Global terrestrial invasions: Where naturalised birds, mammals, and plants might spread next and what affects this process.

ABSTRACT: More species live outside their native range than at any point in human history. Yet, there is little understanding of the geographic regions that will be threatened if these species continue to spread, nor of whether they will spread. We predict the world's terrestrial regions to which 833 naturalised plants, birds, and mammals are most imminently likely to spread, and investigate what factors have hastened or slowed their spread to date. There is huge potential for further spread of naturalised birds in North America, mammals in Eastern Europe, and plants in North America, Eastern Europe, and Australia. Introduction history, dispersal, and the spatial distribution of suitable areas are more important predictors of species spread than traits corresponding to habitat usage or biotic intera

SUBMITTER: Hakkinen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10645288 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature