Journal article
Realized niche shift during a global biological invasion
Reid Tingley, Marcelo Vallinoto, Fernando Sequeira, Michael R Kearney
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | NATL ACAD SCIENCES | Published : 2014
Abstract
Accurate forecasts of biological invasions are crucial for managing invasion risk but are hampered by niche shifts resulting from evolved environmental tolerances (fundamental niche shifts) or the presence of novel biotic and abiotic conditions in the invaded range (realized niche shifts). Distinguishing between these kinds of niche shifts is impossible with traditional, correlative approaches to invasion forecasts, which exclusively consider the realized niche. Here we overcome this challenge by combining a physiologically mechanistic model of the fundamental niche with correlative models based on the realized niche to study the global invasion of the cane toad Rhinella marina. We find stro..
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Awarded by Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia under the Programa Operacional Potencial Humano-Quadro de Referencia Estrategico Nacional funds from the European Social Fund
Awarded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Tecnologia/Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico, Brazil
Awarded by Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia - Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional through the Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade program
Funding Acknowledgements
J. J. Kolbe and B. L. Phillips kindly provided data on locomotor performance of Australian R. marina used in Fig. S4. B. L. Phillips, R. Shine, and J. Elith provided distribution data and made comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript. O. Broennimann provided scripts for calculating niche changes. Funding was provided by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship, an Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, a University of Sydney International Postgraduate Award, and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (to R.T.); a postdoctoral grant (SFRH/BPD/87721/2012) from Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia under the Programa Operacional Potencial Humano-Quadro de Referencia Estrategico Nacional funds from the European Social Fund and Portuguese Ministerio da Educacao e Ciencia (to F. S.); a researcher fellowship from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico, Brazil (to M. V.); and an Australian Research Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (to M.R.K.). Additional funding was provided by Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior, Brazil; project (Ministerio de Ciencia e Tecnologia/Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico, Brazil 14-2010 and 473313/2013-8), and Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia through the research project PTDC/BIA-BEC/105093/2008 (funded by Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional through the Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade program and Portuguese national funds).