Research on mutualisms between native and non-native partners can contribute critical ecological insights
dc.contributor.author | Aslan, Clare E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Sikes, Benjamin A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Gedan, Keryn B. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-29T20:33:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-10-29T20:33:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-07-23 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Aslan CE, Sikes BA, Gedan KB (2015) Research on mutualisms between native and non-native partners can contribute critical ecological insights. NeoBiota 26: 39-54. doi: 10.3897/neobiota.26.8837 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18754 | |
dc.description.abstract | Mutualisms are important structuring forces in ecological communities, influencing ecosystem functions, diversity, and evolutionary trajectories. New interactions, particularly between native and non-native species, are globally increasing in biotic communities as species introductions accelerate. Positive interactions such as novel mutualisms can affect the fitness of organisms in invaded communities. Non-natives can augment native mutualism networks, replace extinct native partners, or disrupt native mutualisms. Because they are actively forming or newly formed, novel mutualisms offer a unique opportunity to examine in real time the factors governing early mutualism formation and stability, including frequency-dependent processes and those relying on specific traits or functions. These central ecological questions have been inferred from long-formed mutualisms, but novel mutualisms may allow a glimpse of successes and failures in ecological time with insights into the relative importance of these factors as ecological systems shift. To this end, this commentary addresses how novel mutualisms inform our understanding of mutualism formation, stability, the importance of functional traits, and niche vs. neutral processes, using examples across multiple systems. Novel mutualism research thus far has been largely limited in both questions and ecosystems, but if more broadly applied could benefit both theoretical and applied ecology. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Pensoft Publishers | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2015 Clare E. Aslan, Benjamin A. Sikes, Keryn B. Gedan. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Positive interactions | en_US |
dc.subject | Marine | en_US |
dc.subject | Belowground | en_US |
dc.subject | Biological invasions | en_US |
dc.subject | non-native species | en_US |
dc.subject | Novel mutualisms | en_US |
dc.title | Research on mutualisms between native and non-native partners can contribute critical ecological insights | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Sikes, Benjamin A. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3897/neobiota.26.8837 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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