Climatic Niche Shifts During Biological Invasions Decrease With Genetic Diversity Loss.

Abstract excerpt

Climate niche conservatism is a fundamental assumption for predicting biological invasion risks and species range expansion under climate change. However, increasing evidence across taxa has revealed climatic niche shifts in species within new ranges. Although considerable effort has been made to identify ecological predictors of climatic niche shifts, the genetic process underlying species adaptation to novel...

Topics

• Animals
• Genetic Variation
• Introduced Species
• Climate Change
• Ecosystem
• Vertebrates