Species invasions and extinction: The future of native biodiversity on islands

By D. Sax, S. Gaines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The more you introduce the more you get: the role of colonization pressure and propagule pressure in invasion ecology (2009, background): “While we concur with Sax & Gaines (2008) that there is no evidence for extinctionbased saturation in their data, the lack of change in the rate of establishment they observed could be indicative of colonization-based saturation if colonization pressure were increasing over time.”
Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward. (2013, neutral): “For example, the suggestion that local biodiversity can be maintained or even enriched in the face of invasions [66] imparts a positive message that can lead to invasions being seen more as opportunities than as problems.”
Conservation of oceanic island floras: present and future global challenges. (2010, background): “The assumption that invasive plants cause extinctions has been countered by observations that native and alien plant species richness on different oceanic islands are positively rather than negatively correlated (Sax et al., 2002; Sax and Gaines, 2008), and negative impacts of alien plants on native”
A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography (2017, methodology): “Following the logic of MacArthur & Wilson (1967; see also the ‘saturation point’ proposed by Sax & Gaines, 2008), the natural and/or anthropogenic addition of new colonizers can potentially result in the local extinction of measurable numbers of native species, with knock-on consequences for…”
The imbalance of nature: revisiting a Darwinian framework for invasion biology (2014, background): “…inevitably results in the extinction of native species is unclear, given that competition (as opposed to predation) has yet to be implicated as the sole factor causing the extinction of any species, despite more than five centuries of human-mediated species introductions (Sax & Gaines, 2008).”
Invasive Species, Environmental Change and Management, and Health (2010, background): “Indeed, vertebrate predators on islands are the only group of alien organisms whose invasions caused the extinction of native species (notably birds), and predation is a far more important driver of extinctions than competition (6, 65).”
Historical bird and terrestrial mammal extinction rates and causes (2012, neutral): “Sax & Gaines (2008), using the IUCN database, found that predation (including human hunting) alone or in concert with competition from invasive species accounted for 98% of all vertebrate extinctions (although this again reflects expert opinion as recorded in the database).”
Diversity declines in Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stiltgrass) patches (2009, background): “Only long-term monitoring of invaded areas, and genetic analysis of populations growing within and outside M. vimineum patches, may shed light on these latent effects of invasion (Sax and Gaines, 2008).”
Eucalyptus invasions in riparian forests: Effects on native vegetation community diversity, stand structure and composition (2013, background): “The prevalence of highly competitive or shade tolerant species in uninvaded and heavily invaded sites could be related to the ‘‘colonization-based saturation’’ of richness effect (Sax and Gaines, 2008) where further colonization is inhibited by the established species.”
Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress. (2013, background): “For example, in contrast with negative species interactions that can drive species extinctions (Sax & Gaines 2008) and diversity loss (Hautier et al. 2009), positive interactions can maintain diversity in harsh environments where species often rely on each other to persist (Cavieres & Badano 2009).”