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T1 MtDNA metagenomics reveals large-scale invasion of belowground arthropod communities by introduced species
A1 Cicconardi, Francesco
A1 Borges, Paulo A. V.
A1 Strasberg, Dominique
A1 Oromí, Pedro
A1 López, Heriberto
A1 Pérez-Delgado, Antonio J.
A1 Casquet, Juliane
A1 Caujapé‑Castells, Juli
A1 Fernández-Palacios, José María
A1 Thébaud, Christophe
A1 Emerson, Brent C.
K1 introduced species
K1 invertebrate
K1 island biogeography
K1 mesofauna
K1 soil
AB Using a series of standardized sampling plots within forest ecosystems in remote oceanicislands, we reveal fundamental differences between the structuring of abovegroundand belowground arthropod biodiversity that are likely due to large-scalespecies introductions by humans. Species of beetle and spider were sampled almostexclusively from single islands, while soil-dwelling Collembola exhibited more thantenfold higher species sharing among islands. Comparison of Collembola mitochondrialmetagenomic data to a database of more than 80 000 Collembola barcodesequences revealed almost 30% of sampled island species are genetically identical, ornear identical, to individuals sampled from often very distant geographic regions ofthe world. Patterns of mtDNA relatedness among Collembola implicate humanmediatedspecies introductions, with minimum estimates for the proportion of introducedspecies on the sampled islands ranging from 45% to 88%. Our results call formore attention to soil mesofauna to understand the global extent and ecological consequencesof species introductions.
PB John Wiley & Sons Ltd
YR 2017
FD 2017
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RD 03-may-2024