@article {5492, title = {Insights from modeling studies on how climate change affects invasive alien species geography}, journal = {Ecology and Evolution}, year = {2018}, month = {05/2018}, pages = {1-13}, 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 alien species distribution in the future. We found biases in the literature both regarding the taxa, toward plants and invertebrates, and the areas of the planet investigated. Despite these biases, we found for the plants and vertebrates studied that climate change will more frequently contribute to a decrease in species range size than an increase in the overall area occupied. This is largely due to oceans preventing terrestrial invaders from spreading poleward. In contrast, we found that the ranges of invertebrates and pathogens studied are more likely to increase following climate change. An important caveat to these findings is that researchers have rarely considered the effects of climate change on transport, introduction success, or the resulting impacts. We recommend closing these research gaps, and propose additional avenues for future investigations, as well as opportunities and challenges for managing invasions under climate change.}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4098}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ece3.4098}, author = {Bellard, C{\'e}line and Jeschke, Jonathan M and Leroy, Boris and Mace, Georgina M} } @article {5283, title = {A global picture of biological invasion threat on islands.}, journal = {Nature Ecology \& Evolution}, volume = {1}, year = {2017}, month = {11/2017}, pages = {1862-1869}, abstract = {

Biological invasions are among the main drivers of biodiversity losses. As threats from biological invasions increase, one of the most urgent tasks is to identify areas of high vulnerability. However, the lack of comprehensive information on the impacts of invasive alien species (IAS) is a problem especially on islands, where most of the recorded extinctions associated with IAS have occurred. Here we provide a global, network-oriented analysis of IAS on islands. Using network analysis, we structured 27,081 islands and 437 threatened vertebrates into 21 clusters, based on their profiles in term of invasiveness and shared vulnerabilities. These islands are mainly located in the Southern Hemisphere and many are in biodiversity hotspots. Some of the islands share similar characteristics regarding their connectivity that could be useful for understanding their response to invasive species. The major invaders found in these clusters of islands are feral cats, feral dogs, pigs and rats. Our analyses reveal those IAS that systematically act alone or in combination, and the pattern of shared IAS among threatened species, providing new information to implement effective eradication strategies. Combined with further local, contextual information this can contribute to global strategies to deal with IAS.

}, doi = {10.1038/s41559-017-0365-6}, url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0365-6}, author = {Bellard, C{\'e}line and Rysman, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois and Leroy, Boris and Claud, C and Mace, Georgina M} }