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The invasive species are likely to spread to a community that has not adapted to climate change.
https://www.jyu.fi/en/current/archive/2019/02/the-invasive-species-are-likely-to-spread-to-a-community-that-has-not-adapted-to-climate-change18.02.2019
The invasive species are likely to spread to a community that has not adapted to climate change.
Climate change increases environmental fluctuations and extreme weather phenomena. They generate many kinds of problems in the nature. A study conducted at the University of Jyväskylä has shown that varying environmental conditions increase the potential for invasive species to spread.
Invasive species are species that spread to new areas as a result of human activity and can displace local species and be harmful in addition to nature also to forestry and agriculture.
Laboratory experiment indicated that alien species are most likely to invade under varying environmental conditions. The risk of invasions will increase further if the local species community has not adapted to the variation.
“It is very difficult to study and test species adaptation in natural populations, because adapting to different environments takes time. This is why we decided to use bacteria as a test species. Conditions during invasion are easily manipulated and we can also create strains of bacteria that have or have not adapted to environmental conditions. This versality of the system gives us possiblity to study different sorts of theoretical scenarios of invasions very efficiently. In the wild such phenomena are nearly impossible to study in detail” says academy research fellow Tarmo Ketola from the University of Jyväskylä.
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https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1348-9The invasive species are likely to spread to a community that has not adapted to climate change.
Climate change increases environmental fluctuations and extreme weather phenomena. They generate many kinds of problems in the nature. A study conducted at the University of Jyväskylä has shown that varying environmental conditions increase the potential for invasive species to spread.
Invasive species are species that spread to new areas as a result of human activity and can displace local species and be harmful in addition to nature also to forestry and agriculture.
Laboratory experiment indicated that alien species are most likely to invade under varying environmental conditions. The risk of invasions will increase further if the local species community has not adapted to the variation.
“It is very difficult to study and test species adaptation in natural populations, because adapting to different environments takes time. This is why we decided to use bacteria as a test species. Conditions during invasion are easily manipulated and we can also create strains of bacteria that have or have not adapted to environmental conditions. This versality of the system gives us possiblity to study different sorts of theoretical scenarios of invasions very efficiently. In the wild such phenomena are nearly impossible to study in detail” says academy research fellow Tarmo Ketola from the University of Jyväskylä.
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