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SUBMITTER: Higgins SI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4115511 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Higgins Steven I SI Richardson David M DM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140702 29
Invasive species cost the global economy billions of dollars each year, but ecologists have struggled to predict the risk of an introduced species naturalizing and invading. Although carefully designed experiments are needed to fully elucidate what makes some species invasive, much can be learned from unintentional experiments involving the introduction of species beyond their native ranges. Here, we assess invasion risk by linking a physiologically based species distribution model with data on ...[more]