Propagule pressure increase and phylogenetic diversity decrease community's susceptibility to invasion.
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SUBMITTER: Ketola T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5387184 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
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Propagule pressure increase and phylogenetic diversity decrease community's susceptibility to invasion.
Ketola T T Saarinen K K Lindström L L
BMC ecology 20170411 1
<h4>Background</h4>Invasions pose a large threat to native species, but the question of why some species are more invasive, and some communities more prone to invasions than others, is far from solved. Using 10 different three-species bacterial communities, we tested experimentally if the phylogenetic relationships between an invader and a resident community and the propagule pressure affect invasion probability.<h4>Results</h4>We found that greater diversity in phylogenetic distances between th ...[more]
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