Global environmental changes more frequently offset than intensify detrimental effects of biological invasions

BE Lopez, JM Allen, JS Dukes, J Lenoir, M Vilà… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
Human-induced abiotic global environmental changes (GECs) and the spread of nonnative
invasive species are rapidly altering ecosystems. Understanding the relative and interactive …

Exotic asphyxiation: interactions between invasive species and hypoxia

JE Byers, JA Blaze, AC Dodd, HL Hall… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐indigenous species (NIS) and hypoxia (< 2 mg O2 l− 1) can disturb and restructure
aquatic communities. Both are heavily influenced by human activities and are intensifying …

Invader Relative Impact Potential: a new metric to understand and predict the ecological impacts of existing, emerging and future invasive alien species

JTA Dick, C Laverty, JJ Lennon… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Predictions of the identities and ecological impacts of invasive alien species are critical for
risk assessment, but presently we lack universal and standardized metrics that reliably …

Non‐native species have higher consumption rates than their native counterparts

L Faria, RN Cuthbert, JWE Dickey… - Biological …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐native species can be major drivers of ecosystem alteration, especially through
changes in trophic interactions. Successful non‐native species have been predicted to have …

Novel and disrupted trophic links following invasion in freshwater ecosystems

MC Jackson, RJ Wasserman, J Grey, A Ricciardi… - Advances in ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
When invasive species become integrated within a food web, they may have numerous
direct and indirect impacts on the native community by creating novel trophic links, and …

Assessing the ecological impacts of invasive species based on their functional responses and abundances

C Laverty, KD Green, JTA Dick, D Barrios-O'Neill… - Biological …, 2017 - Springer
Invasive species management requires allocation of limited resources towards the proactive
mitigation of those species that could elicit the highest ecological impacts. However, we lack …

Biological control agent selection under environmental change using functional responses, abundances and fecundities; the Relative Control Potential (RCP) metric

RN Cuthbert, JTA Dick, A Callaghan, JWE Dickey - Biological Control, 2018 - Elsevier
We currently lack the capacity to rapidly and reliably predict the efficacy of biological control
agents due to inadequate consistency in derivations of functional and numerical responses …

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 …

Breathing space: deoxygenation of aquatic environments can drive differential ecological impacts across biological invasion stages

JWE Dickey, NE Coughlan, JTA Dick, V Médoc… - Biological …, 2021 - Springer
The influence of climate change on the ecological impacts of invasive alien species (IAS)
remains understudied, with deoxygenation of aquatic environments often-overlooked as a …

Predicting predatory impact of juvenile invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) on a crustacean prey using functional response analysis: effects of temperature, habitat …

J South, JTA Dick, M McCard, D Barrios-O'Neill… - … Biology of Fishes, 2017 - Springer
The ecological implications of biotic interactions, such as predator-prey relationships, are
often context-dependent. Comparative functional responses analysis can be used under …