Understanding properties of food webs, such as their topology or stability, and the rules underlying food web structure, has been a key issue in ecology for now more than half a century. Because obtaining data on food webs has long been a hard task by itself, this research field has progressed slowly, and its dynamical aspects have seldom been empirically considered. However, technical advances, like next generation sequencing or the possibility of retrieving past ecosystems in sediment cores, have paved the way for massive data and the analysis of time series on food webs, while new models allow better predictions about food web dynamics. Making use of such existing data sets, this working group aimed at assessing the effects of biological invasions on food web topology, the fluxes of energy and nutrients throughout the network, and its ultimate effects on biodiversity. The working group has provided an integrative view on this topic, simultaneously tackling empirical, theoretical and applied aspects of biological invasions in food webs. Obvious applications will arise both from the numerous transports of invasive species and from the reshuffling of natural communities that is expected under global change scenarios. The working group comprised theoreticians and empiricists, biological invasion specialists as well as food web and host-parasite network experts, and benefited from existing experience in the field of ecoinformatics and massive data management in ecology.
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Coreids massol 171107
1. COREIDS
Predicting community resilience to invasions
from diversity and network structure
2014 – 2017
Project leaders: Patrice DAVID & François MASSOL
Post-docs: Grégory MOLLOT & Jelena PANTEL
2. Rabbit
Orycolagus cuniculus
Water lily
Eicchornia crassipes
Nile perch
Lates niloticus
Zebra mussel
Dreissena polymorpha
A worldwide revolution in
ecosystems and a major
component of global
change
Concerns all kinds of
organisms and habitats
Large impacts on
biodiversity but largely
unpredictable
biodiversity.europa.eu
Biological invasions
3. Networks of species interactions
Impacts of invasions
depend on interactions
with resident species
Interactions are organized
in networks (e.g. food
webs)
What properties make
networks sensitive to
invasion?
4. COREIDS project summary
• Assess the effects of invaders on biodiversity
• Understand which food webs are more likely
to be invaded
• Predict the effects of invaders based on
invaded food web and invader properties
• Reveal perturbation synergies between
anthropogenic pressures and invasions
5. The COREIDS group
A group of scientists
working on invasions
and/or networks in
France, Canada, New
Zealand
Field biologists,
experimental biologists,
statisticians, theoreticians
Syntheses, meta-analysis,
modelling
7. The COREIDS timeline
01/09/2014
2015 2016 20172014
meetings
finalreport
G. Mollot
J. Pantel
midreport
Advances in Ecological Research issues 56 & 57
N. Poulain
8. The COREIDS meetings
Four meetings (Jan 2015, Sept 2015, March 2016 & Oct 2016)
At the CESAB
9-13 persons per meeting (total = 19)
Meeting #1: presentations, general discussions
Meeting #2: preparation of AER 56-57, tentative chapters
Meeting #3: update & work on chapters (small groups)
Meeting #4: updates on theoretical projects, presentations
13. Four types of local impacts of
invaders on food webs
I
1. Top-down
Invasive
predator
Resident
prey
Euglandina rosea
(predatory “wolf” snail)
Endemic
Partula spp
(tree
snails)
Direct predation is responsible for most
species extinctions following invasions
(Moorea island)
R
14. Four types of local impacts of
invaders on food webs
I
R1
2. Exploitative
competition
R2
Invasive
species
Resident
prey
Resident
competitor
Locally
cultivated
fruit
(La Réunion island)
Endemic
Ceratitis catoirii
C. Capitata
Introd 1939
15. Four types of local impacts of
invaders on food webs
I
R1
2. Exploitative
competition
R2
Invasive
species
Resident
prey
Resident
competitor
Locally
cultivated
fruit
(La Réunion island)
Endemic
Ceratitis catoirii C. Capitata
Introd 1939
C. rosa
Introd 1955
16. Four types of local impacts of
invaders on food webs
I
R1
2. Exploitative
competition
R2
Invasive
species
Resident
prey
Resident
competitor Endemic
Ceratitis catoirii
C. Capitata
Introd 1939
Locally
cultivated
fruit
C. rosa
Introd 1955
Bactrocera zonata
Introd 1991
- Invasive competitors often arrive in successive series
- Resident species are reduced or displaced more often than they go extinct
(La Réunion island)
17. Four types of local impacts of
invaders on food webs
R
3. Bottom-up
- Resident predators may limit populations of invasive species (biotic resistance)
- Invasive species usually have positive effects on their predators
Invasive Gobies
Neogobius melanostomus
Endemic water snake
Nerodia sipedon insularum
(Lake Erie)
I
Invasive
prey
Resident
predator
18. Four types of local impacts of
invaders on food webs
3. Bottom-up
- Invasive species usually have positive effects on their predators
- … but these benefits are sometimes outweighed by competition with more profitable
resident prey
- This situation is common with invasive plants e.g. Caulerpa taxifolia, Rubus alceifolius
>> herbivore diversity decreases
R2
Resident
competitor
Horned Lizard
Phrynosoma coronatum
Argentine ant
Linepithema humile
Native ant
Crematogaster californica
(California)
R
Invasive
prey
Resident
predator
I
19. Four types of local impacts of
invaders on food webs
4. Apparent
competition
Golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
Island fox
Urocyon littoralis
Feral pig
Sus scrofa
- Invasive species may benefit local generalist predators and indirectly affect local
species
(California channel islands)
R2
Resident
prey
R
Invasive
prey
Resident
predator
I
20. • ASYMMETRY: Invaders tend to
have more impact (often strong) on
natives than natives have on
invaders; they are fiercer
predators, better-defended prey,
and stronger competitors
The filter hypothesis
21. Predation
efficiency
coevolved
Not coevolved
Frequency
Example of predator introduction
• ASYMMETRY: Invaders tend to have
more impact (often strong) on
natives than natives have on
invaders; they are fiercer predators,
better-defended prey, and stronger
competitors
• LACK OF COEVOLUTION: Invaders
and residents are evolutionary naive
to each other : their interactions
may often be extreme
• FILTER: Only species that happen to
be tolerant to resident species
successfully invade
• Major outcomes
The filter hypothesis
22. • ASYMMETRY: Invaders tend to
have more impact (often strong) on
natives than natives have on
invaders; they are fiercer
predators, better-defended prey,
and stronger competitors
• LACK OF COEVOLUTION:
Invaders and residents are
evolutionary naive to each other :
their interactions may often be
extreme
• FILTER: Only species that happen
to be tolerant to resident species
successfully invade
• Major outcomes
Predation
efficiency
coevolved
Not coevolved
Mean
natives
Invasion
fails
Invasion
succeeds
Mean
invaders
Frequency
Example of predator introduction
The filter hypothesis
24. Theoretical predictions
• Theoretical models: construction of model food webs by
addition of species and evolution of trophic traits (e.g. body
size) or classic models of food web simulation (niche model)
• Introduce virtual invaders, measure probability of success
and impact
• Diversity >> filling of niche space >> fewer invasions and
lower impacts
• Connectance: decrease probability of invasion, but potentially
more negative effects if invasion succeeds
26. Theoretical predictions
Distribution of robustness (=% of persistent species after invasion attempt) by
connectance & by type of invader
All impacts
At least one species
lost
28. Empirical data: Three cases of far-reaching
impact of species introduction
1) Trophic
cascades in lakes
Favored by the relatively low
diversity and high efficiency
of primary consumption of
phytoplankton
(unlike in many plant-based
terrestrial ecosystems)
http://www.lmvp.org
29. Empirical data: Three cases of far-reaching
impact of species introduction
2) Disequilibrium
- Recent human modification:
eutrophication, elimination of top
predators, replacement of native
forest by agriculture or secondary
habitat >> low diversity, lots of
unexploited resource
- Evolutionary immaturity: remote
islands lacking particular groups
>> idem
http://www.lmvp.org
Guam island
Tree snake
Boiga irregularis
30. Empirical data: Three cases of far-reaching
impact of species introduction
3) Ecosystem
engineering
- Large modification of habitat:
sessile filter-feeders; water
clarification, creation of habitats
- Attracts many new species,
limits many others, deeply
reorganizes energy and matter
fluxes in lake ecosystem
(pelagic >> benthic)
http://ian.umces.edu
Zebra mussel
Great Lakes
34. Lessons for ecosystem conservation
• Fight against causes of invasions rather than invasions
themselves: pollution, perturbation, predator removal
• Islands are hypersensitive due to past isolation: prevent
introductions, especially of generalist predators
• Eradication is usually costly and ineffective: resident
communities often change ecologically and evolutionarily after
invasions, there is often no way back. Look for mitigation
rather than eradication.