A potential role for phenotypic plasticity in invasions and declines of social insects

F Manfredini, M Arbetman, AL Toth - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Eusociality, a form of animal social organization involving sterile and reproductive castes, is
a rare, but highly ecologically successful form of life. There are striking examples of eusocial …

Restoring vertebrate predator populations can provide landscape‐scale biological control of established invasive vertebrates: Insights from pine marten recovery in …

JP Twining, C Lawton, A White, E Sheehy… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive species pose one of the greatest global threats to biodiversity. There has been a
long history of importing coevolved natural enemies to act as biological control agents to try …

Wildfire selectivity for land cover type: does size matter?

AMG Barros, JMC Pereira - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Previous research has shown that fires burn certain land cover types disproportionally to
their abundance. We used quantile regression to study land cover proneness to fire as a …

Preference and prey switching in a generalist predator attacking local and invasive alien pests

CC Jaworski, A Bompard, L Genies… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Invasive pest species may strongly affect biotic interactions in agro-ecosystems. The ability
of generalist predators to prey on new invasive pests may result in drastic changes in the …

Sharing a predator: can an invasive alien pest affect the predation on a local pest?

A Bompard, CC Jaworski, P Bearez, N Desneux - Population Ecology, 2013 - Springer
Invasive species can strongly affect biotic interactions in ecosystems, interacting both
directly and indirectly with local species. In European tomato greenhouses, the invasive …

Novel and disrupted trophic links following invasion in freshwater ecosystems

MC Jackson, RJ Wasserman, J Grey, A Ricciardi… - Advances in ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
When invasive species become integrated within a food web, they may have numerous
direct and indirect impacts on the native community by creating novel trophic links, and …

[PDF][PDF] The invasive American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) in the Republic of Korea: history and recommendations for population control.

J Groffen, S Kong, Y Jang, A Borzée - Management of Biological …, 2019 - reabic.net
Abstract The American bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus, has been introduced to all
continents with suitable environments and most populations are now viable. This is also the …

Not everything is black and white: color and behavioral variation reveal a continuum between cryptic and aposematic strategies in a polymorphic poison frog

B Willink, E Brenes-Mora, F Bolaños, H Pröhl - Evolution, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Aposematism and crypsis are often viewed as two extremes of a continuum of visual
conspicuousness to predators. Theory predicts that behavioral and coloration …

Declining invasive grey squirrel populations may persist in refugia as native predator recovery reverses squirrel species replacement

JP Twining, WI Montgomery… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive species pose one of the most serious global threats to biodiversity. Investigations
into the interactions of native and non‐native species focus on the impacts of single species …

DNA metabarcoding reveals introduced species predominate in the diet of a threatened endemic omnivore, Telfair's skink (Leiolopisma telfairii)

MPTG Tercel, RJ Moorhouse‐Gann… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduced species can exert disproportionately negative effects on island ecosystems, but
their potential role as food for native consumers is poorly studied. Telfair's skinks are …