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A globally-distributed alien invasive species poses risks to United States imperiled species
In the midst of Earth’s sixth mass extinction event, non-native species are a driving factor in many imperiled species’ declines. One of the most widespread and destructive alien invasive species in the world, wild pigs (Sus scrofa) threaten native species through predation, habitat destruction, com...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5871849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29593292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23657-z |
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author | McClure, Meredith L. Burdett, Christopher L. Farnsworth, Matthew L. Sweeney, Steven J. Miller, Ryan S. |
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description | In the midst of Earth’s sixth mass extinction event, non-native species are a driving factor in many imperiled species’ declines. One of the most widespread and destructive alien invasive species in the world, wild pigs (Sus scrofa) threaten native species through predation, habitat destruction, competition, and disease transmission. We show that wild pigs co-occur with up to 87.2% of imperiled species in the contiguous U.S. identified as susceptible to their direct impacts, and we project increases in both the number of species at risk and the geographic extent of risks by 2025. Wild pigs may therefore present a severe threat to U.S. imperiled species, with serious implications for management of at-risk species throughout wild pigs’ global distribution. We offer guidance for efficient allocation of research effort and conservation resources across species and regions using a simple approach that can be applied to wild pigs and other alien invasive species globally. |
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spelling | pubmed-58718492018-04-02 A globally-distributed alien invasive species poses risks to United States imperiled species McClure, Meredith L. Burdett, Christopher L. Farnsworth, Matthew L. Sweeney, Steven J. Miller, Ryan S. Sci Rep Article In the midst of Earth’s sixth mass extinction event, non-native species are a driving factor in many imperiled species’ declines. One of the most widespread and destructive alien invasive species in the world, wild pigs (Sus scrofa) threaten native species through predation, habitat destruction, competition, and disease transmission. We show that wild pigs co-occur with up to 87.2% of imperiled species in the contiguous U.S. identified as susceptible to their direct impacts, and we project increases in both the number of species at risk and the geographic extent of risks by 2025. Wild pigs may therefore present a severe threat to U.S. imperiled species, with serious implications for management of at-risk species throughout wild pigs’ global distribution. We offer guidance for efficient allocation of research effort and conservation resources across species and regions using a simple approach that can be applied to wild pigs and other alien invasive species globally. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5871849/ /pubmed/29593292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23657-z Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article McClure, Meredith L. Burdett, Christopher L. Farnsworth, Matthew L. Sweeney, Steven J. Miller, Ryan S. A globally-distributed alien invasive species poses risks to United States imperiled species |
title | A globally-distributed alien invasive species poses risks to United States imperiled species |
title_full | A globally-distributed alien invasive species poses risks to United States imperiled species |
title_fullStr | A globally-distributed alien invasive species poses risks to United States imperiled species |
title_full_unstemmed | A globally-distributed alien invasive species poses risks to United States imperiled species |
title_short | A globally-distributed alien invasive species poses risks to United States imperiled species |
title_sort | globally-distributed alien invasive species poses risks to united states imperiled species |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5871849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29593292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23657-z |
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