@article{6a513d60d11249aeabf73a8afa6df6db,
title = "A test of Darwin{\textquoteright}s naturalization conundrum in birds reveals enhanced invasion success in the presence of close relatives",
abstract = "Biological invasions pose one of the most severe environmental challenges of the twenty-first century. A longstanding idea is that invasion risk is predictable based on the phylogenetic distance – and hence ecological resemblance – between non-native and native species. However, current evidence is contradictory. To explain these mixed results, it has been proposed that the effect is scale-dependent, with invasion inhibited by phylogenetic similarity at small spatial scales but enhanced at larger scales. Analyzing invasion outcomes in a global sample of bird communities, we find no evidence to support this hypothesis. Instead, our results suggest that invaders are locally more successful in the presence of closely related and ecologically similar species, at least in human-altered environments where the majority of invasions have occurred. Functional trait analyses further confirm that the ecological niches of invaders are phylogenetically conserved, supporting the notion that successful invasion in the presence of close relatives is driven by shared adaptations to the types of niches available in novel environments.",
keywords = "alien species, biotic resistance, environmental filtering, invasion potential, risk assessment",
author = "Daniel Sol and Joan Garcia-Porta and Cesar Gonz{\'a}lez-Lagos and Pigot, {Alex L.} and Christopher Trisos and Tobias, {Joseph A.}",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to all authors who published information from field surveys, to Phillip Clergeau, Mariana Villegas and Ivan Diaz for providing unpublished data, and to Dario Moreira and Liam Revell for help with data management and analyses. For insightful comments on earlier versions of the manuscript, we thank Mar{\'i}a Moir{\'o}n, Gabriel Garcia-Pe{\~n}a, Miquel Vall-llosera and Louis Lefebvre. We also thank Natural History Museum Tring, American Museum of Natural History and numerous other research collections for access to specimens. This paper is part of the projects CGL2017-90033-P and PID2020-119514GB-I00 from the Spanish Government to DS. JGP was supported by a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship from the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity of Spain (FJCI-2014-20380). CG-L was supported by FONDECYT 11160271 and ANID PIA/BASAL FB0002, Chile. CT was supported by a FLAIR Fellowship from African Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society (UK Government{\textquoteright}s Global Challenges Research Fund). Collection of functional trait data was supported by Natural Environment Research Council grants NE/I028068/1 and NE/P004512/1 (to JAT). Funding Information: We are grateful to all authors who published information from field surveys, to Phillip Clergeau, Mariana Villegas and Ivan Diaz for providing unpublished data, and to Dario Moreira and Liam Revell for help with data management and analyses. For insightful comments on earlier versions of the manuscript, we thank Mar{\'i}a Moir{\'o}n, Gabriel Garcia‐Pe{\~n}a, Miquel Vall‐llosera and Louis Lefebvre. We also thank Natural History Museum Tring, American Museum of Natural History and numerous other research collections for access to specimens. This paper is part of the projects CGL2017‐90033‐P and PID2020‐119514GB‐I00 from the Spanish Government to DS. JGP was supported by a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship from the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity of Spain (FJCI‐2014‐20380). CG‐L was supported by FONDECYT 11160271 and ANID PIA/BASAL FB0002, Chile. CT was supported by a FLAIR Fellowship from African Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society (UK Government{\textquoteright}s Global Challenges Research Fund). Collection of functional trait data was supported by Natural Environment Research Council grants NE/I028068/1 and NE/P004512/1 (to JAT). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.",
year = "2022",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1111/ele.13899",
language = "English",
volume = "25",
pages = "661--672",
journal = "Ecology Letters",
issn = "1461-023X",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd",
number = "3",
}