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SUBMITTER: Garcia K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7460352 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
García Karla K Sanpera Carola C Jover Lluís L Palazón Santiago S Gosálbez Joaquim J Górski Konrad K Melero Yolanda Y
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20200810 8
The pressure elicited by invasive species on native species significantly increases with the increase of the overlap of their ecological niches. Still, the specific mechanisms of the trophic displacement of native species during the invasion process are unclear. The effects of the invasive American mink (<i>Neovison vison</i>) on the critically endangered European mink (<i>Mustela lutreola</i>) was assessed by analyses of diet and niche overlap during the invasion process. To do this, the isotop ...[more]