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      Alien polychaete species worldwide: current status and their impacts

      Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
      Cambridge University Press (CUP)

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              Linking climate change and biological invasions: Ocean warming facilitates nonindigenous species invasions.

              The spread of exotic species and climate change are among the most serious global environmental threats. Each independently causes considerable ecological damage, yet few data are available to assess whether changing climate might facilitate invasions by favoring introduced over native species. Here, we compare our long-term record of weekly sessile marine invertebrate recruitment with interannual variation in water temperature to assess the likely effect of climate change on the success and spread of introduced species. For the three most abundant introduced species of ascidian (sea squirt), the timing of the initiation of recruitment was strongly negatively correlated with winter water temperature, indicating that invaders arrived earlier in the season in years with warmer winters. Total recruitment of introduced species during the following summer also was positively correlated with winter water temperature. In contrast, the magnitude of native ascidian recruitment was negatively correlated with winter temperature (more recruitment in colder years) and the timing of native recruitment was unaffected. In manipulative laboratory experiments, two introduced compound ascidians grew faster than a native species, but only at temperatures near the maximum observed in summer. These data suggest that the greatest effects of climate change on biotic communities may be due to changing maximum and minimum temperatures rather than annual means. By giving introduced species an earlier start, and increasing the magnitude of their growth and recruitment relative to natives, global warming may facilitate a shift to dominance by nonnative species, accelerating the homogenization of the global biota.
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                Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
                J. Mar. Biol. Ass.
                Cambridge University Press (CUP)
                0025-3154
                1469-7769
                August 2013
                November 26 2012
                August 2013
                : 93
                : 05
                : 1257-1278
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                10.1017/S0025315412001646
                54ebeeb9-a796-49a7-a210-b33116bac972
                © 2013
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