INVESTIGADORES
HIERRO jose luis
artículos
Título:
Community Assembly Theory as a Framework for Biological Invasions
Autor/es:
PEARSON, DEAN E.; ORTEGA, YVETTE K.; EREN, ÖZKAN; HIERRO, JOSÉ L.
Revista:
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION - TREE
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
Referencias:
Año: 2018
ISSN:
0169-5347
Resumen:
Biological invasions present a global problem underlainbyanecologicalpara-dox thatthwartsexplanation:howdosomeexoticspecies,evolutionarilynaïveto theirnewenvironments,outperformlocallyadaptednatives?Weproposethat communityassemblytheoryprovidesaframeworkforaddressingthisquestion. Localcommunityassemblyrulescanbedefined byevaluatinghow nativespecies? traits interactwithcommunity filters toaffectspeciesabundance. Evaluationofexoticspeciesagainstthisbenchmarkindicatesthatexotics thatfollowassemblyrulesbehavelikenatives,whilethoseexhibitingnovel interactionswithcommunity filters cangreatlyunderperformoroutper-form natives.Additionally,advantagesgainedbyexoticsovernativesfollowingdisturbance canbeexplainedbyaccountingforextrinsicassemblyprocessesthat biasexotictraitstowardruderalstrategies.
