Heterogeneity of patterns and processes along biological invasion successions

• Applicant: Professor Thorsten Reusch, Ph.D., since 1/2014
• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems ; Evolution, Anthropology ; Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
• Term: from 2013 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 243421602

• Final Report Year: 2018

Final Report Abstract

Biological invasions occur when barriers limiting species distributions are broken-down, allowing species to extend beyond their natural range areas. In the last century, rates of biological invasions severely increased due to human activities, and are major components of global changes, sometimes generating severe economical and societal disequilibrium. The ecological and evolutionary dynamics over the course of invasion remain to be elucidated in order to predict future patterns of invasion. PROBIS aimed at identifying relevant phenotypic and genetic traits that underpin a species ability to invade a new environment. PROBIS innovatively scaled down to the intraspecific level to identify these relevant biological traits. To do so, this pan-European project combined field surveys, genomic tools, large-scale semi-natural experiments and computational modeling on three model organisms (i.e. a fish, a parasite and a dragonfly) that have clear ecological and socio-economic impacts. The coupling of all these approaches allowed us to identify a suite of phenotypic traits, in each species, differing between recent and older populations, the mechanisms underlying these differences and their consequences on a large spatio-temporal scale. The ultimate goal of PROBIS has been to provide stakeholders with a predictive toolbox, using these biological parameters, to better forecast the success and rate of invasion of potential invasive species and develop mitigation strategies accordingly.

Publications

• (2018) The Missing Response to Selection in the Wild. Trends in ecology & evolution 33 (5) 337–346
  Pujol, Benoit; Blanchet, Simon; Charmantier, Anne; Danchin, Etienne; Facon, Benoit; Marrot, Pascal; Roux, Fabrice; Scotti, Ivan; Teplitsky, Céline; Thomson, Caroline E.; Winney, Isabel
  
• (2015). Elucidating the spatio-temporal dynamics of an emerging wildlife pathogen using approximate Bayesian computation. Molecular Ecology, 24(21), 5348–5363
  Rey O., Fourtune L., Paz-Vinas I., Loot G., Veyssière C., Roche B., & Blanchet S.
  
• (2015). Evidence of threat to European economy and biodiversity following the introduction of an alien pathogen on the fungal–animal boundary. Emerging Microbes & Infections, 4(9), e52
  Ercan, D., Andreou, D., Sana, S., Öntaş, C., Baba, E., Top, N., Karagus U., Tarkan A.S & Gozlan, R. E.
  
• (2015). Habitat matching and spatial heterogeneity of phenotypes: implications for metapopulation and metacommunity functioning. Evolutionary Ecology, 29(6), 851–871
  Jacob, S., Bestion, E., Legrand, D., Clobert, J., & Cote, J.
  
• (2016). Local adaptation drives thermal tolerance among parasite populations: a common garden experiment. Proc. R. Soc. B, 283(1830), 20160587
  Mazé-Guilmo, E., Blanchet, S., Rey, O., Canto, N., & Loot, G.
  
• (2016). Predicting global invasion risks: a management tool to prevent future introductions. Scientific Reports, 6, 26316
  Fletcher, D. H., Gillingham, P. K., Britton, J. R., Blanchet, S., & Gozlan, R. E.
  
• (2017). Behavioural synchronization of large-scale animal movements – disperse alone, but migrate together? Biological Reviews, 92(3), 1275–1296
  Cote, J., Bocedi, G., Debeffe, L., Chudzińska, M. E., Weigang, H. C., Dytham, C., Gonzalez G., Matthysen E., Travis J., Baguette M. & Hewison, A. J. M.
  
• (2017). Early Engagement of Stakeholders with Individual-Based Modeling Can Inform Research for Improving Invasive Species Management: The Round Goby as a Case Study. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5
  Samson, E., Hirsch, P. E., Palmer, S. C. F., Behrens, J. W., Brodin, T., & Travis, J. M. J.
  
• (2017). Eco-evolutionary dynamics in fragmented landscapes. Ecography, 40(1), 9–25
  Legrand, D., Cote, J., Fronhofer, E. A., Holt, R. D., Ronce, O., Schtickzelle, N., Travis J. & Clobert, J.
  
• (2017). Non-random dispersal mediates invader impacts on the invertebrate community. Journal of Animal Ecology, 86(6), 1298–1307
  Cote, J., Brodin, T., Fogarty, S., & Sih, A.
  
• ote, J., Bestion, E., Jacob, S., Travis, J., Legrand, D., & Baguette, M. (2017). Evolution of dispersal strategies and dispersal syndromes in fragmented landscapes. Ecography, 40(1), 56–73
  Cote, J., Bestion, E., Jacob, S., Travis, J., Legrand, D., & Baguette, M.
  
• (2018) Reconciling the biogeography of an invader through recent and historic genetic patterns : the case of topmouth gudgeon Pseudorasbora parva. Biological Invasions. 20, Issue 8, pp 2157–2171
  Hardouin E., Andreou D., Yahui Z., Chevret P., Fletcher D., Britton J.R, Tautz D., Gozlan R.E.