Patterns and drivers of climatic niche dynamics during biological invasions of island-endemic amphibians, reptiles, and birds.

ABSTRACT: Shifts between native and alien climatic niches pose a major challenge for predicting biological invasions. This is particularly true for insular species because geophysical barriers could constrain the realization of their fundamental niches, which may lead to underestimates of their invasion potential. To investigate this idea, we estimated the frequency of shifts between native and alien climatic niches and the magnitude of climatic mismatches using 80,148 alien occurrences of 46 endemic insular amphibian, reptile, and bird species. Then, we assessed the influence of nine potential predictors on climatic mismatches across taxa, based on species' characteristics, native range physical characteristics, and alien range properties. We found that climatic mismatch is common during invasions

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Rodriguez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10946511 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature