevent invasions and avoid costly eradications.
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