Are invasive species a major cause of extinctions?

By J. Gurevitch, D. Padilla. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2004

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Fish conservation in freshwater and marine realms: status, threats and management (2016, neutral): “…99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 invasions and relatively few species are at risk owing to invasive species in the oceans (Gurevitch and Padilla, 2004).”
Differences in growth and foraging behavior of native and introduced populations of an invasive crayfish (2009, background): “…of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA L. M. Pintor (&) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor Street (MC 066), Chicago, IL 60607, USA e-mail: lmpintor@uic.edu; lmpintor@ucdavis.edu (Gurevitch and Padilla 2004; Ricciardi 2004).”
Gone but Not Forgotten? Invasive Plants' Legacies on Community and Ecosystem Properties (2012, background): “Although plant invaders have been associated with local extirpations within a given community and dramatic shifts in community dominance, there are relatively few, if any, cases of global extinctions from plant invaders (Gurevitch and Padilla 2004; Sax and Gaines 2008).”
Incursion and excursion of Antarctic biota: past, present and future (2006, neutral): “Recent analyses have disputed whether invasions are demonstrably a major cause of extinction, but the balance of evidence seems to weigh strongly for a massive effect of invaders (see Gurevitch & Padilla, 2004 vs. Blackburn et al ., 2004; Clavero & Garcia-Berthou, 2005).”
Biodiversity Response To Habitat Loss And Fragmentation (2017, background): “Ecological cascades may also be triggered by the invasion of exotic species, which may monopolize resources and thereby cause extinction of native species (Gurevitch and Padilla, 2004).”
Lantana invasion: An overview (2005, background): “Disturbance, whether regular or episodic, is a natural feature of dynamic ecosystems (Sousa 1984; Gurevitch & Padilla 2004) but it also facilitates the invasion process.”
Mechanisms of Plant Invasions of North American and European Grasslands (2011, background): “…(Wilcove et al. 1998, Vilà et al. 2010) and diversity (Hejda et al. 2009a), the abundance of nonnative species can be the result of other physical or chemical changes in the environment and not necessarily the causal mechanism for change (Gurevitch & Padilla 2004, MacDougall & Turkington 2005).”
Disappearing giants: a review of threats to freshwater megafauna (2017, background): “Species invasion is regarded as a major threat to global biodiversity, although its relative contribution to species decline and extinction is debatable as native species and their habitats are usually also subject to various other anthropogenic threats simultaneously.(133,134) Due to their large bo”
The significance of the sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Islands for the assessment of the vulnerability of native communities to climate change, alien insect invasions and plant viruses (2011, background): “the invasiveness of the alien and the invasibility of the habitat (Gurevitch and Padilla 2004; Hoffmeister et al. 2005; Kenis et al. 2009; Levine et al. 2003; Strayer et al. 2006; Williamson 1996).”
The invasion paradox: reconciling pattern and process in species invasions. (2007, background): “Global species extinctions attributed to invasive species have been from invasions by predators, parasites, or diseases and susceptible native prey; few if any known examples have been directly linked to competitive exclusion (Davis 2003, Gurevitch and Padilla 2004).”
The alien flora of Kashmir Himalaya (2007, background): “In fact, the economic global- ization is aiding and abetting the ‘biotic global- ization’ of the world, sometimes infamously referred to as ‘biological pollution’, with cata- strophic economic and ecological ramifications (McNeely 2001; Carey 2002; Gurevitch and Padilla 2004; Pimentel et al. 2005).”
Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of native European ladybirds (2012, background): “However, the majority of studies implicating IAS in species declines involve basic correlations in degraded ecosystems (Gurevitch & Padilla, 2004; Didham et al., 2005) at small spatial scales and over short time-scales.”
Tree invasion in naturally treeless environments: impacts of quinine (Cinchona pubescens) trees on native vegetation in Galápagos. (2007, background): “All rights reserved Ecology, Department of E l.: +49 30 314 71365; fax: .de (H. Jäger), alant@spr , Samoa. impacts of invasive species is often still speculative or based upon limited quantitative observations (Starfinger et al., 2003; Gurevitch and Padilla, 2004; Thieltges et al., 2006).”
When does invasive species removal lead to ecological recovery? Implications for management success (2018, background): “Moreover, invasive species can either act as drivers or passengers of environmental change; when invaders are not drivers their removal will not alleviate impacts (Gurevitch and Padilla 2004; MacDougall and Turkington 2005).”