Predicting ecological impacts of the invasive brush-clawed shore crab under environmental change.

ABSTRACT: Globally, the number of invasive non-indigenous species is continually rising, representing a major driver of biodiversity declines and a growing socio-economic burden. Hemigrapsus takanoi, the Japanese brush-clawed shore crab, is a highly successful invader in European seas. However, the ecological consequences of this invasion have remained unexamined under environmental changes-such as climatic warming and desalination, which are projected in the Baltic Sea-impeding impact prediction and management. Recently, the comparative functional response (resource use across resource densities) has been pioneered as a reliable approach to quantify and predict the ecological impacts of invasive non-indigenous species under environmental contexts. This study investigated the functional response of

SUBMITTER: Theurich N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9200808 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature