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研究显示陆地植物入侵中罕见气候生态位变化
发布时间: 2012-03-16  

Climatic Niche Shifts Are Rare Among Terrestrial Plant Invaders
Blaise Petitpierre, from University of Lausanne,Switzerland, has newly published a paper on Science, with his colleagues.
Abstract: The assumption that climatic niche requirements of invasive species are conserved between their native and invaded ranges is key to predicting the risk of invasion. However, this assumption has been challenged recently by evidence of niche shifts in some species. Here, we report the first large-scale test of niche conservatism for 50 terrestrial plant invaders between Eurasia, North America, and Australia. We show that when analog climates are compared between regions, fewer than 15% of species have more than 10% of their invaded distribution outside their native climatic niche. These findings reveal that substantial niche shifts are rare in terrestrial plant invaders, providing support for an appropriate use of ecological niche models for the prediction of both biological invasions and responses to climate change.
For more details, please visit http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6074/1344.full.pdf
信息来源:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6074/1344.abstract [2012-03-16]
摘编人:李东升

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