Four priority areas to advance invasion science in the face of rapid environmental change

A Ricciardi, JC Iacarella, DC Aldridge… - Environmental …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Unprecedented rates of introduction and spread of non-native species pose burgeoning
challenges to biodiversity, natural resource management, regional economies, and human …

Contemporary perspectives on the ecological impacts of invasive freshwater fishes

JR Britton - Journal of Fish Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introductions of non‐native freshwater fish continue to increase globally, although only a
small proportion of these introductions will result in an invasion. These invasive populations …

Global determinants of prey naiveté to exotic predators

A Anton, NR Geraldi, A Ricciardi… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Prey naiveté—the failure of prey to recognize novel predators as threats—is thought to
exacerbate the impact that exotic predators exert on prey populations. Prey naiveté varies …

Cumulative meta‐analysis identifies declining but negative impacts of invasive species on richness after 20 yr

R Crystal‐Ornelas, JL Lockwood - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A principal impact of invasive species is that they reduce local species richness. However, it
is unknown whether the magnitude of the richness decrease has been consistent over the …

[PDF][PDF] Moving scholarship on invasion science forward

JL Lockwood, D Lieurance, SL Flory… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - redpath-staff.mcgill.ca
Sax et al.[1] argue that invasion biologists should more systematically consider positive
impacts of non-native species to 'people and nature'. They state that research has been …

Six central questions about biological invasions to which NEON data science is poised to contribute

NS Gill, AL Mahood, CL Meier, R Muthukrishnan… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biological invasions are a leading cause of rapid ecological change and often present a
significant financial burden. As a vibrant discipline, invasion biology has made important …

Two is better than one: combining gut content and stable isotope analyses to infer trophic interactions between native and invasive species

O Pacioglu, JP Zubrod, R Schulz, JI Jones… - Hydrobiologia, 2019 - Springer
Two complementary approaches are commonly used for analysing trophic interactions that
allow inferences about consumed and assimilated resources: gut content (GCA) and stable …

Accounting for intraspecific diversity when examining relationships between non-native species and functional diversity

T Zhao, S Villéger, J Cucherousset - Oecologia, 2019 - Springer
Quantifying changes in functional diversity, the facet of biodiversity accounting for the
biological features of organisms, has been advocated as one of the most integrative ways to …

Are domesticated freshwater fish an underappreciated culprit of ecosystem change?

J Cucherousset, JD Olden - Fish and Fisheries, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In addition to accidental aquaculture escapees, an increasing number of freshwater fish
expressing different domestication levels are voluntarily released into the wild primarily as …

Reduced predation and energy flux in soil food webs by introduced tree species: Bottom‐up control of multitrophic biodiversity across size compartments

JZ Lu, R Wenglein, C Bluhm, T Stuckenberg… - Functional …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of non‐native tree species has become a global concern and may disrupt
native communities and related ecosystem functions. Soil food webs regulate organic matter …