Nuclear winter was and is debatable

Abstract

Drawing from the natural history and evolutionary ecology of various organisms, these works propose a set of four guidelines to identify organisms with high invasive potential. These guidelines consider factors such as reproductive and dispersal rates, phylogenetic relatedness to the food and predators in the new environment, and the lack of natural enemies in the new range. The authors illustrate the applicability of these guidelines using the example of the red turpentine beetle’s invasion in China and discuss their implications for managing invasive species. – AI-generated abstract.