The New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum): autecology and management of a global invader

JA Geist, JL Mancuso, MM Morin, KP Bommarito… - Biological …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum; NZMS) is among the
most globally widespread aquatic invaders, occurring in 39 countries and 5 continents …

Considerations when applying the consumer functional response measured under artificial conditions

BD Griffen - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Since its creation, considerable effort has been given to improving the utility of the consumer
functional response. To date, the majority of efforts have focused on improving mathematical …

[PDF][PDF] Frair: an R package for fitting and comparing consumer functional responses

DW Pritchard, RA Paterson, HC Bovy, D Barrios-O'Neill - 2017 - ore.exeter.ac.uk
1. Consumer‐resource interactions (ie the functional response) underpin decades of
ecological advancements. However, selecting, fitting and comparing functional response …

Emergence of structural and dynamical properties of ecological mutualistic networks

S Suweis, F Simini, JR Banavar, A Maritan - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Mutualistic networks are formed when the interactions between two classes of species are
mutually beneficial. They are important examples of cooperation shaped by evolution …

Advancing impact prediction and hypothesis testing in invasion ecology using a comparative functional response approach

JTA Dick, ME Alexander, JM Jeschke, A Ricciardi… - Biological …, 2014 - Springer
Invasion ecology urgently requires predictive methodologies that can forecast the ecological
impacts of existing, emerging and potential invasive species. We argue that many …

Ecological impacts of an invasive predator explained and predicted by comparative functional responses

JTA Dick, K Gallagher, S Avlijas, HC Clarke… - Biological …, 2013 - Springer
Forecasting the ecological impacts of invasive species is a major challenge that has seen
little progress, yet the development of robust predictive approaches is essential as new …

Numerical and functional responses of forest bats to a major insect pest in pine plantations

Y Charbonnier, L Barbaro, A Theillout, H Jactel - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Global change is expected to modify the frequency and magnitude of defoliating insect
outbreaks in forest ecosystems. Bats are increasingly acknowledged as effective biocontrol …

On the RIP: using Relative Impact Potential to assess the ecological impacts of invasive alien species

JWE Dickey, RN Cuthbert, J South, JR Britton, J Caffrey… - NeoBiota, 2020 - pure.qub.ac.uk
Invasive alien species continue to arrive in new locations with no abatement in rate, and
thus greater predictive powers surrounding their ecological impacts are required. In …

The rise of the functional response in invasion science: a systematic review

L Faria, RN Cuthbert, JWE Dickey, JM Jeschke… - NeoBiota, 2023 - pure.qub.ac.uk
Predicting which non-native species will negatively impact biodiversity is a longstanding
research priority. The Functional Response (FR; resource use in relation to availability) is a …

Habitat simplification increases the impact of a freshwater invasive fish

ME Alexander, H Kaiser, OLF Weyl… - Environmental biology of …, 2015 - Springer
Biodiversity continues to decline at a range of spatial scales and there is an urgent
requirement to understand how multiple drivers interact in causing such declines. Further …