The role of eco-evolutionary experience in invasion success
By Wolf‐Christian Saul, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Tina Heger. 2013
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Invasion ecology has made considerable progress in identifying specific mechanisms that potentially determine success and failure of biological invasions. Increasingly, efforts are being made to interrelate or even synthesize the growing number of hypotheses in order to gain a more comprehensive and integrative understanding of invasions. We argue that adopting an eco-evolutionary perspective on invasions is a promising approach to achieve such integration. It emphasizes the evolutionary antecedents of invasions, i.e. the species’ evolutionary legacy and its role in shaping novel biotic interactions that arise due to invasions. We present a conceptual framework consisting of five hypothetical scenarios about the influence of so-called ‘eco-evolutionary experience’ in resident native and invading non-native species on invasion success, depending on the type of ecological interaction (predation, competition, mutualism, and commensalism). We show that several major ecological invasion hypotheses, including ‘enemy release’, ‘EICA’, ‘novel weapons’, ‘naive prey’, ‘new associations’, ‘missed mutualisms’ and ‘Darwin’s naturalization hypothesis’ can be integrated into this framework by uncovering their shared implicit reference to the concept of eco-evolutionary experience. We draft a routine for the assessment of eco-evolutionary experience in native and non-native species using a food web-based example and propose two indices (xp Focal index and xp Residents index) for the actual quantification of eco-evolutionary experience. Our study emphasizes the explanatory potential of an eco-evolutionary perspective on biological invasions.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science
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- Structuring evidence for invasional meltdown: broad support but with biases and gaps (2018, background): “The level of eco-evolutionary experience (sensu Saul et al. 2013; Saul and Jeschke 2015) (i.e., adaptations accumulated during evolution to biotic interactions in a species’ native range) that the nonnative species has is likely more important to the outcome of the new interaction.”