Alien species as a driver of recent extinctions

作者：Céline Bellard, Phillip Cassey, Tim M. Blackburn · 发表于：Biology Letters · 年份：2016 · DOI：10.1098/rsbl.2015.0623 · 被引用次数：1435 · 研究领域：Wildlife Ecology and Conservation、Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies、Species Distribution and Climate Change

We assessed the prevalence of alien species as a driver of recent extinctions in five major taxa (plants, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals), using data from the IUCN Red List. Our results show that alien species are the second most common threat associated with species that have gone completely extinct from these taxa since AD 1500. Aliens are the most common threat associated with extinctions in three of the five taxa analysed, and for vertebrate extinctions overall.