Realized niche shift of an invasive widow spider: drivers and impacts of human activities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Predicting invasiveness requires an understanding of the propensity of a given species to thrive in areas with novel ecological challenges. Evaluation of realized niche shift of an invasive species in its invasive range, detecting the main drivers of the realized niche shift, and predicting the potential distribution of the species can provide important information for the management of populations of invasive species and the conservation of biodiversity. The Australian redback spider, Latrodectus hasselti, is a widow spider that is native to Australia and established in Japan, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. We used ecological niche models and ordinal comparisons in an integrative method to compare the realized niches of native and invasive populations of this spider s

SUBMITTER: Luo Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9617396 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature