Insights from modeling studies on how climate change affects invasive alien species geography.

ABSTRACT: Climate change and biological invasions are threatening biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide. It has now been widely acknowledged that climate change will affect biological invasions. A large number of studies have investigated predicted shifts and other changes in the geographic ranges of invasive alien species related to climate change using modeling approaches. Yet these studies have provided contradictory evidence, and no consensus has been reached. We conducted a systematic review of 423 modeling case studies included in 71 publications that have examined the predicted effects of climate change on those species. We differentiate the approaches used in these studies and synthesize their main results. Our results reaffirm the major role of climate change as a driver of invasive

SUBMITTER: Bellard C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6010883 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature