Release from Parasites as Natural Enemies: Increased Performance of a Globally Introduced Marine Crab

By M. Torchin, K. Lafferty, A. Kuris. Biological Invasions, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Parasites, pathogens, and invasions by plants and animals (2004, methodology): “…biotic factors, including resources (Dobson 1988), competition (Crawley 1986; Byers 2000), and natural enemies (Darwin 1859; Elton 1958; Dobson 1988; Torchin et al. 2001, 2002, 2003; Mitchell and Power 2003) can all affect the demographics of an invader, either independently or interactively.”
Life History and Population Dynamics of Green Crabs (Carcinus maenas) (2019, background): “As is the case with many species, green crabs in non-native populations are substantially less infected by parasites than in the native population [348].”
High recruitment of the introduced bryozoan Membranipora membranacea is associated with kelp bed defoliation in Nova Scotia, Canada (2008, background): “In general, harmful outbreaks of newly introduced species may occur because there is a lack, or a mismatch in the timing (Werner et al. 2006), of competitors (Byers 2000), parasites (Torchin et al. 2001), or predators (Wolfe 2002).”
Seeing red: alien species along the Mediterranean coast of Israel. (2007, background): “…subset of their parasitofauna, thus releasing themselves from the parasites of their native habitat during introduction, and though subsequently accumulating parasites native to their new environment, they harbor fewer parasites in their new locale than in their native range (Torchin et al. 2001).”
BIOTIC RESISTANCE TO INVASION: NATIVE PREDATOR LIMITS ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF AN INTRODUCED CRAB (2005, background): “However, Torchin et al. (2001) found a striking paucity of metazoan parasites, native or nonnative, from Carcinus maenas along eastern North America.”
A neutral terminology to define ‘invasive’ species (2004, methodology): “We are grateful for financial support to RIC from University of Windsor and to HJM from NSERC and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.”
Is invasion success explained by the enemy release hypothesis (2004, background): “These effects are particularly conspicuous in parasitological and plant–herbivore studies (Hoffman & Schubert 1984; Bigger & Marvier 1998; Torchin et al. 2001; Hudson et al. 2002).”
Introduced Bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) in Western Canada: Has Their Ecology Diverged? (2006, background): “Introduced species when released from competitors, predators, and parasites of their native range can exhibit increased vigor, larger size, and higher growth rate and population densities (Willis et al., 2000; Torchin et al., 2001; Campbell and Echternacht, 2003).”
Ecological Effects of Invasive Arthropod Generalist Predators (2006, background): “Similarly, guilds of North American ladybird beetles were invaded first by the European species C. septempunctata.”
Biotic interactions and plant invasions. (2006, methodology): “Therefore, studies should be designed to take advantage of chronosequence sites that vary in invasion stage (e.g. Siemann & Rogers 2001; Torchin et al. 2001).”
Invasion biology of the Asian shore crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus: A review (2013, unknown): “sanguineus is currently devoid of parasites in both North America and Europe (McDermott, 2011), and this may have contributed to rapid growth in alien populations on both sides of the Atlantic (Torchin et al., 2001).”
Can the enemy release hypothesis explain the success of invasive alien predators and parasitoids? (2011, background): “…European shore crab, Carcinus maenas L. (Decopoda: Portunidae), demonstrated that the absence of parasitic castrators was positively associated with invasion success in terms of larger body size and biomass in introduced populations compared with infected European populations (Torchin et al. 2001).”
Ecological role of large benthic decapods in marine ecosystems: a review (2012, background): “Part of its success may be due to lower rates of parasitism and larger size in its introduced range (Torchin et al. 2001).”
Competition and parasitism in the native White Clawed Crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes and the invasive Signal Crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus in the UK (2009, background): “Alternatively invading species may lose their parasites, potentially giving them an advantage over native species (Torchin et al. 2003; Torchin et al. 2001).”
Biological invasions drive size increases in marine and estuarine invertebrates (2003, background): “Second, the absence of predators or parasites in the introduced range could also result in larger body size ( Torchin et al. 2001, 2003; Mitchell & Power 2003).”
Propagule pressure: a null model for biological invasions (2006, background): “…the impact of NIS to the number of enemies present (i.e., the 'enemy release hypothesis'; (e.g. Keane and Crawley 2002; Mitchell and Power 2003; Torchin et al. 2003), or to identify 'evolutionary' changes in the mean phenotypic traits of introduced populations that may account for their…”
Growth and persistence of a recent invader Carcinus maenas in estuaries of the northeastern Pacific (2005, background): “Contributing factors could be food limitation, cannibalism and high incidence of parasitism at high crab densities in their native habitat (B€ uckmann and Adelung 1964; Torchin et al. 2001).”