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Ross N Cuthbert¹, Thomas W Bodey², Elizabeta Briski³

¹School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT9 5DL, UK.

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概括

生物入侵在全球范围内造成重大经济损害. 这项研究引入了一个新的框架,将生物特征与入侵成本联系起来,有助于预测和管理经济影响.

科学领域:

生态生态学生态生态学
进化生物学进化生物学
环境经济学环境经济学

背景情况:

生物入侵是对全球生态系统的一个主要人为威胁,造成了巨大的经济成本.
现有的基于特征的框架预测了入侵的成功和生态影响,而不是经济后果.
预测工具对于理解和管理生物入侵的经济影响至关重要.

研究的目的:

提出第一个基于特征的框架来预测生物入侵的经济影响.
为了弥合进化生物学原理与不断升级的入侵成本.
为入侵物种的成本预测和管理策略提供信息.

主要方法:

审查和综合有关生物特征及其与经济影响的联系的现有证据.
开发一个概念框架,将进化特征与入侵成本升级联系起来.
确定成本预测和管理的跨学科途径.

主要成果:

由进化过程 (自然选择,遗传漂移,表型可塑性) 影响的生物特征可以显著决定经济影响的程度.
以前获得的特征可以提高入侵者的表现,而快速的特征变化可能会加剧经济后果.
拟议的框架提供了一种新的方法,将生物特征与经济结果联系起来.

结论:

基于特征的框架对于理解和预测生物入侵的经济影响至关重要.
将进化生物学与经济评估相结合,为管理入侵成本提供了新的途径.
未来的研究应侧重于跨学科的方法,以预测和减轻入侵物种造成的经济损害.

关键词:

环境变化环境变化进化生物学是进化的生物学.侵入性外来物种的入侵性外来物种.货币影响货币影响现型性可塑性现型性可塑性

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