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Emmi Räsänen
The effect of environmental fluctuations on the invasion success of bacterial invader Serratia marcescens
Ilmastonmuutoksen on odotettu lisäävän ympäristöolosuhteissa tapahtuvien vaihteluiden määrää. Teorian mukaan nämä vaihtelut voisivat lisätä vieraslajien levittäytymistä uusille alueille, mikäli ne vaikuttavat ekologisiin ja evolutiivisiin prosesseihin, jotka tekevät lajeista menestyksekkäitä vieraslajeja sekä paikallisista eliöyhteisöistä ja ympäristöistä alttiimpia levittäytymiselle. Häiriöherkkien alueiden on oletettu olevan otollisia levittäytymiselle, minkä lisäksi vieraslajit ovat voineet valmiiksi sopeutua sietämään vaihtelevia olosuhteita alkuperäisalueellaan. Nopeasti vaihtelevissa ympäristöolosuhteissa luonnonvalinta voi suosia ominaisuuksia, kuten generalismia, joka auttaa eliöitä…
Environmental Fluctuations Drive Species' Competitive Success in Experimental Invasions
Climate change is presumed to increase both the number and frequency of fluctuations in environmental conditions. Fluctuations can affect the ecological and evolutionary processes that make species more successful competitors. For example, fluctuating conditions can create selection pressures for traits that are profitable in adaptation to fast climate change. On an ecological timescale, environmental fluctuations can facilitate species competitive success by reducing other species’ population sizes. Climate change could then enhance species invasions into new areas if fluctuation-adapted invaders displace their native competitors in chancing environments. We tested experimentally whether f…
The effect of environmental fluctuations – Could climate change promote species’ invasion success?
The global climate change is presumed to increase the amount of fluctuations in the environmental conditions. This could increase the amount of species invasion into new areas if fluctuations affect the ecological and evolutionary processes that make species successful as invaders, and native communities and their environments more susceptible to invasions1. Disturbed environments are assumed to be more prone to invasions and the fluctuations in invasive species’ home range could pre-adapt them to tolerate similar conditions elsewhere. Under fluctuating conditions, natural selection could potentially favor traits like generalism, which is profitable in adaptation to wide range of conditions…